January 2009 Blog Posts
As part of the book I've been developing some sample code for each chapter; and for chapter 4 the code has taken far more time than the chapter itself. That chapter deals with query strings and forms and covers Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF). CSRF is a exploit where a form request comes from another site and your site proceeds to act upon it because a user is already authenticated. I’ve covered this in more detail previously and released AntiCSRF to codeplex to help you protect against it. One of the things Alex and I discovered whilst going...
The session voting for SQLBits is now open. If you’re a SQL person in the UK you have a grand total of 83 sessions from 37 speakers to vote select for this free conference. (And if you’re a speaker there’s still time to submit for DDD Belfast) Technorati Tags: SQLBits
After Galway last year we’re taking DDD to Belfast this year and you can be involved. The call for speakers is open and awaiting your submissions. Like all DDD events there here will be NO Microsoft speakers presenting, just speakers from the .NET developer community; although we will have many of the Irish Developer Platform Evangelists (DPEs) on hand to help out and chat to attendees. The day is put together by the community for the community, in other words you. We thank our sponsors who have helped make the event possible: Microsoft have graciously sponsored the event!...
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/dd353205.aspx Let the hammering of servers begin …. Technorati Tags: Windows7
(or in my case shouting). From the MVP blog: SharePoint MVP Alex Pearce is head of IT at Great Barr School in Birmingham, UK. Recently, he travelled with two teachers to Sierra Leone. The UK team travelled to Africa to learn how they could transport redundant computers from their school in Birmingham to a school in Sierra Leone. In a recent interview, MVP Alex said: "First of all the school has no power so we are going to need to raise the money to buy a generator and to build something in which to house it. Secondly, we...