June 2008 Blog Posts
For those in the UK that missed it, it’s available through the BBC iPlayer ... however, looking at the program listing .... Page Three teens? So many unanswered questions ....
As a way of attempting to encourage more women to submit sessions for DDD7 I decided that bribery a prize might help. All you need to do is submit a session, and present it if it’s selected and you could win a 1 year MSDN Team Suite subscription, worth just over £8500. Full details are on the London Girl Geek Dinners web site. (If none of your sessions are selected by the attendees I shall be drawing a name from the hat). So what are you waiting for? Think of a session; submit it. And while you’re at it talk...
Microsoft have a role called a developer evangelist. They’re the people that engage with the community, promote the new stuff coming out, through out swag, that sort of think. Think "marketing", but with the short skirts and good legs. As such, certainly in the UK, they’re well known and "loved" by the user group community (well, they come speak to us for free; they have to, it’s their *job*). One of the UK DPEs is leaving us; his last appearance is this week at Fest08. The community is obviously sad to see him go (but it does mean that there...
Yesterday saw the release of the beta version of the P&P team’s WCF Security guide. The guide, Improving Web Services Security: Scenarios and Implementation Guidance for WCF, is the Microsoft recipe book for Windows Communication Foundation. It aims to show you how to build secure services using WCF and promises to be "a compendium of proven practices, product team recommendations, and insights from the field", including application scenarios and step-by-step how-tos. Best of all it’s free; published as a PDF for download. The chapters are Security Fundamentals for Web Services Threats and Countermeasures...
One of the sessions I’ve submitted for DDD is "So you want to be a speaker"; which has the following abstract; Is being in the audience no longer enough? Do you long for the fame, the glory, the groupies that come with being a DDD presenter? Then come along to this discussion/Q&A panel with some of the UK’s top speakers; we’ll cover topics like "How do I get started?", "Am I good enough?", "Is bad feedback the best feedback?", "Powerpoint, is it the work of the devil?", "When good questions go bad", "My demo code worked earlier" and...
From page 52 of the new Leopard security guidelines; Enter a new password and verify it when prompted.This password can be up to eight characters.Do not use the capital letter “U” in an Open Firmware password. According to an Apple support doc (if you do kiss booting your machine goodbye; - darn, not the case) If you used Open Firmware Password utility to create a password that contains the capital letter "U", your password will not be recognized during the startup process (when you try to access Startup Manager, for example). Excuse me while I giggle insanely .......
The call for speakers for DDD7 is now open; if would like to give a talk, whether short grok or longer presentation style, at DDD 7 on Saturday 22nd November 2008 please complete the short form. We are opening the form early to give everyone a chance to think about a topic that you are passionate to share with the community. So whether you are a regular speaker on the community circuit or just want to share your knowledge and experience for the first time with others - we welcome you to submit your session proposals. A DDD event is...
FEST08 the annual NxtGenUG one-day event takes place at Microsoft Reading on Thursday 12th June (just a few days after my birthday, so bring presents). As ever it’s going to be an action packed day with great content from the likes of Mike Taulty ,Oliver Sturm , Dave Sussman and other top speakers. There is a cast iron guarantee that there will be no Information Card sessionsbut there will be swathes of swag and prizes and pizza (it wouldn’t be a nxtgen event without those). There are a few places left; it’s free to all NxtGenUG members and a mere...