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...

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...

I will be speaking this weekend, March 31-April 1, at the New England Code Camp 7: Deer in Headlights located at the Microsoft, Waltham, MA offices. I have two topics this time: How to Perform a Secure Code Review Protecting Data with SQL Server 2005 There are still some registration space left. Check...

I have been busy with a great architecture project lately that I have mentioned previously . I have also been finalizing slides and demos and making travel arrangments for upcoming speaking events. October 24-27 - VSLive!, Boston, MA - "Leveraging .NET 2.0 Security Features" (Black-Belt session...

A little late, but I have posted the slides and code for my talk last week at the Connecticut .NET User Group meeting last week. I went through and updated several resources as they still pointed to a combination of pre-Release and Release material. Now, everything is current. It was great to see there...

I will be speaking at the Connecticut .NET Users Group meeting tomorrow night, August 22, at the Microsoft Farmington Office . I will be speaking on writing applications that use and take advantage of SQL Server 2005 Service Broker. If you are in the area, and have wondered about this new framework for...

I have posted slides and demo code from my talks this month at Code Camp 5, DevTeach, and VSLive! on my site here . I have also posted each of these individually on the respected sites for the conference. Each of these conferences went well. There were lots of great questions, and as with all speaking...

I haven't blogged for awhile (missed a month! -- wow, where does the time go?). I have been working various short-term gigs for several months now, typically flying onsite to a few locations, as well as one-three week assignments. I also spent a couple of days teaching a VB 2005 class at a company. Those...

I mentioned last month I was interviewed by John Alexander and Jeff Julian for a podcast at the Heartland Developers Conference 2005 . The interview is now live . Here is the description of the show: Our guest this week is Robert Hurlbut, Microsoft Security MVP. We discuss Security Best Practices, encryption...

I spoke to the New England SQL Server User Group last night in Waltham, MA on SQL Server Security . The group was a good mix of DBAs, wanna-be DBAs, developers forced at times to be DBAs, and developers. I covered the problems with trying to secure SQL Server (various types of attacks, etc.) as well...