Robert Hurlbut

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

2010-08-28T12:47:00Z

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 released earlier this year as an update to ASP.NET MVC 1 with several improvements. This talk will briefly review what ASP.NET MVC 2 is and then will dive into some best practices for using the tool to build great web applications. We will cover the...(read more)

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

2010-08-27T17:09:00Z

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 Abstract: MVC has been a big buzzword for ASP.NET developers. We'll explore what it is, what problems it solves, and how to be effective with it. This is for beginners that have had no experience with MVC but have worked with ASP.NET Web Forms...(read more)

ASP.NET MVC 2 Training

2010-08-27T16:58:00Z

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. (By the way, I updated my own website to run and use the .NET Framework 4.0 and ASP.NET MVC 2. It was a fun exercise to update my 10+ year old format I used for ages.)...(read more)

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

2009-09-17T18:21:00Z

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 multiple random variations of file content and feeds it to the application to exercise the code in an attempt to expose unexpected application behaviors. Because fuzzing is effective at finding bugs, it is a required activity in the Verification Phase...(read more)

NHibernate and Fluent NHibernate Training

2009-09-17T17:20:00Z

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 the release of NHibernate 2.1 (especially with System.Transaction support) and Fluent NHibernate 1.0. I have also used LINQ to NHibernate 1.0 and like how that works as well, but it could be tweaked some more. I have decided to turn that experience...(read more)

PDC 2008 - Geneva Identity Management

2008-10-28T12:57:00Z

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 STS - An STS integrated with AD. Supports issuance (finally) and consumption of Cardspace Cards. CardSpace Geneva - A federation client In addition to these framework like components, there are also a couple of services (biult using Geneva) including...(read more)

MVP 2008 - thanks again!

2008-01-01T23:48:00Z

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 this past year (with my speaking at several conferences, speaking at user groups, and leading a user group as well). Happy New Year everyone!...(read more)

WCF 3.5 will support Usernames over Transport Authentication

2007-10-31T14:21:00Z

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 in this post it will finally be available in WCF 3.5. Great!...(read more)

Heartland Developers Conference 2007 wrap-up

2007-10-22T10:20:00Z

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 forward to attending and presenting. I am originally from the mid-west (Oklahoma) and have lived in Massachusetts for 12 years now but I always feel more at home when I go to HDC than anywhere I have visited. The layout of the area, the local convenient...(read more)

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

2007-10-16T10:47:00Z

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. Both Joe and Phil have done an excellent job in putting this together. My topics are: Service-Oriented Design Patterns Building Queuing Database Applications with Service Broker For the Service Broker talk, I have updated my material to include the...(read more)

Speaking at New England Code Camp 8 this weekend

2007-09-24T21:03:00Z

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: What are the ingredients? There is already a great lineup of talks here . Also, Chris Bowen mentioned there will be a Saturday Evening Geek Event at 7:00 pm at the Weston Hotel in Waltham (a tradition that started way back in Code Camp II). This...(read more)

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

2007-09-09T20:14:00Z

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 BlackHat USA 2007 in July on the current state of web services security. I will be covering the common web services attacks developers should know about as well as current information on WS-* security, REST, and other mitigation measures. If you are...(read more)

Take a look at LiveId + CardSpace

2007-08-29T17:47:00Z

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!). Well, here it is: LiveID + CardSpace . Also, take a look at the latest samples for WCF, WF, and CardSpace for VS 2008 Beta 2....(read more)

Another TDD and DDD success story

2007-07-16T19:24:00Z

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 -- all were bright, willing to learn, and up to the daunting task of converting skills from pre .NET right into .NET 2.0 and object-oriented programming. I taught a course to the company earlier last year and they asked me to come and help with the architecture...(read more)

39

2007-07-10T12:03:00Z

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