Daniel Fisher (@lennybacon)

It’s community summer again. The same procedure as every year. In the middle there is some refreshing ICE.

The ICE-Conference in Lingen is something special to me because it is an admin event. I’m a developer. Maybe It’s caused by my roots – yeh, I was an admin once. Maybe caused by the fact that I tend to build bridges between admins and devs and build my developments aware of infrastructure.

This year I spoke about professional development on the client stack. I explained Javascripts OOP concepts from the .NET development perspective. Introduced JQuery and explained how it’s plugin model works. 

The session was rated along with others as 3rd bets of the conference – Thanks for attending and voting!

As always the networking with the *admin guys* was as great as the after-ice-party. I really enjoyed to meet up with a lot of people I’ve haven’t seen for a while.

Last but not least: Many thanks to Nicki Wruck and the ICE-Team for this great event.

Since the year 2005 the non-commercial organization JustCommunity e.V. organises once a year the NRW Conf community event. Over the time it has become one of the biggest community events in Germany.

This years conference will be on the 8th and 9th of September located in Wuppertal, Germany.

We will host over 20 speakers and sessions from Germany and Europe, and as last year there will be a workshop day upfront:

• ASP.NET MVC
• SCRUM
• PowerShell

Last but not least let me throw in some buzzwords, before you head over to the registration: Windows Phone 7.5, Agile, SQL Server, ASP.NET MVC, REST, Windows Azure, Rails, SCRUM, Powershell, Sharepoint, Oracle, Kinect, MS Office, Git, Performance-Analysis, TMG, UAG, FEP, FPE, FSSP, FPSMC, FIM, FOPE.

Click here to sign up…

Am 21. Mai war ich Sprecher auf dem .NET Day Franken. Ein weiteres tolles Event für die .NET Community. Vielen Dank an Thomas Müller, und Bernd Hengelein und Michael Wiedeking!

Zu meinem Vortrag “ASP.NET MVC Localization” hier meine Slides und Demos: Download

Am 6. Mai fand in Köln die dotnet Cologne statt. Neben meinem Sprecher-Engagement hat es mich sehr gefreut, dass unsere Firma, devcoach, dieses gelungene Community-Event als Platin-Sponsor unterstützen konnte. Ein großes Dankeschön an Albert Weinert, Roland Weigelt und Stefan Lange!

After I saw what Dennis was preparing (from his messenger status) I decided to give our neighbors in the Netherlands a visit and join his Session …

about “Command Query Responsibility Segregation” at the DotNED user group.

He talked about how this style differs from the classic architecture. The audience had a lot of fun discussing on the differences, cons and pros.

It has been quite a while that I had architecture discussions in such a big circle and I really enjoyed the topics that were hit.

As I expect Dennis to give a talk at the NRW Conf I won’t go in the details any further… I really liked it and you should give it a try on the 10th of September this year in Wuppertal.

You can find his Sample here: http://thecqrskitchen.codeplex.com/
CQRS in de keuken

The NRWConf registration will open next weekend - get your seat: http://www.nrwconf.de

Nur noch wenige Tage

Auch in diesem Jahr veranstaltet der Just Community e.V. wieder das größte Developer und IT-Pro Community Event. Unter dem Motto „Check-In zum Wissensvorsprung“ holen wir am 28.08.2009 zahlreiche nationale und internationale Speaker nach Wuppertal. Neben den Vorträgen haben Sie natürlich auch dieses Jahr wieder viel Zeit für das Networking mit anderen ITlern aus Nah und Fern.

Alle Informationen, wie die Agenda und eine Übersicht über die Speaker gibt es unter http://www.nrwconf.de/.

Wir freuen uns, Ihnen auch dieses Jahr sowohl bekannte Gesichter, als auch neue Speaker vorstellen zu dürfen. Die Veranstaltung wurde in diesem Jahr möglich durch unsere Sponsoren: Hewlett Packard, devcoach, Microsoft Deutschland, Brockhaus AG, Itemis AG, sepago GmbH, MT AG, sowie weiteren Unternehmen.

Eine weitere Neuerung in diesem Jahr ist der Workshop Day, der am Vortag der eigentlichen Konferenz – sprich am 27.08.2009 – in den Räumlichkeiten unseres Sponsoren Ontaris GmbH stattfindet. Der Developer-Workshop befasst sich mit der Microsoft Web Platform und behandelt die Themen Rich Internet Applications mit Silverlight 3.0 und Web 2.0 Applikationen mit ASP.NET AJAX und JQuery. Die Workshops haben eine begrenzte Teilnehmerzahl (je acht) um den Lernerfolg zu garantieren. Also schnell einchecken…

Der Eventsommer geht weiter… am 5. und 6. Juni fand der erste Architecture.NET Open Space 2009 in Düsseldorf statt.

