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December 2008 Entries

Yates Christmas 2008

Here we are before Santa arrived... Here is our tree, and the gifts from Santa this year...guess we were pretty good. :)

posted @ Monday, December 29, 2008 9:41 PM | Feedback (21) |

String/SecureString Extension

Wanting to make my applications more secure, and wanting to make it as simple as possible, I decided to use a couple extension methods to helps me manage working with the SecureString type. public static class StringExtensions {     public static SecureString ToSecureString(this string source)     {         SecureString secureString = new SecureString();         Array.ForEach(source.ToCharArray(), s => secureString.AppendChar(s));         return secureString;     }       public static string ToUnSecureString(this SecureString source)     {         IntPtr pwd = Marshal.SecureStringToBSTR(source);         return Marshal.PtrToStringBSTR(pwd);     } } Hope this helps.

posted @ Sunday, December 21, 2008 11:21 PM | Feedback (20) |

Websites and Blogs to Monitor

Oki, so this is just for my memory... BizTalk Server   Website | RSS FeedMicrosoft Surface   Website | RSS FeedProfessional Photography   Website | RSS FeedMicrosoft IT Showcase   Website | RSS FeedMicrosoft Operations Framework   Website | RSS FeedSolution Accelerator Security and Compliance   Website | RSS FeedMicrosoft Desktop Optimization Pack MDOP   Website | RSS FeedUltra Mobile PC Project Origami   Website | RSS FeedWindows 7   Website | RSS FeedWindows 7 Engineering   Website | RSS FeedWindows CE Base   Website | RSS FeedWindows Mobile   Website | RSS FeedWindows SideShow   Website | RSS FeedOpen Source News Feed   Website | RSS FeedReference Source Code   Website | RSS FeedMicrosoft...

posted @ Tuesday, December 16, 2008 11:59 AM | Feedback (18) |

Download All PDC2008 Videos in One Go!

Ok, so it will cost you ~70 GB, but well worth the disk space investment... Yes, these are the high quality downloads. Following Brian Kellers lead on the best way to download large MSDN downloads, I use Free Download Manager. Download and install Free Download Manager. This utility provides: Auto-resume support for interrupted downloads. Multiple simultaneous download streams for (usually) a much faster download experience. As the name implies, it's completely free. Download and open VideosOnly.txt. Also, download and open the VideosList.txt which tells you what video title goes with which video ID. Within the VideosOnly.txt...

posted @ Wednesday, December 03, 2008 7:16 PM | Feedback (22) |

All the [Whatever] Driven Development one can take!

As seen on http://www.scottberkun.com/blog/2007/asshole-driven-development/ Acronym Driven Development (ADD)…Have you had enough of all the xDD acronyms that have emerged over the last couple of years? Do you already know all about Responsibility-Driven Development, Test-Driven Development, Behavior-Driven Development, Domain-Driven Development and Model-Driv… Asshole Driven development (ADD) - Any team where the biggest jerk makes all the big decisions is asshole driven development. All wisdom, logic or process goes out the window when Mr. Asshole is in the room, doing whatever idiotic, selfish thing he thinks is best. There may rules and processes, but Mr. A breaks them and people follow...

posted @ Wednesday, December 03, 2008 11:17 AM | Feedback (16) |

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