Glavs Blog

Its hard keeping up with Wally. As a result, he has pumped out podcasts like a machine which I have not kept track of. Here are the last couple of ASP.NET podcasts for your listening pleasure. I have been meaning to do one soon as I have a store of stuff to talk about, but I am struggling with time at the moment. At any rate, here they are:

I was chatting to Darren Neimke over the weekend very briefly about some Atlas things and he mentioned that he would have a post on gadgets coming up soon. His post will no doubt have more detail than mine, but I thought I'd mention this anyway. I hadn't played much with Gadgets but after talking with Darren, thought I'd give it a shot.

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I have spent a little time updating my personal website (http://www.theglavs.com) as of late. Firstly to make some management and administration items a little easier for myself (as its actually getting some interest and a healthy number of hits) and secondly, I wanted to Atlas enable the site with the latest March CTP bits.

Since there has been so much interest in the SecurePasswordTextBox control (see my previous post http://weblogs.asp.net/pglavich/archive/2006/02/26/439077.aspx and http://weblogs.asp.net/pglavich/archive/2006/03/12/440052.aspx ), I thought I would take the time to iron out the bugs. When I first released it, I performed minimal testing (i.e. about 15 minutes worth) and just thought if anybody else is interested, then I might put some real effort in.

Recently, I developed a version of a textbox that uses the SecureString class for its internal storage, called the SecurePasswordTextBox (can be downloaded here http://www.theglavs.com/DownloadItem.aspx?FileID=46 ). Its actually been used in a webcast by a guy called Dan Sellers in MSDN Canada. Check out the post here ( http://blogs.msdn.com/dansellers/archive/2006/03/08/546679.aspx ).

Well a milestone has been reached for me. I just submitted my final chapter for the upcoming book on "Beginning AJAX on ASP.NET" that I working on with Wally McClure, Scott Cate, and most recently Craig Shoemaker.

If you are interested in Security, then try not to miss the upcoming Security chats being held towards the end of this month and the beginning of April. The URL for these chats is here http://www.microsoft.com/australia/eforum/chat.aspx and feature one my good friend Rocky Heckman. Rocky is one of readify's security guys (well actualy readify's main security guru) and knows his security stuff.