I am trying to see if there is any interest in doing a special Developer Security event in San Diego… Now I know what developers say “security is boring and my code is not vulnerable” (come on you know you think it). I want to know what would motivate you to come out for such an event. I would love to have people stand-up and tell some war stories about security, I would giveaway some good books and I hope have a lavish dinner… so would you come?

I am currently looking at doing it May 1st.

WOW I have no clue how this passed me by but for IE7 Beta there is a Developer Toolbar that can be down loaded and shows you a lot of way cool details about your current page. If you are doing any web dev you need this toolbar!

Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar (EDIT: Thanks to Scott Hodson for pointing out I had the wrong link!)

I am at MIX in Las Vegas and so far it has been a interesting event but I suck at writing up my experiences during events so if you want more if a real time breakdown of the event check out Method ~ of ~ failed, it’s a blog that is run by Tim Heuer a fellow DE out of Phoenix.

Looking for a good photo manipulation software?

MAX

Let me know what you think… I am still breaking my Picasa habit

I got to participate in the 2006 MVP North American Engagement Tour in Microsoft's San Diego office. As a result I am going making a new feed category for MVPs so they can subscribe only to content that I think they will be interested in. The propose for this is so I can hopefully start working with Southern California MVPs to get them engaged in the local community as well as the excellent work they do online.

Don’t know what a MVP is? Check out the MVP site on Microsoft.com http://mvp.support.microsoft.com

Have you ever wanted row and cell level security SQL Server? Well now with the tools that the Federal MCS team has released you can have it. Check out the post on there blog for details.

SQL Server 2005 -- Tools for row and cell level security

The Beta 2 version of MS Application Threat Modelling tool from the Application Consulting & Engineering team.

To down-load it go here if you want more information go here.

Yep BarCamp Los Angeles is over and all I can say is wow! This was great, why was it great? The people and the people and the people… you get it the people that put on this event took a great idea and executed it in LA extremely well and timed it perfectly. The timing is\was just before the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference in San Diego so there were more people in town for BarCamp from out of town then there would have been normally.

It was quite surprising how the event shaped up, there was far less coding content then I expected so I never offered to show ATLAS but I was asked to demo Office 12 so I did sign-up for 15 minute slot but alas no one showed up to see it which was good with me as though I used Office all the time I have never demoed it so it would have not been a good experience for me.

I hope the full list of sessions get posted so I can see how much I missed but I did get many interesting topics. One of them looks to me a life changing topic… Panel presentation with Mistress Chi Chi (AKA Carmen De Jesus) did a great topic on GTD (Getting Things Done). The concepts in GTD I thing could be a great way for me to conduct my life. I will try to document how my experience with GTD go.

I hope to get the majority of people who were at Barcamp LA down to CodeCamp San Diego in June.

OK so this was quite a random post about my experience at BarCamp but my mind is still just swimming with the experience.

Check out the Barcamp LA event so far… what a great event!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/barcampla

In my new job I have had some issues in trying to find the time to say as up on the breath of topics that I am interested in so I have started to down-load several a podcasts again. I use to down-load .NET Rocks all the time but I had stopped for some reason a while back so I went back and while I love Carl and Richard’s show it quite often covers content that I know quite well so I have now found through .NET Rocks two new shows that I am currently enamored with. The first is a Pwop production called HanselMinutes which is hosted by Carl but features Uber geek Scott Hanselman talking about cool geek stuff! The other is Polymorphic where Craig Shoemaker has some great content about .NET and a lot on Ajax.

I am sure there are other good podcasts out there but for the last two weeks these have been keeping me happy. Please let me know if other podcasts that are good.

The user groups of LA have decided to start a new series of events called the NET Masters Lecture Series. The first event will be March 25th with Kevin McNeish as the presenter. It sounds like a great event I hope we can fit all the people who will want to come! Sign-up quick!

For all the information go to http://www.ladotnet.org/EventDescription.asp?115