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Alan Myrvold has a new post on the Office 2010 engineering blog covering password complexity and related functionality in Office: http://blogs.technet.com/office2010/archive/2009/10/16/enabling-password-rules-for-office-2010.aspx
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See also: http://blogs.technet.com/office2010/
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Rotors of TUNNY Cryptographic Machine by brewbooks available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license SMPTE pattern with glow by Simon Strandgaard available under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license ( http://blogs.msdn.com/ejarvi/archive/2009/08/07/test-patterns.aspx
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Encouraging to see more thought and effort being put into software test patterns. Alan Page recently posted on this topic over at the MS Press Blog .
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Here's a C# code snippet for iterative tree traversal of elements in an XML document using XPathNavigator that takes advantage of parent pointers. [ download source ] test.xml 1 <? xml version = " 1.0 " encoding = " UTF-8 " standalone = " no " ?>
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My first article on the topic of security testing and risk management is now published in the March 2009 issue of Testing Experience magazine, pages 28-30. http://www.testingexperience.com/subscribe.php (free online subscription takes you to PDF download
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The Office security team typically targets memory-corruption bugs in the software like buffer overruns, integer overruns, and format strings... http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=159305
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"posting nearly 5,000 pages of new technical documentation for the Microsoft Office binary file formats for Word, Excel and PowerPoint" Press release: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2008/jun08/06-30InteropUpdatePR.mspx Technical specs: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=12206
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Great article on testing by James Rodriguez that I just came across, you can learn a lot in Little League! http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb968981.aspx This reminds me of a funny thing that happened last year. At the start of baseball season
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Some ideas on how to "get traction" as a software tester (especially at Microsoft): http://blogs.msdn.com/dustin_andrews/archive/2007/12/15/learn-to-get-traction-in-your-team.aspx
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Now with linkable web pages! http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry/archive/2007/11/30/vsts-web-access-power-tool-for-team-system-2008-released.aspx
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J.D. Meier has posted a decent index of videos covering performance testing, ASP.NET 2.0, and VSTS: http://blogs.msdn.com/jmeier/archive/2007/11/22/videos-security-performance-testing-and-visual-studio-team-system.aspx
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The Unintended Consequences of the Information Age Lecture Series: Our Infrastructures: Online and Vulnerable? Jointly sponsored by The Center for Information Assurance and Cybersecurity, UW-INSER, the MS Program in Strategic Planning for Critical Infrastucture,
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Something I will definitely be keeping my eyes on. Stuff like this tells me we've come a LONG way since the 1990's ... "After a great deal of work between the Moonlight and .NET teams, we’re ready to formally announce that we (Microsoft and Novell) will
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Details on Brian Harry's blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry/archive/2007/07/30/team-system-web-access-power-tool-available.aspx
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