I've been pretty happy so far with an implementation to secure my webservices using an IHttpModule to capture the SoapHeader early in the pipeline and authenticate before getting to the webservice call itself.  This eliminates the need to deal with authentication in each WebMethod call.Another area I'm looking at is securing the WSDL -...

I've been pretty happy so far with an implementation to secure my webservices using an IHttpModule to capture the SoapHeader early in the pipeline and authenticate before getting to the webservice call itself.  This eliminates the need to deal with authentication in each WebMethod call.Another area I'm looking at is securing the WSDL -...

I've had several conversations on OO languages in the past couple of months.  Going back to the migration from C to C++, developers became dependent on the 'new' operator and many times did so without understanding the consequences. In C++, 'new' = malloc() + non-inline function call (constructor).  So I started wondering - what...

Since I've blogged about my wireless service in the Hudson, WI area before and received a large number of emails asking my impressions, I feel the need to update things here. While previously with Nomad Wireless service in Hudson, they were suddenly bought out by Stonebridge Wireless Broadband out of Eden Prairie, MN.  I say suddenly...

Since I've blogged about my wireless service in the Hudson, WI area before and received a large number of emails asking my impressions, I feel the need to update things here. While previously with Nomad Wireless service in Hudson, they were suddenly bought out by Stonebridge Wireless Broadband out of Eden Prairie, MN.  I say suddenly...

Given the time I've spent writing services and working from the command-line recently, I'm finding this registry hack very handy . Now, I can type cd c:\do, press tab and it replaces it with cd "c:\documents and settings" - hit tab again and it displays "c:\dodgeball", etc..   You can continue this pattern down the directory tree and...

Given the time I've spent writing services and working from the command-line recently, I'm finding this registry hack very handy . Now, I can type cd c:\do, press tab and it replaces it with cd "c:\documents and settings" - hit tab again and it displays "c:\dodgeball", etc..   You can continue this pattern down the directory tree and...

Here's a topic I thought I'd lend a little google juice since Microsoft has created a hotfix.  This problem is nasty - difficult to diagnose and difficult to track down.  We have an application where we are sharing a NAS device with Unix servers.  We were seeing in our pre-production and production environments that a group of...

Here's a topic I thought I'd lend a little google juice since Microsoft has created a hotfix.  This problem is nasty - difficult to diagnose and difficult to track down.  We have an application where we are sharing a NAS device with Unix servers.  We were seeing in our pre-production and production environments that a group of...

A coworker asked me a question today about initialization of static member variables and how they relate to static constructors.   He also told me about an article he read that the following code isn't safe:   if( _myObj == null ) {             Lock( _lockObj )...

A coworker asked me a question today about initialization of static member variables and how they relate to static constructors.   He also told me about an article he read that the following code isn't safe:   if( _myObj == null ) {             Lock( _lockObj )...

The latest word on anti-virus firms  focuses on their inability to adjust to the rootkits that are running around in the wild these days.  Companies such as Symantec, McAfee and Trend Micro do not have rootkit detection and removal capabilities.   While rootkit detection and removal appears to require an architectural...

Here's the code for a command-line utility I've written for gathering EventLog information from remote testing/production machines on our network.  I've found the utility to be pretty handy and can be xcopy'd without any other assemblies.  While the utility writes all information out to the Console, it is...

Last night, I grabbed my video camera and hooked it up to my pc to create a DVD of some home movies. I haven't done this in a while, so I dusted off my copy of Pinnacle Studio 9, installed all the patches and started working.  This program just randomly crashes - sometimes with errors, sometimes it just disappears.  The product is not...

On my new project,  I've been helping to trace down problems with 3rd party/backend libraries exhibiting bad behaviors.  In tracking down these behaviors, I've been using TCPView to watch connections and see how the application is behaving on the wire.  TCPView is a product written by Mark Russinovich and made available at...