Patrick Hynds

(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)

Security Is a War!

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)

An Introduction to the Editors-in-Chief of Information Storage & Security Journal

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)

i-Technology Opinion: Will Cyber Storm "Break the Internet"?

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)

DNDJ Editorial — New Year, New Technology

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)