Month: October 2005
The Rules of Code Generation
Couple of days ago, I and Rob were discussing merits and pitfalls of template based code generation in llbgen and codesmith. Also, that it's a fallacy code generation has become somewhat synonym to ORM (Object Relational Modelling) and ORM faces several challenges when it comes to support legacy systems. This reminded me of Kathleen Dollard, author of “Code Generation…
Up Coming SoCal .NET Events
Bernard Wong does an excellent job of developer event's evangelism; kudos to him on the launch of new .NET user group in Santa Barbara. He maintains a list of socal development events which comes in pretty handy and I try to attend most of them. In first week of November, in time tested Los Angeles.NET developers group,…
Reporting Services Email Delivery - Your Options
Chris Rose, our former DBA and a friend mentioned yesterday the need of having to use SQL server reporting services subscription emails “WITHOUT Outlook and Exchange”. He suggested and I concur, there would be two ways to do it. 1. Configuring a Report Server for E-Mail Delivery Use the RSReportServer Configuration File and edit the SMTP…
Web Service Enhancements (WSE) 3.0 and Secure Web Services
Mark Fussell discusses the driving goals for the WSE 3.0 release, how security best practices have been incorporated by introducing "turnkey security scenarios" and the relationship between WSE 3.0 and Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), the future Web Services platform from Microsoft. Click here to read more/see the video
Open Office - Eat this!
World Wind 1.3 ... 3..2...1...Blast Off
NASA's World Wild...really awesome .NET app. From their website.. “World Wind lets you zoom from satellite altitude into any place on Earth. Leveraging Landsat satellite imagery and Shuttle Radar Topography Mission data, World Wind lets you experience Earth terrain in visually rich 3D, just as if you were really there...” Download
IT-Limericks
Here at Next Estate, we have very talented folks; Likes of Rob Walling, Calvin Park et al. However, technology is not their only talent. Following is the series of limericks came into being when some bagels were brought...classical pieces of IT-Poetry. Since the move we are not ableWe thought we would set the table There are…
VS 2005 Launch Tour
SD3 + C violation
It seems to me a clear violation of (SD3 + C) Secure by Design, Secure by Default, Secure in Deployment and Communications principle. The scary thing was, I could even reproduce it in IE 7.0 beta; not a firefox vulnerability of course (not that I'm a firefox fan but people!). Next time you have your…
