Great mate Barry has been caught on camera!
Barry’s Hacking websites for fun & profit is now available for off-line viewing over here. I’ve seen this session at least twice now, it’s well worth viewing.
Technorati Tags: Barry Dorrans, Hacking Websites, IMTC, security, hacking, idunno, lighthearted and fluffy, Charteris
Via: http://eventful.com/events/E0-001-005252664-9
When:
Monday, July 23, 2007 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM BST
Where:
Strathclyde University, Graham Hills Building, Room 5.14
Richmond Street
Glasgow, Glasgow City G1 1XQ
United Kingdom
What:
Jeff Barr, Senior Manager at Amazon Web Service Evangelism will talk about Amazon Web Services.
More details can be found at http://livz.org/cs
There are a MAXIMUM of 100 places available, so please book at Eventful.com by clicking the “I’m Going” button !
Cost: Free!
Google group:
http://groups.google.com/group/techscotland
Technorati Tags: Amazon Web Services, Jeff Barr, techscotland
Show #36 – The One With 5D… D… D… Wednesday, July 11, 2007
It’s the post DDD5 podcast, and its just as well Dave recorded something, ‘cos Rich never turned up! Rich makes some feeble excuse about missing another great DDD, but avows to ensure Dave’s XSLT Session underpins all the other sessions by marking it right down! Featuring interviews with Phil Winstanley, John Thomson, Andy Westgarth and delegates at DDD5 including Simon Harryiott.
Links mentioned by Dave:
Moore’s Law Video – http://youtube.com/watch?v=UgW-8LlGAfw,
Mona Lisa in MSPaint – http://www.dailycupoftech.com/2007/07/03/ms-paint-mona-lisa/
Microsoft Stealth Search Engine – http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/06/03/microsoft-silicon-valley-team-building-stealth-search-engine/
The hidden theme for this show was Guess the theme – get the swag!
Via Channel 9:
Grace Francisco talks over lunch with Ellie Powers, Program Manager with the Hotmail team to find out more about Scrum and its benefits. Hear her real world feedback on using it in projects and the challenges you may encounter.
And from a while ago:
Garry Wiseman, product unit manager, and friends take us through a new Windows Live classified service named “Expo.” We get a demo of this cool new service that helps you buy and sell stuff. A place for you to find things and others to find your things. You can learn more here: http://expo.live.com
Technorati Tags: Grace Francisco, Garry Wiseman, Scrum, controlchaos, Scrum benefits, Channel9
Spotted in the MSDN Flash of 11 July 2007…it’s amazing how easy it is to miss key releases like the one below.
Get your own subscription to the MSDN Flash newsletter here. Read the Editor’s blog here.
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Get the definitive guide to writing secure code and developing more-secure applications for Windows Vista – straight from the experts. Security is one of the greatest enhancements in Windows Vista, and developers will be urged to write more secure code on the platform to support a growing customer base. This reference delivers the straight scoop from the authors who wrote the immensely popular, award-winning book Writing Secure Code. Developers get first-hand insights into design decisions and practical advice for solving real-world security issues. The book covers new features, including ACLs and BitLocker, as well as enhancements to familiar concepts, such as firewalls and authentication. In addition, there are plenty of code samples in C# on the Web. Designed to complement and extend Writing Secure Code, this book is essential for developers of Windows Vista.
Chapter 1: Code Quality
Chapter 2: User Account Control, Tokens, And Integrity Levels
Chapter 3: Buffer Overrun Defenses
Chapter 4: Networking Defenses
Chapter 5: Creating Secure And Resilient Services
Chapter 6: Internet Explorer 7 Defenses
Chapter 7: Cryptographic Enhancements
Chapter 8: Authentication And Authorization
Chapter 9: Miscellaneous Defenses And Security-Related Technologies
Technorati Tags: Writing Secure Code, WIndows Vista, Michael Howard, The Moth, Daniel Moth
In this, the fifth Community podcast, I spend a few minutes chatting to Adrian Sutcliffe of the NxtGenUG, naturally the swag kings Dave & Rich get a mention! We talk about the sessions that Adrian attended at DDD5 and about the relative merits of “joining an IT-focused user group”. Recorded at The Riverside in Reading, it was raining, there were 40+ folks around. It was raining, so I had to filter the audio a little…hang in there, it’s still very understandable.
Download the podcast here. Transcript to follow.
I have a new podcast feed available too, you can subscribe to it here – and it works with Apple’s iTunes!
Related posts:
Podcasting – great advice
001 – Community Podcast – Dave McMahon, NxtGenUG
002 – Community Podcast – Ravi Nar – VistaSquad
003 – Community Podcast – Guy Smith-Ferrier – DotNetDevNet
004 – Community Podcast – Barry Carr, Gary Short, Hamish Hughson – North East of Scotland User Group
Technorati Tags: Adrian Sufcliffe, NxtGenUG, London .NET User Group, .NET, London, podcast, Community, UK Community, UK IT Community, User Group, user groups, DDD5
It looks like Zi has gotten the buzz for Geek Dinners! And why not – after all, he organised a very successful dinner after DDD5 and the DDD’s that went before that.
Check out Zi’s Geek Dinner page over here.
Technorati Tags: Zi Makki, Geek Dinner, GeekDinner, DDD5
The first one with the music…and where we say thank you to the backroom folks, the Microsoft events staff, catering staff, security staff, etc. – all the folks that make events happen, but rarely receive any thanks.
