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While I was presenting yesterday at the second of Black Marble’s events on Windows 2008 to a group of IT professionals, I suggested that they look at ‘Writing Secure Code’ by Michael Howard and David LeBlanc to get a good view of security in depth and risk analysis. On second thoughts, this book might be a bit too developer focused. I think Michael Howard’s new book with Steve Lipner “The Security Development Lifecycle” might be a bit more appropriate read (though it does not seem to be available on Amazon UK yet, should be there soon)....

I have been working on my DDD6 demo, I intend to show eScrum at end of my session on Scrum. I thought I would use the VPC I had from DDD5, this was based on the TFS Orcas Beta1 and had all the tools I wanted configured. To get some more realistic data in the reports I wanted to leave TFS server running for a week and on a daily basis update the work items as if the project was progressing....

Our home grown work tracking system has been through many versions over the years. The current incarnation was using a pre-release version of the Microsoft AJAX extensions. Now this caused a problem when we moved the ASP.NET application to a newly rebuilt IIS server with the 1.0 release version of AJAX. We were getting errors that the correct System.Web.Extensions DLL could not be found, as you would expect. I rebuilt the application using Visual Studio 2005 with the AJAX 1....

… you end up presenting at TechEd. Yesterday was fun (of a sort) I ended up doing the demo section of the ESB Guidance session at TechEd. This session was scheduled to be done by Robert Hogg (Black Marble) and Ewan Fairweather (Microsoft) but Ewan had to fly home early unexpectedly on Friday morning, so leaving somewhat of a gap. So you say, ’that is not too bad you just step in and do the prepared and scripted demo’....

I have not been blogging much from here have I, it is not that the sessions are not that interesting, but no single item has been giving me an huge urge to write. As I said in my last post I think this is a conference of best practice ideas and as such you tend to pick up a useful nugget here and there which you store away for future use....