Yesterday at lunch with Rob, David and Jorge, I was humorously telling Rob how he shouldn’t be worried blue if David shoots down his ideas as it’s always 50-50 chance his innovation will get manager’s royal blessing. However I claimed to be more relieved since we are not lone developers facing this. Bill Gates’s sender id initiative was also shot down by IETF. [Bill Gates e-mail ID plan rejected]. Might not be the best place for this quote but it’s a good one.

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot'' than the stigma of conformity. Thomas J. Watson, Sr.

I liked the senderid initiative, it had some flaws but oh well, there are always false positives for bayesian filtering too. May be IETF has an alternative, does it really?

Related Links

Internet Task Force Nixes Microsoft Sender ID Approach

AOL Dumps Sender ID

Sender ID dealt killer blow

Excellent architecture innovations from MIT; The Ray & Maria Stata center comprises of William H. Gates Building and the Alexander W. Dreyfoos Building.

Last Monday, Kevin McNeish spoke to LA. NET developers group September meeting. Kevin is author of Professional UML with Visual Studio .NET” (Wrox Press) and Microsoft C# MVP.

His presentation was quite informative; He discussed custom data binding in Windows & Web Form, referencing business objects as binding elements, standards for raising events, establishing relationships between business components etc. One of the many cool things in his presentation was localizing the user interface dynamically at run time, I took notes of the presentation but unfortunately didn’t get a chance to format them for my blog.

Upcoming LA.NET meeting is on Monday Oct 4^th; Allison Balter and Jeffrey Hasan will be discussing the following topics.

• New features Visual Studio 2005
• Transport Neutral Web Services using WS-Addressing 

Useful Links

Handling and Raising Events

Events and Delegates

Web Server Control Event Model

Events in Windows Forms Controls

Managed and Unmanaged Events

ASP.NET event model

I didn’t take this picture by any spy camera like some of my friends think I did; it wasn’t bright enough and I didn’t want to use flash. J

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Dinis Cruz's presentation about ASP.Net security and The Open Web Application Security Project. Download the PPT slides and presentation video by clicking here

Topic: Full Trust Asp.Net (in)Security / Secure Asp.Net Web Application
Development
Overview: In this session Dinis will cover three areas of extreme importance
to .Net Developers: 1) Security vulnerabilities with Full Trust Asp.Net
environments, 2) How to create and develop Secure .Net Applications and 3)
How to write secure code in today's development environment (this 3rd
section will include a preview and sample material of the forthcoming
"Writing Secure Code Boot Camp" currently being co-developed by Dinis
together with IntenseSchool.com and book authors Michael Howard and David
LeBlanc)."

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Amazon.com is trying to out-Google the king of Internet search with a new site that puts a fancy face on Google's plain-Jane search results... (Washington Post)

Trying out a9.com via this  Interesting news from Washington Post, reminds me of Bill Gates saying

“In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone.“

Linkomania

• Some exceptionally good Video Lectures by Hal Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman by MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• Numerical Recipies in C