Joe Stagner - Frustrated by Design !

Deitel books are great learning tools and often used as course text or soup to nuts learning guides. Also the physical quality of the book (printing, paper choice, color, etc) make it a collectors item if your a book lover) I had the pleasure of being...

Not really "new" news but I stumbled across this while trying to figure out why Twitter seems to be down every day these days. http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/05/01/twitter-said-to-be-abandoning-ruby-on-rails/ “We’re hearing this...

Version 1.0 of the SQL Server 2005 Driver for PHP is available for download on the MSDN download site. The possibilities are endless !!!

Next week I have a week full of meetings on things like. The Next Version of Web Forms Dynamic Data v.now and v.next ASP.NET 4.0 But the BIG part of the week will be spent on strategic planning for www.ASP.net web sites in the coming year. We want to...

The GPL dudes have invented a new Operating System. WINDOWS :) - http://www.reactos.org/ I especially get a kick out of how it's a complete rip-off of Windows, but their web site has a bunch of dialog protecting their Trademark ! I know that a small but...

We're very happy to announce that the first preview for the new Ajax features in ASP.NET just went live. For more information check out the Roadmap . This preview contains preview implementations for the following features: Client-side template rendering...

Dolores Labs posted recently " Amazon’s S3 Web Service, our #1 cause of failure " [ Click HERE to READ ] Amazon.com is a great company and a early innovator in the Web Services Community. (God knows I send them ALOT of money.) So this...

Dies UAC give you a rash ? It does me !!! It's not that it isn't a good idea - it is. But I really wish I could train it or over ride it. Maybe in a future Windows version - in the mean time, I'm trying Tweak UAC which provides a "Quiet Mode"...

Microsoft folks are very enthusiastic ! We love to dig in to new technology and show off the cool work that we do and this has been VERY true of ASP.NET MVC. Unfortunately, sometimes our zeal get's misinterpreted. I'm getting lots of questions about the...

Please checkout the first videos in my new Web Developer's Security Video Series. http://www.asp.net/learn/security-videos/ I'm hoping to do 100 Videos this year ! PLEASE SEND YOUR REQUESTS !!!

  For many years I've had an interest in and a focus on Application Security. Now, I'll be ramping up and doing a bunch of security related work in my role here at Microsoft. I hope you will add www.SecureDeveloper.com to your blog reader. I expect...

Spring is ugly in my job. From early March until late June I'm on the road. Conferences, Meetings, etc. Then when I finally get done my spring traveling.... There is "make up" work to do. I have to "make it up" to my two little princess...

T Check out this 2 day security brain fest. It happens to be right after Black Hat in Vegas. See you there ? The LifeCycleSecurity conference was started to provide a venue where professionals in the Application Security industry can learn from each other...

From - http://www.vistanews.com/ According to the Broadband Report, as of last March 57% of U.S. households had broadband Internet. These high speed connections make it possible to enjoy multi-media applications, something that doesn't work well - if...

It's finally hitting the street - " Advanced ASP.NET Ajax Server Controls " I had the pleasure to be a technical reviewer on this book during the writing process and am really excited about it's release. This book if one of the few that dive...

Check out the New features in BlogEngine.NET 1.4 New database provider BlogEngine.NET now works with most commercial and open source databases such as MySQL, SQL Server, VistaDB and many others. This allow you to use practically any database supported...

Well, Dave Ward tagged me in Michael Eaton’s software development meme that’s been going around. As far as blog-chain-letters go, this is a great one. It’s interesting to see how many diverse backgrounds lead us in the same direction...

That's there motto anyway. It's actually a very interesting product from my friends at ArtinSoft. Add Alternate Text To Image Assign Tab Index Convert Text To XHTML List Convert Text To XHTML Paragraphs Extract And Merge Inline Style Fix Deprecated Elements...

While in Chicago to speak at PHP | Tek , I got to do a Podcast (in a bar) with on of the The Thirsty Developers I hope you will [ CLICK HERE ] and listen !

I got an email last night from Eduardo. Eduardo "Love's VB.NET", but is concerned about his long term career prospects because he keeps hearing about C#. The Pie Chart from the Telerik Survey suggests that C# has surpassed VB.NET as the .NET...

Most people haven't had a chance to play with Microsoft Surface. It's one of the coolest technologies in a long time ! [ Click HERE to watch the video. ]

While at TechEd 2008 I got to spend some time in the "Fish Bowl" with Georgeo Pulikkathara . Georgeo interviewed me on Microsoft's Secure Development Lifecycle (SDL) and my upcoming Developer Security Activities. Please [ click HERE ] to check...

ComponentArt releases Charting 2008.1, introducing advanced AJAX interactivity, dual 3D rendering engines, and a wealth of core charting features. Grate for AJAX style data visualization ! Visit the Charting Gallery for live demos .

Microsoft has released an advisory for the recent SQL Injection attacks which points to several tools that will help identify and block these type of attacks. The goal of this blog post is to help our audience identify the best tool depending on their...

Since most of us Geeks are caffeine addicts...... "Coffee consumption has been linked to various beneficial and detrimental health effects, but data on its relation with death were lacking," says Esther Lopez-Garcia, PhD, the study's lead author...