May 23rd, 2008 Anthony Towry
Yesterday was my last day as a full-time .Net developer. I've taken a new position that has more of a focus toward information security. Hopefully I won't be dumping all of my development skills. I'll still continue with research and items that interest me on the home front, but I will likely be focusing much more time toward security/administration/etc.
As a side note, my supervisor gave me a lovely parting gift that any code monkey would be proud to receive:
Fuel for the soul.
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April 8th, 2008 Anthony Towry
Yesterday I attended the mini-launch put on by the Oklahoma City Developer's Group and several sponsors. It was held out at Francis Tuttle Technology Center with an excellent showing of local .Net talent. Read the rest of this entry »
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March 15th, 2008 Anthony Towry
The Mono Project has recently reached a major milestone with it's release of Mono 2.0 Beta. The new beta of the framework supports .Net 2.0 and some preview support of 3.5 functionality. This is a pretty incredible project when you stop to think about it.
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December 1st, 2007 Anthony Towry
Scott Guthrie has recently posted a fresh look at the .Net Web Product Roadmap which includes details on Silverlight and it's integration with Visual Studio 2008. If you've been watching the whole Silverlight thing unfold you know that when 1.0 was released it came with a bag of disappointment. It's lack of controls and communications support made it fairly useless outside of streaming video (which happens to be exactly 0% of my daily development).
As with so many products, we've been waiting on the next release. Up until yesterday this meant Silverlight 1.1, but not so today. The team has done something smart and rebranded the next release as Silverlight 2.0. The second release appears to have a much better chance of not being a steaming bowl of crap and brings much needed controls and network support. Take a look.
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November 24th, 2007 Anthony Towry
I just posted up the code, demo and info for a short utility I wrote for MS SQL Server password auditing. The application isn't all that special really, but should make one point.
When developing security apps, languages and libraries supported by a vendor might very well be way too abstracted to really get at the bits you want, but shouldn't be rejected out of hand. Vendor SDKs and APIs may provide the perfect interfaces for creating that dirty client you're working on.
Check out DoggednesSQL here.
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November 5th, 2007 Anthony Towry
If you're a .Net developer you're undoubtedly quite familiar with Microsoft's use of Community Technology Previews (CTPs). Yes, we know that these are early releases of what the new hotness will be, but what else? How early? How complete? How reliable? Finally, how do CTPs compare to the traditional idea of a beta product?
The Windows Powershell Team has posted an entry to set us straight and bring some understanding to the developer community.
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