Ein sehr interessantes Format und sehr interessante Themen. Lars, bitte im Winter 2008 gleich nochmal

btw. Lars wird unsere Usergroup am 02.07.2009 besuchen…

Am 5. Juni war ich als Sprecher beim “Project Springboard” zu Gast. Dennis Zielke und das Student Partner Team haben ganze Arbeit geleistet und ein Spitzen Event auf die Beine gestellt – nochmal nochmal nochmal!

Mein Vortrag “IIS, PHP & WCF – Web Services InterOp” hat wirklich Laune gemacht und ist laut Feedback bester Vortrag der Konferenz – DANKE, IHR WARD EINE SUPER AUDIENCE!!!

Hier nun wie versprochen das Slide und der Code (PHP gehostet über FastCGI im IIS 7.0 ruft über SSL und Basic Athentication einen WCF Service mit einer Complex-SOAP-Message auf…): springbreak_IIS_PHP_und_WCF.zip

On the 15th of Mai the Cologne/Bonn .NET Community invited to the Microsoft Campus in Cologne for a day full of WPF and Silverlight – the dotnet Cologne 2009. My submission to the Call for Papers was the only Talk NOT talking about User Interfaces… but was accepted – Thanks, to Roland, Albert and Stefan!

I was happy that my presentation was not held in room 404

I really enjoyed the session as well as the whole event and as promised I provide what I presented for download: Silverlight as DataCache (Slide & Code)

Hoper to see you on one (or all) of the next events:

• 5th of June - Springboard
• 5th-6th June – Architecture.NET Open Space 2009
• 22th of August – ICE 2009
• 28th of August – NRW Conf 09 (My very own event)

The user group met today at netzkern, a company in Wuppertal specialized in .net development and SiteCore - thanks the venue and drinks! Thanks to Matthias for the pic!

This time we had "Sliverlight 2 in the real world" as a topic presented by Florian Kruesch. He presented new visual features as well as use cases and projects he's working on. Because he didn't touch the non-visual stuff like Isolated Storage he invited me to show something that I've build with the bits:

The "Silverlight Cache" for javascript - most commonly used to cache json returned by web services.

A lovely way to reduce traffic

The first day of PDC is almost gone. I met my former Boss Clemens Vasters had a nice conversation during lunch with John Lam and "a guy with a blue shirt" that I'm not allow to cite here .

Micheal Willers, Ron Jacobs and I talked about SOA, Dublin, OSLO and the sometimes hard job trying to explain people the problems they will have in the feature (commonly known as archtecture :-P).

I was a bit disappointed by the "ASP.NET 4.0 roadmap" because I expected more "visions" and ideas -  Phil Haack showed mostly stuff that is available today (actually really today on codeplex...).

thinktecture and newtelligence AG present a week of Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Windows Workflow Foundation (WWF): TornadoCamp WinFX.

Christian, Ingo, Michael and me will present from the 16th - 20th of october in Bad Ems in GERMAN!

Developer day[1] (DDD) in Reading (U.K.) was again really a great experience. My talk together with Michael[2] went fine and we really enjoyed the great audience. And the weather was sooooo sunny - unbelievable.

It was nice to meet Melita Walton, Craig Murphy[3], Benjamin Mitchel[4], Ian Cooper, Phil Winstanley (Plip)[5], Dave Sussman[6], Guy Smith-Ferrier[7] and so on.

Take a look at the pics Plip posted http://www.flickr.com/photos/plip/sets/72157594154434387/

[1] http://www.developerday.co.uk/ddd/
[2] http://staff.newtelligence.net/michaelw/
[3] http://www.craigmurphy.com/
[4] http://benjaminm.net/
[5] http://weblogs.asp.net/plip/
[6] http://aspadvice.com/blogs/dsussman/
[7] http://www.guysmithferrier.com/

There we go. Doors are open for NRW06!

20 Speakers, max. 250 attendees a lot of community and networking.

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After you did you can put this onto your blog or website

A while ago I posted that I and my company were searching for ASP.NET guys...

Sergey Shishkin joined newtelligence in March this year and started to blog yesterday.

