A Blog for Graymad

Too much to blog about, so I'm going to let some pictures talk this time:

BillG's talking about how Moore's law, and the rapid increase in availability of computing power has helped with the advances in OS (GUI, thanks to x86 processing, etc), and how increases in hardware performance enable more features in the OS.

More security tips from the Web Perspective Pre-con:

Been hearing a lot this morning about the fact that LAX was closed, due to the wildfires that are going madly here in the L.A. area.

From his ASP.NET Security Pre-Conference talk: Knowing the default accounts under which the ASP.NET worker process is run (ASPNET on IIS 5.0, Network Service on IIS 6.0) allows you to set ACLs on resources that your application may need, so as to allow ASP.NET to read, write, or take other actions on these resources. You can also use the element in machine.config to change the account under which the ASP.NET worker process is run. Note that you should always encrypt any passwords stored in machine.config (you can use aspnet_setreg.exe utility to store credentials in the registry and then refer to them from machine.config...see KB article #329290 for more details)

Finished our pre-lunch ASP.NET overview talk. Jeff Prosise followed my overview with a good drill-down on data-bound controls.

Slides...check. Demo code...check. Looks like I'm just about ready. It's pretty clear that some people forgot to set their clocks back last night, as we've had several people come in before 9am (I start at 10) thinking that they were running late. Of course, if I hadn't had reminders from the hotel, the conference manager, and several other bloggers, I probably would've forgotten myself. :-)

My first blog entry from smoggy (and smoky) L.A.: