January, 2005

The Enterprise Library was released this weekend, and if you like the idea of avoiding reinventing the wheel, you should definitely take a look. Enterprise Library is a collection of seven reusable and extensible application blocks for enterprise .NET...

http://www.makezine.com/ is a new project from O'Reilly (full disclosure: I wrote a book on ASP.NET for O'Reilly, so I'm not an entirely disinterested observer) that should appeal to the inner geek in all of us. Make brings the do-it-yourself mindset...

I found a trackback to my recent post wishing for 2005 to be the Year of Least Privilege, and unfortunately, the response repeats one of the major misconceptions of Least Privilege user accounts: G. Andrew Duthie asks: " Will 2005 be the year of Least...

My thanks to all who came out for my presentation with Aaron Margosis last night at the Capital Area .NET Users Group . We had around 30 people, and Aaron and I quite enjoyed the strong interaction with the attendees. Hopefully, we convinced some folks...

Received from the VSTS team: VSTS Team Foundation Public Chat January 26, 2005 5:30 - 6:30 P.M. Pacific time Add to Calendar January 27, 2005 8:00 - 9:00 A.M. Pacific time Add to Calendar Chat with members of the Team Foundation team of Visual Studio...

Semi-non-technical post... A group of internationally recognized experts in .NET development have come up with a good way to provide additional support for the victims of the recent tsunami...sell themselves (well, their consulting services, at least...

Want to find out more about developing secure software, and learn how to sell your management on the importance of security in your development process? Check out the upcoming webcasts on these topics and more. Hackers are busier than ever. Do you know...

Interested in finding out more about the benefits of running with least privilege, and how you can do so without experiencing pain, or giving up power? Come to tonight's meeting of the Capital Area .NET Users Group , where I'll be speaking on the subject...

This time on TechNet: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/secnews/articles/lpuseacc.mspx Will 2005 be the year of Least Privilege? Perhaps a bit optimistic, but I'd love to see it happen. Perhaps if I could get Scoble , and Julie Lerman to start...

MSDN has just published part 2 of Michael Howard's discussion of strategies for browsing the web and reading email more safely if you absolutely must log onto your day-to-day machine as Administrator. Regular readers know I recommend against this, as...

Interested in working for Microsoft? Experienced with our technologies? Then you may be interested to know that we've got an opening in the Washington, DC area for an ISV Developer Evangelist . Here's the description: Responsibilities: · 1:1 engagement...

Concerned about spyware on your machine? Want to find out how Microsoft is addressing this threat? Then you may want to check out the beta of a new Microsoft AntiSpyware product: http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx The...

From one of my colleagues on the Tablet team: Microsoft is excited to inform you that the Inaugural Microsoft® Windows Anywhere conference focusing on Tablet and Mobile PC Applications development will debut in February 2005 co-located with Fawcette Technical...

Are you interested in Windows Forms that use the .NET Framework to its fullest? Would you like to kill every last bug in your web application? Are you hankering for more information on Visual Studio Team System? Well, the good folks at MSDN Events are...

Happy new year! Since I get a fair number of questions and requests related to my books through my blog, I thought I'd post an article providing resources for the books. The article can be found at http://blogs.msdn.com/gduthie/articles/345247.aspx ,...

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