Robert Hurlbut

Speaking at Connecticut .NET Developers Group: ASP.NET MVC 2: Best Practices, September 14, 2010

RHurlbut — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 12:47:00 GMT

I will be speaking at the Connecticut .NET Developers Group that will be held at the Microsoft offices in Farmington, CT on September 14, 2010. Here is my topic: ASP.NET MVC 2: Best Practices Level: Intermediate / Advanced Abstract: ASP.NET MVC 2 was...(read more)

Upcoming speaking engagement: ASP.NET MVC 2, Silverlight Security at New England Code Camp 14

RHurlbut — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 17:09:00 GMT

I haven't spoke at a conference for awhile but I plan to offer several sessions at the New England Code Camp 14 that will be held at the Microsoft offices in Waltham, MA on October 2, 2010. Here are my topics: Introduction to ASP.NET MVC 2 Level: Introductory...(read more)

ASP.NET MVC 2 Training

RHurlbut — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 16:58:00 GMT

I have recently finished writing a comprehensive training course on ASP.NET MVC 2 with C#. I am now offering this 3-day course through my independent consulting company. Please check out my Training page on my company web site if you are interested. ...(read more)

Two new Microsoft Security Developement Lifecycle (SDL) tools: MiniFuzz File Fuzzer and BinScope Binary Analyzer

RHurlbut — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 18:21:00 GMT

Microsoft has announced two new Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) tools here : MiniFuzz File Fuzzer MiniFuzz is a basic testing tool designed to help detect code flaws that may expose security vulnerabilities in file-handling code. This tool creates...(read more)

NHibernate and Fluent NHibernate Training

RHurlbut — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:20:00 GMT

I have spent a great deal of time over the last year and a half on a couple of projects architecting solutions using NHibernate and Fluent NHibernate as the preferred ORM (object relational mapper). It has really matured into a great set of products with...(read more)

PDC 2008 - Geneva Identity Management

RHurlbut — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 12:57:00 GMT

As Jason Hogg mentions in his blog post, the Geneva Identity Management Framework (renamed from Zermatt) was announced yesterday at PDC 2008. Genvea includes: Geneva Framework - A .NET framework for writing interoperable, claims aware applicatoins Geneva...(read more)

MVP 2008 - thanks again!

RHurlbut — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 23:48:00 GMT

I got notice today, as others did, I have once again been named a Microsoft MVP for 2008 in the area of Visual Developer - Security. Thanks again, Microsoft, and my MVP lead Rafael Munoz, and all those who have been very supportive of my community work...(read more)

WCF 3.5 will support Usernames over Transport Authentication

RHurlbut — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 14:21:00 GMT

Like Dominick Baier and Christian Weyer of Thinktecture , I also wondered why I couldn't use a UsernameToken with Transport Security in WCF v.1. I wanted to put together a simple demo for a client and that feature just wasn't there. Dominick mentions...(read more)

Heartland Developers Conference 2007 wrap-up

RHurlbut — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 10:20:00 GMT

Once again, for the 4th year in a row, I enjoyed the one conference I make sure to book well in advance. I haven't traveled to conferences as much this year, instead focused on client-related work. This was one conference, however, I was really looking...(read more)

Speaking at the Heartland Developers Conference 2007 this week in Omaha, NE

RHurlbut — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 10:47:00 GMT

I will be speakinzg at the Heartland Developers Conference 2007 , which takes place October 17-19 in Omaha, NE. This will be my 4th year speaking at the conference (I was there at the beginning) and it has continued to get bigger and better each year...(read more)

Speaking at New England Code Camp 8 this weekend

RHurlbut — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 21:03:00 GMT

I will be speaking at the New England Code Camp 8: Rise of the Silverlight Surfer at the Microsoft offices in Waltham, MA on September 29-30. I will be speaking on the following security topics: Penetration Testing of Web Applications Secure Code Reviews...(read more)

Speaking on Web Services Security at Boston .NET User Group on 9/12/2007

RHurlbut — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 20:14:00 GMT

I will be speaking on the topic: "Web Services Security: Where are we now?" this coming Wednesday, September 12, 2007, at the Boston .NET Users Group meeting at Microsoft, Waltham, MA. There has been some interesting talk lately, including this years...(read more)

Take a look at LiveId + CardSpace

RHurlbut — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 17:47:00 GMT

I was in a user group meeting recently with Patrick Hynds speaking about Identity and presenting demos on Windows CardSpace . Someone in the audience mentioned it would be great to see Microsoft start using this for some of their websites (I agree!)....(read more)

Another TDD and DDD success story

RHurlbut — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 19:24:00 GMT

I have been mostly silent for the past year as I have been busy working with a client in Western Massachusetts on a very interesting ASP.NET 2.0 project (using C# 2.0). I had the pleasure of working with one of the best teams I have seen in my career...(read more)

39

RHurlbut — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 12:03:00 GMT

An old favorite of mine, Jack Benny, used to be 39 forever. Today, I turned that age. Time flies ......(read more)