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Michael Stuart's Weblog
Incommunicado for TWO YEARS...Yes, I have contributed to the gene pool
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My charming and uber-tolerant wife has given me a beautiful baby girl, Selkie. This happened 21 months ago, but it's only now I find a spare 30 seconds to blog about it. LOL, though, because I was that guy who variously poked fun at my friends with children...
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Leaving the nest at Microsoft...Bigger Things Afoot
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over 7 years ago
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After five fine years, I'm leaving Microsoft. I couldn't have hoped for a better experience. I've learned more in five years than I did in four of medical school; deep technical sk1llz, consulting skills, how businesses operate, how to develop...
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**WARNING POLITICS** Stupidity of War On Some Drugs
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over 7 years ago
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** WARNING: PERSONAL LIBERTARIAN POLITICS AHEAD ** Here goes--my first rabidly political post. Oh, goody! I'm drooling with glee. The recent hub-bub about lowering the drinking age in Wisconsin for military folks got me all hopped-up frothing and...
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SQL Injection--Everyone Knows It, No-one FIXES IT!
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over 7 years ago
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Does the following input into a web application text box strike appropriate fear into your heart? Nay, I should say, dost though poop thine pants gazing there-upon? ' or 1=1; '; use master; xp_cmdshell 'net user SomeUser SomeUsersPassword /add...
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New Version of CryptoUtility
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over 7 years ago
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Please have a look at: http://workspaces.gotdotnet.com/busybeebuilder http://workspaces.gotdotnet.com/cryptoutility CryptoUtility : My friend J Sawyer and I published CryptoUtility as part of an article on high-security crypto in a real world...
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New Versions--CryptoUtility and BusyBeeBuilder
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over 7 years ago
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Please have a gander at: http://workspaces.gotdotnet.com/busybeebuilder http://workspaces.gotdotnet.com/cryptoutility I've updated my two (currently) favorite pet projects. More on CryptoUtility in the next post...here's BusyBee: BusyBeeBuilder...
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Funny story...funny ha-ha on me :)
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over 7 years ago
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A good friend of mine--whose company I'm consulting for right now--emailed me this joke. Too funny...and kind of hit home :) Thanks for keeping me humble, Ryan! > A cowboy was herding his herd in a remote pasture when suddenly > a brand-new...
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Swallowing The Red Pill
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over 7 years ago
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As I alluded in my last post, I've officially swallowed the Red Pill...at least this month. For the 3 developers who haven't seen the Matrix--the red pill pops you out of the Matrix into reality, the blue pill returns you to blissful ignorance and a life...
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Ferrari vs. Chevy: pragmatic engineering
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over 7 years ago
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I love cars. It's the thing I'm most likely to spend stupid amounts of money on, and only the guiding hand of my frugal wife keeps me from mortgaging future college funds on a shiny 400HP...whatever. Too many 400HP cars around to count these days--topic...
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More RTCClient API 1.3
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over 7 years ago
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Hassan writes: Wednesday, April 27, 2005 7:57 PM by Hassan Khawaja # re: Real-Time, Server Push, Pub/Sub Network Apps in .NET--Buellar? Buellar? I am dealing with a somewhat related issue, basically creating an AD employee search directory...
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Real-Time, Server Push, Pub/Sub Network Apps in .NET--Buellar? Buellar?
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over 7 years ago
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My best friend's boyfriend's cousin said she heard it passed out in the 31 flavors last night. Guess it's pretty bad. Yep this is awful. It has to be the most under-served, and one of the most desirable, features in enterprise applications...YET, there...
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Fun Variant on State Design Pattern
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over 7 years ago
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OK so I'm working on quite a fun project; it's a proof of concept for a near-real-time, pub-sub, server to client push type communicaton subsystem. Phew. Essentially it's a big fat wrapper around a few candidate technologies including SIP, a.k.a. our...
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More on XBox Live
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over 8 years ago
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Wow! Lots of comments/emails from that last post. Seems others have been trolled on Live too. So there's a positive too: there are a host of decent, very nice people playing Halo 2 on Live. People who have the courtesy to say "good game" even after they...
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Stupid people on XBox Live
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over 8 years ago
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DUDE! What is up with the troglodyte faction playing Halo 2 some nights? Recently me and three of my friends were verbally assaulted by two separate groups. One group kept referring to us as "n******" (rude slang for African-American). I was flattered...
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Software and the UniMog
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over 8 years ago
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Coming soon...
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CryptoUtility article: comments on comments
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over 8 years ago
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So I'm looking at the feedback on my and J's MSDN mag article: http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/04/11/CryptoUtility/default.aspx I noticed that there are many "9" ratings, and many "1" ratings. Love or hate, I guess. There are only a few text...
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More on: Halo 2 and ISA Server 2004
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over 8 years ago
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Backgrounder: please see http://blogs.msdn.com/methylamine/archive/2004/11/15/257864.aspx for my original adventures with ISA Server and XBox Live/Halo 2. Latest news: I have given up. Though it was working, the number of open ports required huge resources...
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Halo 2 and ISA Server
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over 8 years ago
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OK, I'm NOT a networking expert...after all I'm a developer, so I can spell TCP/IP and have some vague notion that it helps my applications do stuff like talk to other computers. But necessity is the mother of invention; and what greater necessity than...
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Getting Married--Thanks, Match.com!
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over 8 years ago
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I'm getting married this week, and I'm thrilled. Props out to Match.com where I met my awesome fiancee! It's so mainstream now to date online we don't even think about it. But I remember when there was a huge stigma to "computer dating", part of the same...
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Excellent essay by fellow Rice U type dude
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over 8 years ago
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Ha! I just read a great essay: http://samizdat.mines.edu/howto/HowToBeAProgrammer.pdf Funny, the author went to Rice too. He graduated the year I started, wish I'd known him.
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Environment setup, NUnit Testing...
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over 8 years ago
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Does your project rely on a number of externals--things in the GAC, COM+ packages, registry keys and the like? Do your unit tests need these? What tricks do you use to set up your environment for unit testing? I've resorted to a number of dirty tricks...
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Real-World Cryptography Article Coming
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over 8 years ago
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My friend J Sawyer and I are doing an article for November's MSDN...the title's not fixed but it's something like "Real-World Cryptography". J's a Developer Evangelist down here in Houston, and he's one of the finest developers I know. Nevermind that...
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Flame-Starter: VB.NET too intrusive
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over 8 years ago
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Wish me luck. I'm about to start a flame-war. At issue: VB tries too hard to "help" you--but sometimes gets in the way at the worst possible moments. In Evidence: I'm on a fairly complex project involving web services, COM+ ServicedComponents, heavy-duty...
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Refactoring VB.NET, and Project Apathy
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over 8 years ago
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First off, I wish C#Refactory were available for VB.NET!!! ARRGHH! I've become so enamored of C#Refactory (find it at http://www.xtreme-simplicity.net/ ). It's one of those tools you use for a week and realize it's already paid for itself, a slam-dunk...
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BusyBeeBuilder--Automated Thrice-Daily Builds
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over 8 years ago
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First, please go to: http://workspaces.gotdotnet.com/busybeebuilder There, you can download my favorite pet project the BusyBeeBuilder. The MSI installs the binaries, source, and docs. It's a clean install--and it uninstalls cleanly too. I'm a HUGE fan...
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