The Penton-izer

For the past week (really, longer) there has been so much chatter about this recent exposed POET attacks. As soon as the ekoparty Security Conference was over...more specifically...when Juliano Rizzo was finished with his talk - the amazing folks at Microsoft were scrambling to understand if there was...

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It's been quite a ride so far with the things needed to set up a business. There are several business types to choose from, but the only ones that I was interested in were sole proprietorships and LLCs (limited liability corporations). A basic explanation can be found here . I found many websites that...

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I started at Telligent on 14 August 2006 with much determination. It was the third time that Rob Howard & Jason Alexander spoke to me about coming to Telligent. I was reluctant, mostly because I had no idea what Telligent was really about. It didn’t take long for me to integrate with the culture...

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I was invited to speak at CodeStock 2009 this year. There were some great people here, met some new people I've only previously known on Twitter. I wasn't able to be here for most of the Friday sessions, but did go to one on Friday afternoon and several on Saturday. Probably the most entertaining presentation...

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Yes, I am speaking at the SSWUG.ORG Spring vConference. I am in the .NET Development vConference and have 3 talks - Microsoft "Velocity", A New Approach to HttpRuntime.Cache, and finally Thread Safety Through Self-Loading Collections. If you want to register for the vConference, all of the...

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Great news - Microsoft project code named "Velocity" was released last week. As such, I am going to get up some more videos up to describe some of the differences between CTP2 and CTP3. Stay tuned......

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I recently had a conversation with Pat Helland on the ASPNETPodcast ( link here ). It was a real treat for me for the simple fact that Pat is very easy to talk with. But, he has been involved in some really interesting projects over his career which gives him [in my opinion] a unique perspective to discuss...

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I'm presenting at Microsoft Tech Days virtual event on April 1st at 11:30 AM Central. Come join in on the session! All that you need is LiveMeeting and you can register here . Microsoft "Velocity" There are several external caching engines that are available. Now Microsoft is busy developing...

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I am speaking at the North Dallas .Net User Group (NDDNUG) on 1 Apr 2009. The topic: Deep Dive into Microsoft “Velocity”. I am going to talk about requirements, configuration and do several live demos. If you are in the areas, it would be great if you could stop by....

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I like Google Chrome . I really do. Very fast startup. Very fast page load times. But there is something that just annoys me to no end and has been an issue for me from day #1 with Chrome. Chrome dos NOT behave well in a multi-monitor, multi-resolution environment. It looks like this . Note how none...

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