The USA is only 20th in the world in broadband penetration. (Luxembourg just surpassed us.)

The winner of the FREE COPY of Netadvantage is Rich Burroughs. 

You can download the code samples here:

http://blogs.infragistics.com/blogs/tony_lombardo/archive/2007/04/20/live-from-redmond-episode-1-code.aspx

I want to build a community on ASP.NET technology and I need a multi blogging engine.

What are my options.

Community Server IS NOT FREE !

There is NO free version of community server for public facing community sites with moire than 10 blogs.

Please suggest away.

Every day a few folks send be pages of code and ask be to make it work for them (No Kidding)

Joshua Folkets is a developer that I had dialog with in the past and this we we sent me code for me to USE rather han fix.

What a treat – he just sent to me and said “I thought I’d send you this in case you find someone who might use it.”

Here is a screen shot…..

And here is a link to the code (use at your own risk) …..
http://www.joeon.net/downloads/SliderGrid.zip

Joshua – You ROCK !

A couple of days ago eWeek posted a panic attack here http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2110554,00.asp?kc=EWEWEMNL040307EP37A that sensationalized a paper that Fortify published here: http://www.fortifysoftware.com/advisory.jsp

I posted a link to the article yesterday – sort of tung in cheek, but decided to wait until I could refer to more information because folks might not intuit my point.

So let me offer this subtle hint: THERE IS NOTHING NEW HERE !

Security companies market themselves by generating press about their research – fair enough.

Tech Media Companies like eWeek naturally sensationalize to keep their readership flowing (the National Enquirer model of Journalism).

Now, it’s not like I don’t take developer security seriously. I spent about 4 of the past 6 years focused mostly on developer security.

But it’s time we fix the perspective a but. Fortify wants to identify the AJAX venders as the source of these security problems. (And not just Microsoft but basically everyone that makes Ajax Software.)

It’s great that security companies are looking at the rapid adoption of Ajax and calling attention to security issues. But, at the risk of sounding redundant …

THERE IS NOTHING NEW HERE !

HTTP & JavaScript have not changed. The possible programming mistakes have not changed. The defensive development practices that mitigate these risks have not changed. Just some of the buzzwords have been added.

ScottGu has replied here to some of the specific call outs in the above referenced article : http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/04/04/json-hijacking-and-how-asp-net-ajax-1-0-mitigates-these-attacks.aspx

Since it seems like there are still a good number of developers that are not yet up to speed on Web Development security and are particularly interested in how these security challenges relate to doing Ajax style programming…….

I’ve been talking to my old security buddy Mark Brown about resurrecting the “Digital Black Belt” Secure Development Series to do an extended “Developing Secure Web Applications with ASP.NET and Microsoft Ajax”.

Please offer your opinions so that I can gage interest.

Joe

Due to popular demand.

Grab the code here …..

http://www.joeon.net/downloads/Telerik-HelpDesk-Trial-CTP.zip

I’ve been using the beta and installed the release version last night.

Check it out…….

http://codegear.com/AboutUs/News/DelphiForPHPNowAvailable/tabid/251/Default.aspx

I got this today from my former team mate and IT Guru Chris Avis

I do a lot of traveling in my role. As such, it has always been a little cumbersome to let me friends and family know when I am free and not free. In preparation for a session I am delivering tomorrow I made a blog post about the new “Insert Calendar” feature in Outlook 2007 that makes it super simple to share your calendar and availability with anyone….regardless of how they access their email and what client they use.

If you have a hectic schedule like I do, your friends and family will truly appreciate this feature.

Way cool….

http://blogs.technet.com/chrisavis/archive/2007/04/01/office-2007-coolness-part-1-of-at-least-10.aspx

http://blogs.technet.com/seanearp/archive/tags/Linux/default.aspx

Red Hat EL Here:

http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2006/08/08/692395.aspx

Linux System Clock Issue in VPC:

http://support.microsoft.com/Default.aspx?kbid=918461

A collection of very cool guidance for the wizards over at Microsoft Patterns and Practices on using Visual Studio Team System .

Check it out over at CodePlex.com

http://www.codeplex.com/VSTSGuidance/

I need a VB and C# callable library that I can use to take .wmv files and create different AV formats of the same video.

I want to save as :

.wmv (different resolution for Zune)

.mp4 (iPod Video and PSP)

Flash Video

.mp3 (Audio Only)

.wma (Audio Only)

And perhaps .mpeg, .mov and .avi

I’ve found one such library but I’m wondering if there is something better.

All suggestions welcome. Just use the comment box or email Joe.Stagner [at] Microsoft [dot] com

Thanks

With nearly 500 attendees at last weeks Live From Redmond webcast on Code-Less Ajax witch Telerik, some of you had audio problems.

The whole webcast is now available for off-line viewing.

You can download load it here:

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032333878&culture=en-US&Action=Preview

Just go through the sign up and eventually you get to a link that says "Download for offline viewing".

Joe