April, 2004

This is about airport security, not code security ;-) Raymond has a blog today about airport security , and it reminded me of something that always puzzles me. The Seattle / Tacoma International Airport has, as you can probably imagine, several...

This one could be controversial ;-) In a recent comment, Edd James (note to Edd: that link gives a 403) asks why Outlook and Excel " need this ability to run scripts/macros [?]" First I want to clear up a common misconception about Outlook...

I'm heading out on holiday (err... "vacation") in mid-May to see family and friends. I'll definitely be in London and Dover, England; I will almost certainly make it to Cologne, Germany and I'll probably make it to Brussels, Belgium for a couple of days...

Jeff , I promise this one will be short! And any MacOS fans reading , I am not dissing your OS! I am simply pointing out that this problem has no easy solution :-) A couple of days ago I wrote about the problems we face with usability versus security...

The other day, Karl Levinson added a comment to my previous entry about the Outlook OM. He raises some interesting points, so I thought I'd reply here. (Karl, please don't take any of this personally; I hear the same arguments from people all the time...

Eric Carter has started blogging! That makes two out of our three Erics on the VSTO team blogging. Eric Carter works on building the next-generation programming model for VSTO 2 and doing an amazing array of other really cool things. And if...

It's the second Tuesday of the month... That means it is time to go to http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com and download the latest patches : · MS04-11 - Windows fixes · MS04-12 - RPC/DCOM fixes · MS04-13 - Outlook Express...

A while ago I wrote a couple of blog entries on code repurposing and some mitigations , and one of the main causes of that problem is that developers inherently trust data. The text box caption says Name , so it's always gonna contain the user's name...

Eric makes some good points in a comment to my last post . Nevertheless, the forces of evil within me compel me to respond anyway. (You should have blogged it, Eric ;-) ). Eric's main point is that the employee doesn't need to use formulas in...

Julie is looking for input on a Top 5 Good / Bad Things about VSTO list over on her blog. If you have any others to add, surf on over and help her out ;-)