Kenny Kerr

Many months ago I wrote an article about credential management that was targeted at developers writing managed code. Well its finally made its way onto MSDN. Managing secrets with managed code can be tricky so I think this article will be helpful to you if you need to manage credentials from your managed applications.

2005 was an interesting year for me. Let’s take a quick peek.

As you may have heard, FinalBuilder 4 has just been released. If you’re not yet sold on a build tool then you should seriously consider this. This is by far the best build tool I’ve used. We use version 3 for a number of production builds and my latest project is already being built with version 4. We’re so happy with it that we’re picking up a site license as part of our 2006 budget.

I’m in the market for a specific digital camera. Unlike in the US, here in Canada the main retailers don’t carry a large selection. I recently came across www.cameracanada.com which seems to have a wide selection and a polished website. My only problem is that I’ve never heard of them before and I can’t find any links to them on the web. My concern is with credibility.

Having just completed my 27th lap around the sun I feel rather tired.

For various reasons, mostly related to my day job, I often find it useful to simulate excessive CPU usage. I’m sure every developer that has been coding for a while has at one point written the following program.

For all those MVPs who didn’t managed to find me in the crowd at the Summit, Raffaele Rialdi managed to get a photo of a few of the security MVPs hanging out with Michael Howard.

I just noticed that Martyn Lovell has started blogging again at a new home on blogs.msdn.com