(SYS-CON Media) – I am often struck by how good some ideas are and
often wonder whether they are happened upon by accident (dumb luck), like the
discovery of Teflon and penicillin, or whether there was just a really good
idea that made it happen. I think what we are seeing in the evolution of .NET
is a bit of both. .NET has arrived in my opinion. I base this on the really
powerful community I see surrounding it, especially from where I sit here in
the North East just north of Boston.
I also note that the conversations have ended that contain the often-heard
phrase, "If .NET really catches on." It has caught on and in my world, at
least, it is dominating projects due to productivity and innovation.
Some of that innovation comes from Microsoft (thankfully) as evidenced ... (more)
This month we dedicate our issue to security. This is a topic I find
developers either love or hate; there are few who can take a neutral stance
on it. As the security editor of this publication, you can probably guess
which side I come down on for the question of my feelings about security. I
am standing in for Derek this week in the editorial department. I think about
security all the ... (more)
Last month we skipped the introduction to summarize some of the things we
hope to bring to you in the coming year. This month we are circling back to
our backgrounds in the hopes that this will help explain why we might be
suited to fulfill the agenda hinted at last month.
Bruce can be thought of as the storage side of the team, though that is a
gross oversimplification. It is no exaggerat... (more)
Information Storage & Security Journal Co-Editor-in-Chief Patrick Hynds
writes: The U.S. deparment of Homeland Security is performing a readiness
test this month called Cyber Storm, after rescheduling. The Cyber Storm
exercise is about ensuring and testing against a computer based attack or
hack against public infrastructure targets as well as some parts of the
private sector. This has c... (more)
A lot is changing in .NET this year, but it all feels like progress. Now that
Vista is released, we get to stop using Community Technical Previews (mostly)
of things like WPF, WF, and WCF. The ASP.NET group has been busy bringing us
AJAX tools that take a wild technology and pretty much turn it into point and
click. I recall doing presentations shortly after Google Maps came out when
the... (more)