Ahh, if only it could be forgotten, my favorite Microsoft story ….
Blink status
I’m very unhappy that I have not been able to get back to working on my little pet project lately. Peter Rysavy was a real pal in going through the program and giving me a hit list of things that can turn it from an experiment into a useful program. And I have a whole class of blogging elementary students and teachers now waiting! I’ll get to it, I promise!
DevDays Speakers Action Items
It is amazing the amount of coordination that is going to happen to get the various speakers in 32 different cities all on the same page.
If you are anything like me you get a gazillion emails a day and set some aside to read later. Better not do that with the one you got from the DevDays coordinator. There are some serious action items that need to be attended to pretty quickly. Just thought I’d mention it here in case your email is buried already. It was only yesterday afternoon, but it feels like it was days and days ago already!
Norton Anti-Virus users – Intelligent Updater for up to the minute definitions
Update: Even after doing the intelligent updater, my NAV continued to say that I was only running the 1/18 definitions. I finally checked my activity log and saw that indeed, since I ran the Updater, NAV has been catching “W32.Novarg.A@mm“ which is one of the names of this virus.
I could not figure out why my latest virus definitions kept saying 1/18 even after I manually ran live update. Here’s why!!
LiveUpdate
LiveUpdate is the easiest way to obtain virus definitions. These virus definitions have undergone full quality assurance testing by Symantec Security Response and are posted to the LiveUpdate servers once each week (usually Wednesdays) unless there is a major virus outbreak. This is the easiest option for most home and small business users, and it provides a very high level of protection along with ease of use.
Intelligent Updater
Intelligent Updater virus definitions have undergone full quality assurance testing by Symantec Security Response. They are posted on U.S. business days (Monday through Friday). They must be downloaded from the Symantec Security Response download virus definitions page and installed manually.
Laughable Spam
This is just too much, but it made me laugh…
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Yet another Robillard MSDN article
This time it’s Eli!
per Kent Sharkey:
Eli Robillard has his triumphant return to MSDN (OK, so he’s got two headlines right now) on the ASP.NET Developer Center. This is one on creating a custom framework for handling the assorted errors that may happen on your ASP.NET sites.
DevDays prep – what I don’t have to do
When I got asked to present on ASP.NET security at not one but two DevDays events, I accepted [of course] and then afterwards started wondering where I was going to find the time to create a high quality presentation for such a big event. I have a few others that I am currently working on and it is hard (though rewarding and if you are really lucky, educational) work. Since this was my first time at bat for DevDays, I didn’t learn for a few more days what is beautiful about this event. You may know by now of course, from reading Brian Goldfarb’s weblog that he and Jeff Prosise have created the content for the web security track. Boy oh boy, this is like having my cake and eating it too. So you may be getting locals (and in some cases even local yokels) doing the presentations, but Brian and Jeff will be in many ways right up there on stage with us, feeding our brains…and yours! Of course a lot of the presenters are more than capable of creating their own session materials for this, but the benefit is that there will be very high-quality consistency for every single date.
Martha Stewart has bigger problems than stock fraud
Considering that she is a pretty attractive woman, I’d be going after the courtroom artist, if I were her! 🙂
New Server, New WebServer all the old problems
How often do you have to set up IIS on a remote server and configure it to be accessible from a client box using Visual Studio.NET? Daily? No. Monthly? No. Maybe once every year or two? More like it. I just want to kick myself when I have to go through all of the same problem solving! Oh yeah, forgot to install remote debugging. Oh yeah, forgot to include myself as a VSDebugger group member. The most interesting one this time was getting my webserver to show up in the windows explorer on my client box. I think I am almost back to programming now!
book writing
Joel Semeniuk asked me why I haven’t written a book and have turned down offers to do so. My joke answer was that I’m too busy with my user group and INETA (he also runs a user group and is on my INETA committee). I pointed Joel to Chris Anderson’s post which perfectly answers this question.