In this, the fourth Community podcast, I spend a few minutes chatting to Barry Carr, Gary Short and Hamish Hughson of North East of Scotland .NET user group about the relative merits of “joining an IT-focused user group”. Recorded in The Riverside in Reading, it was raining, there were 40+ folks around – I was lucky to get some time to catch up with these guys as they start out with their user group. I was also able to elicit their thoughts on some of the DDD5 sessions that managed to attend. It was raining, so I had to filter the audio a little…hang in there, it’s still very understandable.
Download the podcast here. If you recognise the lady at the start and end of the podcast, well done, it’s Dave’s wife – she also does the NxtGenUG leader and trailer audio! Transcript to follow.
I have a new podcast feed available too, you can subscribe to it here – and it works with Apple’s iTunes!
Related posts:
Podcasting – great advice
001 – Community Podcast – Dave McMahon, NxtGenUG
002 – Community Podcast – Ravi Nar – VistaSquad
003 – Community Podcast – Guy Smith-Ferrier – DotNetDevNet
Related blogs:
Barry
Gary
Hamish
Technorati Tags: Barry Carr, Gary Short, Hamish Hughson, North East of Scotland, podcast, Community, UK Community, UK IT Community, User Group, user groups, DDD5
In this, the third Community podcast, I spend a few minutes chatting to Guy Smith-Ferrier of DotNetDevNet user group about the relative merits of “joining an IT-focused user group”. Recorded on the day before DDD5, in a car, hence the background noise – I had to filter this a little to get rid of the engine noise, so apologies now for the sound quality. It’s still clear enough to hear everything that’s being discussed!
Download the podcast here. If you recognise the lady at the start and end of the podcast, well done, it’s Dave’s wife – she also does the NxtGenUG leader and trailer audio! Transcript to follow.
I have a new podcast feed available too, you can subscribe to it here – and it works with Apple’s iTunes!
Related posts:
Podcasting – great advice
001 – Community Podcast – Dave McMahon, NxtGenUG
002 – Community Podcast – Ravi Nar – VistaSquad
004 – Community Podcast – Barry Carr, Gary Short, Hamish Hughson – North East of Scotland User Group
Technorati Tags: Guy Smith-Ferrier, DotNetNet, Bristol, podcast, Community, UK Community, UK IT Community, User Group, user groups, DDD5
In this, the second Community podcast, I spend a few minutes chatting to Ravi Nar of Vista Squad about the relative merits of “joining an IT-focused user group”. Recorded on the day before DDD5, we were sitting in a pub in Wargrave which itself sits on the river Thames. It was a great location to being podcasting from!
Download the podcast here. If you recognise the lady at the start and end of the podcast, well done, it’s Dave’s wife – she also does the NxtGenUG leader and trailer audio! Transcript to follow.
I have a new podcast feed available too, you can subscribe to it here – and it works with Apple’s iTunes!
Related posts:
Related posts:
Podcasting – great advice
001 – Community Podcast – Dave McMahon, NxtGenUG
003 – Community Podcast – Guy Smith-Ferrier – DotNetDevNet
004 – Community Podcast – Barry Carr, Gary Short, Hamish Hughson – North East of Scotland User Group
Technorati Tags: Ravi Nar, VistaSquad, Vista Squad, podcast, Community, UK Community, UK IT Community, User Group, user groups, DDD5
In this podcast, the first of many, I spend a few minutes chatting to Dave McMahon of NxtGenUG about the relative merits of “joining an IT-focused user group”. Recorded on the day before DDD5, we were sitting in a pub in Wargrave which itself sits on the river Thames. It was a great location to being podcasting from!
Download the podcast here. If you recognise the lady at the start and end of the podcast, well done, it’s Dave’s wife – she also does the NxtGenUG leader and trailer audio! Transcript to follow.
I have a new podcast feed available too, you can subscribe to it here – and it works with Apple’s iTunes!
Related posts:
Podcasting – great advice
002 – Community Podcast – Ravi Nar – VistaSquad
003 – Community Podcast – Guy Smith-Ferrier – DotNetDevNet
004 – Community Podcast – Barry Carr, Gary Short, Hamish Hughson – North East of Scotland User Group
Technorati Tags: Dave McMahon, NxtGenUG, podcast, Community, UK Community, UK IT Community, User Group, user groups, DDD5
If you’re thinking about getting into podcasting, the chaps over at NxtGenUG have some great advice!
Rich and Dave recorded a podcast live during a recent presentation they gave to a bunch of us IT Community/user group folks here in the UK. It was highly informative and entertaining – I would expect nothing less from Rich and Dave!
One key takeaway that the boys gave us was the need for a transcript for your podcast – this has huge benefits as the major search engines index the transcript text, thus helping people find your podcast! Of course, it’s open to abuse…I don’t know how it happened, but somebody mentioned “Paris Hilton” during the podcast, you can imagine the effect that’s going to have! I wonder what effect it might have on this posting?
The other nugget that I picked up on was the ability to augment RSS content such that Apple’s iTunes software can find your podcast too. I’m not a huge iTunes fan, but there are plenty of folks who are, so it’s a case of learning to target the many rather than the few. It revolves around the iTunes RSS extensions, an example of which you can see below. Apple have written up a spec, but there’s a good overview of the RSS extensions here. Kudos to Rich and Dave for opening my eyes (ii, both of them) to that one.
[code lang=”XML”]
Download their podcast here.
Technorati Tags: podcast, postcast live, Rich and Dave, Dave and Rich, NxtGenUG, mp3, Paris Hilton, Apple, iTunes, RSS, iTunes RSS extensions, RSS extensions, the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few