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Saturday, October 04, 2008 10:52 PM

Security Development Lifecycle

“Microsoft’s Trustworthy Computing initiative is perhaps the most advanced and comprehensive application security program in the industry.” “Managing Application Security From Beginning To End,” Forrester Research, Inc., August 2007 Security Development...
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Saturday, August 02, 2008 5:26 PM

CruiseControl.NET and CVS with pserver

Wow. This was really painful. I'm setting up CruiseControl.NET to build our projects at work. I'm forced to use a CVS server for the source code repository that has been configured to use the pserver mode for authentication. It was easy to figure...
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Saturday, August 02, 2008 1:23 PM

Burned by the same dumb problem twice!

I hate when that happens. So I'm leaving myself a note: http://www.thejoyofcode.com/Failed_to_map_the_path_App_GlobalResources.aspx Notice my comment near the end of the comments. A zero-byte file in the folder C:\Documents and Settings\All Users...
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Sunday, June 08, 2008 8:46 PM

Open Source? Say what?

I'm throwing away a pamphlet I got in the mail for O'Reilly's Open Source Convention, OSCON. "Open Source." Two little words for a big concept: that code can be owned by more than a single person or corporation. That a lot of people...
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Tuesday, April 08, 2008 11:29 AM

Talking about AddThis - #1 Social Bookmarking Sharing Button - Del.icio.us Digg Facebook Widget

Now this is a brilliant thing. A single button which adds a "favorite" (or whatever) to your online collective list of "favorites" (or whatevers). Quote AddThis - #1 Social Bookmarking Sharing Button - Del.icio.us Digg Facebook Widget
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Friday, September 21, 2007 12:40 PM

Bits.Bytes. » Customizing Windows Powershell

This is a way cool set of customizations for PowerShell. Don't know if I want to get all into the signing, but this thing totally shows how to do it if you want. Bits.Bytes. » Customizing Windows Powershell Technorati Tags: PowerShell
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Friday, September 14, 2007 2:10 PM

Deploying web sites with Web Deployment Projects

One of my favorite things in VS 2005 is the Web Deployment Project . I've used them significantly on two major projects, and now I've discovered some things I do repeatedly that I want to remember for the next time. Using Configuration Replacement...
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Thursday, August 30, 2007 8:20 PM

Nested transaction - SAVE vs BEGIN [TRAN] [Archive] - dBforums

As David Browne himself says, this is a good "pattern for a nestable, atomic stored procedure that can be invoked whether or not the connection has already started a transaction." Nested transaction - SAVE vs BEGIN [TRAN] [Archive] - dBforums...
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Tuesday, August 14, 2007 1:11 PM

Advanced file renaming using PowerShell

I often find myself needing to rename a lot of files in an advanced way, like changing a word in the middle of the file name to a different word. That's ordinarily difficult, if not impossible with ordinary command line tools. But there is a way to...
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Tuesday, August 01, 2006 11:14 AM

Talking about LLBLGen Pro: The leading O/R mapper - generator

Emmet recommended this tool and he uses it for some applications. I like that it seems to be extremely powerful. OTOH, there is a lot to it, and it presented a problem for spinup time for me when I came into the project that used it. Additionally, there...
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Friday, April 21, 2006 11:20 AM

Talking about Being Scott Densmore

According to Hisham Baz, Scott Densmore is the King of Configuration for the Enterprise Library Quote Being Scott Densmore
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Friday, April 07, 2006 11:18 AM

Talking about Manage Application Settings Using Enterprise Library Configuration

This is a very good basic pattern for creating a configuration design block for extension to the Enterprise Library. Quote Manage Application Settings Using Enterprise Library Configuration Technorati Tags: Microsoft Enterprise Library , Configuration...
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Wednesday, April 05, 2006 3:14 PM

Talking about Enterprise Library Configuration $Part 1/2$: Customized Appsettings and the EntLib Configuration Man

Quote Enterprise Library Configuration $Part 1/2$: Customized Appsettings and the EntLib Configuration Man Technorati Tags: Microsoft Enterprise Library , Configuration
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Wednesday, March 22, 2006 9:21 PM

Talking about » Microsoft's most misunderstood application | Ed Bott's Microsoft Report | ZDNet.com

Microsoft's most misunderstood application How many times did I write a note on a piece of paper, and then lose the paper? How many times did I grab a post-it, and lose the post-it? How many times did I make a note for myself to do something, or a...
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Friday, March 10, 2006 3:35 PM

Configuring ASP.NET

This is a tremendously helpful article on configuring ASP.NET application on the server in IIS 6 ASP.NET Performance Monitoring, and When to Alert Administrators
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