January 2010 Blog Posts
Today was DDD8, the last DDD event I can do because the rules exclude MS employees from speak and in 10 days time I will be in that category. I presented “A Developer’s Guide to Encryption” (PowerPoint/Sample Code) running through the main options developers have in .NET for cryptography. (The powerpoint deck should have all the spelling checks fixed. I swear those weren’t there on Wednesday when I finished … but I can’t see how anyone could have knobbled it, so I must have just been very fat fingered!) I’m rather sad to leave DDD behind, I’ve presented at...
#1 of what will be doubtless many. Right now I’ve started to put things away, so I don’t know when I’ll have the ability to produce a proper errata to Wrox requirements, so rather than have you struggle I’m posting the correction(s) here. Listing 10-11 on page 251 is incorrect, and if ran no X509 signing certificate will be extracted, although the XML signature will be verified. The code should be as follows: public static bool VerifySignature(XmlDocument document, out X509Certificate signingCertificate)
{
// Create a new SignedXml object and load
// the signed...
A few people have been asking for the table of contents for Beginning ASP.NET Security so here it is; CHAPTER 1: WHY WEB SECURITY MATTERS Anatomy of an Attack Risks and Rewards Building Security from the Ground Up Defense in Depth ...
There’s a role on the Microsoft careers site right now for a Creative Technologist. Apparently you must be T shaped (as opposed to the big O shape I accused a particular DPE of being). James Hart thinks this is because they already have M, I, C, R, O, S, O and F shaped DPEs … So which shape are the two Mikes, or Eric, or … ok I’m going to stop this now. Technorati Tags: Jobs,DPE
So I get to have my swan song at the end of the month at DDD8. I’ll be presenting “A developer’s guide to encryption” and, if they arrive in time to Computer Manuals I’ll also be signing my new book – but I’m not sure if I will have giveaway copies in time - Amazon gets first dibs on physical books, and I only get limited free copies, the majority of which have been spoken for. It is worrying I’m in the last slot of the day … I don’t trust Gary Short for starters and silly string has...
And if it’s anything like last year will close tomorrow too. So put a reminder into outlook to visit the DDD site and register from 13:00 onwards. Last year all the places filled in four hours … (And this year it was full in 15 minutes. Next year maybe you’ll slip into negative time, but I won’t be allowed to present *sigh*) Technorati Tags: DDD,DDD8
The voting for DDD8 sessions is now open. Don’t let the fact that this will be the last DDD I am presenting at influence your votes in any way. Technorati Tags: DDD,DDD8
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Last year Wrox switched from having happy, smiling, chin posing authors on their book covers to, well, to random images with a bit of red. So for those of you that have pre-ordered you’ll be happy to know that you won’t have me smiling out from your book shelf. Instead you’ll get an image which encapsulates my interest in exercise and sports. Errr, well, someone’s interest in exercise and sports. Never fear though, I am on the inside … Note for Americans – this image is from a game called football by the rest of the world. The...