eWorld.UI - Matt Hawley

So I'm watching BillG's keynote at VSLive, and within the first 10 minutes he talked about the SPOT watch.  My question is, did he wear the watch just for his KeyNote, or does he wear it on a daily basis.  Anyone know?

Version 1.0.1 of the NewsGator NNTP Plugin to allow posting to newsgroups has been released.  This version fixes a major bug in the extension when receiving posts in NewsGator.  The previous versions would incorrectly associate bad data to the post, which resulted in incorrect threading of posts.  If you're running the NNTP Plugin, this update is a MUST!

On Monday, my team at work got together and a pow-wow about security and how we can be more pro-active in developing applications.  As we went through sessions 2 & 3 from DevDays, we had a lengthly discussion on how we should proceed in securing the connection strings.  As most of you know, the OpenHack, and "best" method for securing connection strings, is by using DPAPI to encrypt it, and then store that encrypted string in a ACL'd registry key.

Yesterday & Today I decided to start being more proactive in newsgroups, and as such I wanted to start dogfooding my NNTP NG Posting Plugin. I definately have to say that reading & responding to newsgroup postings is extremely easy.  Since I really never posted to newsgroups, I never really used it, I just developed it because there was a need in the community for it.  However, after using it several times, I'm definately stoked about it...and I would have to say that dogfooding is always a good idea on whatever application you're using. Maybe I'll find something I like or don't like about it that I can change.  Gotta love it.

Well I thought long and hard all day about installing XP SP2 RC1 on my laptop that I use for work and home.  I think I'm going to take the plunge since I've seen some pretty positive comments about RC1 being pretty stable.  So, lets just hope tomorrow I won't be rebuilding my laptop, and rather be working more securely & testing out SP2.  If I find anything quirky, I'll definately post it.  Wish me luck :)

I just ran across some free briefings put on by MSDN about security for developers.  It just so happens there's a briefing tomorrow in my town...yay! I'll be there!

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C|Net is reporting that a new interim "technology preview" of Visual Studio 2005, aka "Whidbey", will be distributed next week at VSLive in San Fransisco.  This is awesome!  I hope they plan on releasing that same build to MSDN subscribers.  Any word from the Microsoftee's ?