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Patrick Hynds, MCSD, MCSE+I, MCDBA, MCSA, MCP+Site Builder, MCT, is the Microsoft Regional Director for Boston, the CTO of CriticalSites, and has been recognized as a leader in the technology field. An expert on Microsoft technology (with, at last count, 55 Microsoft certifications) and experienced with other technologies as well (WebSphere, Sybase, Perl, Java, Unix, Netware, C++, etc.), Patrick previously taught freelance software development and network architecture. Prior to joining CriticalSites, he was a successful contractor who enjoyed mastering difficult troubleshooting assignments. A graduate of West Point and a Gulf War veteran, Patrick brings an uncommon level of dedication to his leadership role at CriticalSites. He has experience in addressing business challenges with blended IT solutions involving leading-edge database, Web, and hardware systems. In spite of the demands of his management role at CriticalSites, Patrick stays technical and in the trenches, acting as project manager and/or developer/engineer on selected projects throughout the year.
Unless this is the first
thing on technology you
are reading in the last
six months you will know
that we are seeing a new
server being launched by
Microsoft. After the ups
and downs of Vista (many
love it and many hate it)
I expect that Windows
Server 2008 will be...
Developers are
increasingly working on
systems that abstract the
underlying mechanisms
they depend upon.
SharePoint was the
catalyst for this
observation as I
increasingly see
development
implementations that just
don't seem to work out as
hoped, with
misunder...
Another version of Visual
Studio is here and while
there are many cool
features, we can conclude
a lot from the fact that
it isn't a staggering
release. The first Visual
Studio that wore the .NET
moniker was a paradigm
shift and threw in many
features such as Web
...
When .NET first came on
the scene, there was
fighting over whether it
was a platform or not. As
I have said here in the
past, those debates are
over as .NET has proven
itself a very useful and
valuable platform,
expanding into areas that
people assumed it
wouldn't...
I feel as if there is a
calm on the .NET waters
at the moment and it's a
rare and somewhat uneasy
sensation. Most of the
developers I know are
playing with Blend and
Silverlight and all the
cool WPF stuff, even if
their specialty is
back-end database work.
We all ...
Vista is getting some
traction as a client OS
now and that means
developers are starting
to see on the horizon
that they should begin to
support it. This is good
and bad. Good because
there are lots of cool
things for developers in
Vista, but bad because
Vista cha...
This month, I want to
talk about Windows
Workflow and what it
means for the state of
.NET development (in my
experience and, of
course, in my opinion).
Before the release of
Window Workflow (WF for
short because WWF means
something else entirely
already), there we...
With the Microsoft MIX
conference just ending
last week and product
announcements happening
with greater and greater
regularity, it's
sometimes discouraging
when you think of how
much work it will be to
just keep up with it all.
When Microsoft announced
the technology that is
now known as WCF, there
was a lot of expectation
and some skepticism.
Expectation because it
sounded great and would
help us solve so many
problems and realize so
many things that were
then very hard to make
happen. ...
Usually in this space I
like to summarize the
contents of the issue and
point out anything
bearing in particular on
our theme, but if you
will indulge me, I would
like to talk more long
term and big picture this
month. I am thinking
specifically about
security. N...
A lot is changing in .NET
this year, but it all
feels like progress. Now
that Vista is released,
we get to stop using
Community Technical
Previews (mostly) of
things like WPF, WF, and
WCF. The ASP.NET group
has been busy bringing us
AJAX tools that take a
wild tec...
I am often struck by how
good some ideas are and
often wonder whether they
are happened upon by
accident (dumb luck),
like the discovery of
Teflon and penicillin, or
whether there was just a
really good idea that
made it happen. I think
what we are seeing in the
e...
In a cross-platform world
where software giants
nevertheless continue to
vie with each other for
developer mindshare, it
is significant that only
one major company has
managed to synch up its
release numbers with the
Web 2.0 phenomenon.
Microsoft is not resting
on...
Storage is still one of
the most costly and
fastest-growing aspects
of everyone's network and
is likely to remain so
for some time. Every
network user is a storage
user. We're all part of a
community that shares the
costs and the benefits of
this expensive resource....
Okay, 2005 is over. Let's
get back to work...But
first, let's look at
what's new. Microsoft has
taken WinFS, its new file
system, out of the first
release of its next
operating system. The
story is that WinFS will
follow soon after the OS
releases. For most of us,
...
Storage always seems to
come first in technical
discussions and security
seems to be the perennial
afterthought. This can be
considered reasonable
given how we shop for
things in general, namely
finding the thing that
meets our expectations
and then ensure it has
...
I am writing this from
Bill Gates' opening
keynote at PDC in Los
Angeles. 'User
experience' is definitely
the message of the day.
'Windows Vista' is a
clear indication of the
Microsoft belief that if
you build a better
interface then they will
come (or stay as the case
may be).
Last month we skipped the
introduction to summarize
some of the things we
hope to bring to you in
the coming year. This
month we are circling
back to our backgrounds
in the hopes that this
will help explain why we
might be suited to
fulfill the agenda hinted
at last month.
We (Patrick and Bruce)
are new to ISSJ. In a
future article, you'll
learn more about who we
are and why we are here.
In this issue, we thought
we would take a minute to
frame some of the
discussions that will go
on throughout the year.
In the early days of
networked applications,
application security was
as simple as running
programs on a 'hardened
box' behind a firewall.
As general developer
security IQ improved, we
learned to write safer
code, code that checked
identities and
principals, code ...