Kirk Allen Evans will be working for MS starting March 1st as a DE for the Telco industry. He gets to stay in Atlanta.
Kirk – better start practicing the monkeyboy dance!
Oh, and I was just asked to pass this message on to you:
Congratulations, Keith!
Yours, Jennifer
(hee hee – sorry folks, inside joke!)
(Is this the only way to talk to you outside of the con-calls)
I wanted to point out that the DPAPI that we are talking about for protecting strings is now has a managed wrapper in Whidbey! They are still wrappers to the API, but a heck of a lot easier to code than the current solution that we will be teaching. Though the current solution is obviously what we will all need to use until Whidbey is released.
These are in the System.Security.Cryptography.ProtectedData and ProtectedMemory classes.
I plan to point this out in my talk.
Mike is also a great community champion! Here is an interview he did with Greg Robinson for ADT Magazine. Greg’s work was featured by Microsoft in a case study. Read all about Greg’s days as a COBOL programmer! 🙂
I am the typical programmer who needs to hear this! Look at this post where I thought I had to do this exact thing! Thank goodness Mark Pearce corrected me immediately in the comments of that post.
This is a typical example of the points that are being made in my DevDays “ASP.NET Defenses and Countermeasures” talk.
There are a LOT of people who think that this is the solution to permission issues. Developers like me who know just enough to be dangerous! (And you thought we only said this about our end-users).
I can see that *I* am going to learn SO much from preparing for this talk. I’m already excited about sharing it.
I was happy to finally get that the last 20 slides of the 63 slide deck for my DevDays talk (Web Track – Defenses and Countermeasures) is actually an appendix.
These decks are really designed to be very useful resources after the fact. They do a lot more than just highlight points that we will be talking about. The way they are written, it will be really easy to plug your brain back into the explanations and demos that you will see in the presentations.
And 20 pages of resources and check lists and code samples, on that specific topic! Very nice.
I’m going back and forth from getting ready for next Wednesday’s Edge 2004 East talk on Whidbey to studying and preparing for the first of my DevDays talks which is the Tuesday after that (3/2) in Hartford, CT.
Hopefully the effort will make for great presentations for all who are attending.
When Howard Dean announced today that he was leaving the presidential campaign, his parting words were still a rallying cry:
You have the power to take our country back so that the flag of the United States of America no longer is the exclusive property of John Ashcroft and Dick Cheney and Rush Limbaugh and Jerry Falwell, that it belongs to all of us.
and boy are we lucky!!
saw this on Andrew Duthie’s blog
Kent officially announces the ASP.NET resource kit. (with some good humor, to boot!)
It made a brief appearance last week or so, long enough for a bunch of people (including me) to blog about it then – poof – it was gone! 🙂
Speaking opps?? Ha! There is no such thing! *I* don’t even get to speak at my own user group any more. Being VERMONT, it is kind of a popular venue. By November of 2003, I had all but 4 months of 2004 booked.
If you don’t happen to wander over to that site
here is a line up (more details here)
(This is going to require a mass of links – too tired – maybe later – sorry!!)
Jan Pat Hynds (INETA speaker but came on his own and I still want to keep thanking him!)
Feb Steve Smith(ASPAlliance) Sponsored by the Julie & Rich B&B
Mar Jason Beres(INETA Speaker who is also a new Infragistics employee and Infra is sponsoring)
Apr Joe Stagner(MS)/Trace Galloway (Altova) – it’s an XML night
May Tim Huckaby (INETA sponsored)
June Michele Leroux Bustamente (INETA Sponsored)
July Don Kiely (frequent flyer miles and Julie & Rich B&B sponsored)
August – Ali Agheraza (local brainiac plumber)
Sept – (hey maybe a spot for me???)
October – Rocky Lhotka (INETA sponsored)
phew
Generally all of the out of town speakers stay at our house and try to get here for the prior weekend to enjoy Vermont. Pat was going to but unfortunately it became not possible at the last minute and he drove all the way here and back on the same afternoon/evening (boston to Burlington – 4 hrs each way). Thom Robbins from Microsoft Waltham has done that and so did Shawn Wildermuth back in June 2002.
Another fun thing is that I’ve managed to find local companies to donate speaker gifts – something special from Vermont (eg gift basket of Vermont food products cheese, coffee, chocolate, syrup etc.) We have some pretty well known companies in the area and many of them are represented in the group. Gardener’s Supply, Green Mountain Coffee, Lake Champlain Chocolates, Karhu, Burton (okay the Burton guy – who is also becoming a famous bike racer! – went over to Gardener’s Supply) so I do have a good pot to draw from. Last year, one member donated ski tickets at (my favorite ski place – Mad River Glen) for Chris Kinsman when he came here in March.
Now you see why I don’t get to talk at my own user group. These people are spoiled rotten with primo speakers. Heh. And I’m kidding. They are not rotten. They are the BEST and deserve this. Really it’s been awesome. THere are a lot of people in the group that are really working full time in .NET now at a pretty high level.
We have one young guy in the group, Neil Wacek, who was working on the Mono documentation before the user group even started. So he knew a ton before all the rest of us even knew how to spell dotnet. Another person, Roman Rehak, publishes lots of articles in Visual Studio Magazine has become a national speaker (well International if you count DevTeach in Montreal) and was track chair for the PASS conference this past year. I expect to start seeing Roman on the bill for future big conferences – he really is a phenomenal presenter and knows his stuff inside and out.
So those two, well, they probably figured all of this out without benefit of the group. But really people are learning and it’s wonderful to see the transition. Hell, I hadn’t even installed VS.NET until after our 2nd meeting!! (And I had a live, working asp.net app by the 3rd…)
So back to the amazing speaker roster — it has been like that for our whole two years (Feb was 2nd yr anniversary). Here’s a page (need to update recent talks) of almost all of our past meetings.
Not bad for a little ol’ Vermont User Group, eh?
Why am I writing about this? I was thinking how it kinda sucked that I didn’t get to practice my upcoming presentation by doing it for the user group first. 🙂 But that’s okay.
Well, that was a LOT more fun than practicing my talk or writing code and now I’m just gonna go to bed! HAHAHA! (yes, it’s ONLY 10pm!)
I have not had a need for Console applications since I started writing Windows applications. Obviously there are a lot of people writing console apps (I can tell from the cheers of all the folks who were excited about the color in the PDC presentation). I know Stephen Forte has one he showed me once.
So, what *DO* all you people do with a console app? Unit tests? Client apps? I’m curious.