my order at Amazon.com finally shipped, this book is fresh from the oven and fresh from the C# "Chef", Anders Hejlsberg, the language’s architect, and his colleagues, Mads Torgersen, Scott Wiltamuth, and Peter Golde. So why i call it fresh from the oven? because it is, the book is published on October...

This is the first time I develop for SharePoint, something that I wanted for a while, yet never got a project to do so. I have been a SharePoint user for many years, normally because all companies I have worked they use it as their document repository, “link provider”. There are a few steps that are...

While reading Joshua Kerievsky book "Refactoring to Patterns" could not go silent about abuse of Singleton pattern he described. The question that was asked in the book "When is a Singleton unnecessary?" - "Most of the time". Honestly, I can recall at least a few times when...

Recently was looking for a book to use while I was training some developers and I came across " Beginning C# 3.0: An Introduction to Object Oriented Programming ". Jack Purdum does an excellent job of explaining OOP, as well as the basics of development. I have had our developers reading through this...

Luís just broke the news on our LINQ with C# book. I was honored with the invitation from Luís to write this book with him for FCA , for which he has already published a few books [ ^ ] [ ^ ] [ ^ ] before. This will be an entry level book in Portuguese targeted to anyone wanting to learn LINQ with C#...

I have posted the slide decks and demo code I used for my talks this past weekend at the New England Code Camp 7 - Deer in Headlights conference. You can find the files here . My talks were: How to Perform a Secure Code Review Protecting Data with SQL Server 2005 Both talks went really well, I think...

While I was walking up the slopes with Frans to watch the World Championships Big air qualifications in Arosa, Switzerland during our annual Software Architecture Workshop, we talked about the support for Domain Model patterns in his product LLBLGen Pro. I shared my thoughts on language extensions and...

Congratulations to fellow MS Developer Security MVP Dominick Baier on finishing his book Developing More-Secure Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 Applications . This is available through Amazon and other locations this week. I have been looking forward to this one for awhile. If you get a chance (and you really...

I am working in Western Massachusetts these days and I had a chance to check out the local Western Mass .NET Users Group meeting last night. Julie Lerman gave a great talk on the new asynchronous features of ASP.NET 2.0. Here is her write up . It's been awhile since I looked at some of these features...

I bought Michael Howard 's and Steve Lipner's book The Security Development Lifecycle here at TechEd 2006 today. Michael has a description and purpose of the book as well as a table of contents on his blog . One thing I noticed immediately is the list of Threat Tree Patterns in its own chapter. I remember...