Random .NET Ramblings

The Windows Defender team has released the fist fully supported version of Windows Defender. What is Windows Defender? From the products web site:

Windows Defender is a free program that helps protect your computer against pop-ups, slow performance, and security threats caused by spyware and other unwanted software. It features Real-Time Protection, a monitoring system that recommends actions against spyware when it's detected and minimizes interruptions and helps you stay productive. Now with 2 free support incidents for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003.

This is great for the consumer who some times just dose not understand how dangerous the web can be ;)

For more information see the Windows Defender product page or just Download!

I am not sure how many people who read this blog (all two of you) would be familiar with BarCamp but wow you soul be! The good news is that BarCamp LA version 2 is coming back read the BarCamp LA-2 entry on the BarCamp wiki.

BarCampLA will be happening at Little Radio Warehouse again, this was a good place last time quite quirky/funky place, great for getting you in the BarCamp mood.

The question is what the heck am I going to contribute? Any suggestions? I am thinking something about WCF but last time there were a lot of non-tech related topics so I am going to come up with something non-tech as well.

This will be the third set of Live From Redmond webcasts that have been done, each time I get a lot of good feedback of how good the events are. I hope if you are not familiar with this type of webcast that you check out this set of events for topics that interest you. For all the details check out Simon Muzio blog entry about the announcement.

I don't know if I am going to attend (trying to get the T&E now) but Seattle Code Camp v2.0 will be happening at the end of October on the 28th & 29th at DeVry University in Federal Way (not that I know where that is) but if you are interested check out the web site Seattle Code Camp v2.0. If you are from Southern California and you are planning on going please let me know so I can say hi if I go.