Doug Seven's Blog

Getting Wet with INETA

On Monday night Donny Mack and I tossed Bill Evjen (of INETA and Routers) into the pool on the roof of The Standard hotel at a PDC party - hear it from Bill himself.

If anyone has photos of Bill and me in the pool, please post the URLs here. Thanks!

Attention All SQL Server User Groups

I am sending a call out to all SQL Server User Group members. With the new launch of SqlJunkies.com we have enabled you to spread the word about your user group.

You can post announcements of your upcoming user group meetings here (http://www.sqljunkies.com/MyAccount/PostEvent.aspx).

The meeting will show up on the web site up until the day of the event. SqlJunkies.com members will be able to click on a link to add the meeting to their Outlook or Lotus calendar.

Fun in the Sun on SqlJunkies.com

We launched SqlJunkies.com this week (on Sunday during PDC). So far the response has been great.

Shannon Horn recently wrote an article that we posted accross bot SqlJunkies and DotNetJunkies. You can read it and discuss it in the forums.

On DotNetJunkies there is an interesting conversation where some users are modifying the code and converting it to VB.NET.

On SqlJunkies there is a conversation going on about the performance of temp tables versus the use of table variables.

There are some bugs on SqlJunkies.com that we are working out, but its coming along nicely. We'll be posting new builds weekly as we fix bugs and add features. This weekend we will be migrating DotNetJunkies.com to use the new code base that we built for SqlJunkies.com (we call it the Atomic Community Engine - ACE). In a few months we'll be releasing the source code.

Getting Ready for PDC and "The Launch"

I'm packing up to head to Los Angeles in a few hours. The Great-Geek-Pilgrimage (GGP - everything needs a Three-Letter-Acronym or TLA) has begun.

PDC should be fun - on top of everything else, we are launching SqlJunkies.com (the full site, not just the Blogs) and a revised codebase for DotNetJunkies.com.

We actually built a single generic codebase (the Atomic Community Engine or ACE - another TLA) for both sites to run on. The ACE framework enables all of the DNJ functionality, only better. The performance will improve, the latency will decrease, and the search actually works :) There are a few features we weren't able to finish for the launch, but we'll be posting new builds daily as we add and test features. One the ACE Framework is stable and we're happy (read: 2-3 months) we plan on releasing the source code (C#). Perhaps I'll even do some sessions at a conference on how it is built.

Anyway - if you see any of the Junkies at PDC in LA, be sure to say “Hi” - we mave have some stuff to give away!

ASC302 Exploring ASP.NET Security, Part II - Authentication & Authorization

The Visual Basic .NET source code for the demo's in my ASC302 Exploring ASP.NET Security, Part II - Authentication & Authorization session can be downloaded here.

Thank you all for attending.

Doug

ASC301 Exploring ASP.NET Security, Part I - Preventing Malicious Input

The Visual Basic .NET source code for the demo's in my ASC301 Exploring ASP.NET Security, Part I - Preventing Malicious Input session can be downloaded here.

Thank you all for attending.

Doug

AWF301 Advanced User Controls

The C# source code for the demo's in my AWF301 Advanced User Controls session can be downloaded here.

Thank you all for attending - I'm sorry not all of this code was available during my session.

Doug