Schneier reports that SHA-1 has been broken. ‘SHA-1 has been broken. Not a reduced-round version. Not a simplified version. The real thing.’
Time to revisit all the applications you’ve written that used SHA-1!
Ian Hickson has an published an intruiging paper on the case for avoiding XHTML.
Here it is in a nutshell:
And all this time, I was ignorantly assuming that any well formed HTML page was XHTML. Well, you live and you learn.
UPDATE: I forgot to link to Ian Hickson’s paper http://www.hixie.ch/advocacy/xhtml.
Over at our company we’re evaluating various Microsoft technologies to figure out if we can leverage them when building our next generation development platform. One of our consultants, Kevin Hegg, pointed me out to the Microsoft Virtual Labs.
This is one of the most awesome things I’ve worked on. Using Remote Desktop (Terminal Services), Microsoft lets you log into their demo servers. So if you’ve want to try out BizTalk server, just print out the pdf that has the steps for the lab that your going to take. Then terminal service into the server and walk through the steps. You don’t need to go through the pain of downloading, installing and configuring BizTalk. Imagine that it just takes 2 minutes to sign up and login to a prebuilt server with BizTalk compare that to 10+ hours and the hear tearing that goes into setting it up on your local network.
Developers login to https://msdn.demoservers.com/ and try out the labs on Visual Studio .NET 2003, Soup to Nuts (Windows Forms/Smart Clients), Data Access and Storage, ASP.NET, Fritz Onion’s Intro to ASP.NET, Security, BizTalk
IT Professionals can login to https://microsoft.demoservers.com/ and try the walkthroughs on Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2005, Desktop Deployment, Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server (ISA), Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005, Security, Microsoft Systems Management Server Manager (SMS) 2003, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Microsoft Identity Integration Server (MIIS) 2003, Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft SQL Server 2000
Do yourself a favor and check out atleast one of the labs. You’ve got to see it to believe it!
In his latest column, Tom Yager from Infoworld starts off with:
Technology workers who don’t see themselves as passionate, creative professionals, and who lack commitment to their work, will inevitably occupy the lower strata of the future job market.
This is so true, I’ve seen it first hand at all my previous workplaces and at the various companies that I’ve conducted training for.
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testing over at www.testing.com by Brian Marick,
any tester and even developer worth their salt would find this site invaluable.
Check out all the free material he has at
Brian also has a blog,
subscribed!
Check out http://techbooksforfree.com
quite a handful of free books, there aren’t many on the Microsoft list
but (as expected) quite a few on Linux, Perl, C and Python.
MVC apparently is way too simple
Now we have “WARS”
– Worflow, Action, Representation, and State. The implementation example described by Rupp is
pretty simple, which I like. The notion that presentation can be ignored, and boiled
down to a detail of “representation” I find to be a little extreme (of course!), but
overall this seems like a somewhat sane model.That said, still not sure how many people would “get” this model -
but if you are into MVC, WARS might be a reasonable alternative… [link from TheServerSide]
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Features of SQL Server “Yukon”
Discover how the next version of SQL Server, code-named “Yukon,” will benefit you
with the new and enhanced abilities and features described on this page.
There are a lot of important things happening if you’re a Microsoft developer. Two
key technologies that you need to get on top are Indigo (for developing distributed
systems) and Whideby (next release of the .NET Framework and Visual Studio® .NET development
tools). Plus Longhorn (the next version of Windows) incorporates and builds on the
.NET Framework.
Read more about them:
Have you ever spent time explaining the steps to perform an action and wished you
could just show it to them instead.
Microsoft gives you a free tool to do this. Download the Windows Media Encoder
from the Windows
Media site and simply start a recording session and then perform the steps.
The resulting file is really small that you could easily mail it out.
Now I know how I’ll be creating support How To content for our products, enough with
the documentation!
