Monthly Archives: April 2004

DonXML on dotnetrocks last night

Just Rambling

I got to listen to some of the interview and it was awesome to get a glimpse of how much Don knows about not only XML but how it fits into the big picture. Then some guy called from Canada and took over the show for a while (I was working so I didn’t listen too carefully at whatever that was all about) and then there was some of Carl’s beautiful music (from the lyrics, it sounded like an original) and I went to bed at 11 and missed the rest. I’ll be sure to check the rest of the show when it gets posted here.

Jeannine Hall Gailey’s WSE2 Book

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Late last year, I finally began tackling WSE and then followed that up with some (now postponed boo hoo) very excited digging into WSE2.

During that time I had read a very useful article on WSE by Jeannine Hall Gailey and heard from her that she had a WSE2 book coming out.

The insatiable programming book reader, Jason Salas, has just read, really liked and reviewed the book. Here’s his review.

Here is Jeannine’s website.

Here’s the book.

WSE2 is still in technical preview mode, but if you haven’t gotten your feet wet with it yet, better hurry up! Here is a slew of MSDN articles.

 

select * from blabla where id=12323 ;shutdown

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Hannes Preishuber (who I met at the summit. Hi, Hannes!) learns something very scary about TSQL.

Here are some great reasons to protect yourself from SQL Injection through things like validation (Hannes points out that a typical search for quotes won’t help in this case), using stored procedures and using least priveleged accounts for your webdatabase

Shutdown – Shuts Down SQL Server

Revoke – Revokes user permissions

Grant – Give yourself any permission you want

Drop Table /Index/Rule/Procedure Etc.

Drop Database – ouch!

BASIC turns 40. When did YOU first use it?

Just Rambling

My first BASIC class was in my junior year in College which would either have been fall of 1981 or spring of 1982. Yeah – before most of you were born. We worked on HeathKits that the mathematician professors (a married couple) had built.

Here’s Paul Vick on the topic and an AP Article he was interviewed for.

I love this from the article! Brings back memories!!

10 PRINT “In 1963 two Dartmouth College math professors had a radical”

20 PRINT “idea – create a computer language muscular enough to harness”

30 PRINT “the power of the period’s computers, yet simple enough that even”

40 PRINT “the school’s janitors could use it.”

50 END

Mike Gunderdoy says “more than 1/2 of those years” for him. I guess that makes us about even!?