He will do a presentation about a project related to Office Open XML and WinFx he is doing on out next user group meeting (18th May) in Düsseldorf, Germany

MDFExec
 Executing CREATE statements from within Visual Studio 2005

Snippy
 Editor for creating and modifying Visual Studio 2005 Code Snippets

WebServer Here Context Menu

Exclude From Sharepoint

NDoc Macro

Cropper
 Screenshot tool

Ruler

Folder Size Browser

Convert.NET
 C# 2 VB.NET Converter

ChalkTalk

Mistaya
 LDAP Explorer

WinMerge

Thomas list...

Friday night Andreas Hoffmann (2nd lead of the VfL-NiederRhein user group) picked me up ad we drove the long way down to the south.

Our destination for Saturday morning was the “Chaostage” event of the .NET user group Deggendorf  (http://dotnet-deggendorf.sefnet.de/). I had a session “Introducing the concepts and architecture of ASP.NET“ in the morning and a second one “Hello WebServices – Message-Oriented Programming for distributed systems” in the evening.

We checked in at our hotel in Garching (I won’t tell the name but I’ll tell you a bit about the worst service). Because the waitress served me frozen potatoes with my steak I stood up and walked over to the bar. Just in this moment a voice behind me asked “Is this a codezone keychain? Are you gonna be at Microsoft on Monday?” It was Nicki Wruck (http://spaces.msn.com/members/icebloginfo/PersonalSpace.aspx) the organizer of the ICE 2005 Community together with Frank Solinske (http://spaces.msn.com/members/solinske/PersonalSpace.aspx) IT-Pro Security Guru. Only one nano-second later we drank the first beer together. The geek meet was so exciting that I was just about to forget the bad service of our hotel J

Sunday we fetched Stephan Oetzel (http://stephanon.net/) in Poing. We picked up Michael Willers (http://www.staff.newtelligence.net/michaelw/) Developer Security Guru from the Airport to merge the Security guys in the “Hofbräukeller”. Uwe Baumann (http://blogs.msdn.com/uweinside/) discussed about technical stuff with Andreas and me meanwhile. Later Nicki joined us together with Nico Lüdemann (https://www.openbc.com/hp/Nico_Luedemann/) and Carola Helfert (https://www.openbc.com/hp/Carola_Helfert/).

Monday - Launch Day – started with the Community GetTogether. Stephan and Andreas and I presented the results of the .NET Summit NRW (our community event). As always the time to do some “networking” was toooooooo short - even if we had at least the day before to talk to a few guys. The Launch Party was great. Steve Balmer’s Launch talk was transmitted per satellite into the Lobby of Microsoft in Germany – Great. The only problem again: So many people and such a small amount of time  

Me and Benjamin Mitchell

Barry Dorrans

Me and Ian Griffiths(Pluralsight)

Richard, Me, Craig Murphy, Tim and VBUG man

Me and Amy Sorokas(Microsoft)

Phil Winstanley

Oliver Sturm

Speakers in the Space Bar

The Geek Diner

Wow, what a weekend. Just so short cuz my desk is quite full - but I promise to tell more tomorrow.

Monday: I met Andreas Hoffmann (2nd UG Lead of the VfL Usergrop) and Peter Nowak (Head of FIAEon.net, a community for .NET related vocational education) at Starbucks in Düsseldorf.

Tuesday: Benjamin Mitchell notified me that one of my sessions was voted by the british community and I'll have a session at the Developer Developer Developer Day.

Wednesday: I'm in contact with the Student Partners in Wuppertal now (better said Anselm Haselhoff because Marcel Wiktorin is moving and has not replied yet ).

Thursday: Usergroup meeting in Düsseldorf: Sebastian Weber (Developer Evengelist at Microsoft Germany and member of the VfL-UG) answered all our members questions about SQL Server 2005 and Tuan Nguyen (Lead of annos.de and VfL-Member) talked about the Annos project. Great, thanks guys.

Friday: I updated the VfL-Site and fixed a few bugs.

It was the second time this year I went to Warsaw (Poland). The Microsoft Technology Summit happend for the first time and was a big success. An amazing event: Two days, about two-thousand attendees, six parallel tracks, four a day. I had about three-hundred listeners in each of my sessions ("Layout and Personalization with ASP.NET 2.0" and "Data-Driven Application with ASP.NET 2.0"). The feedback in the breaks was great.
Thanks to everybody at Microsoft Poland especially Artur and Dominika.

I met Rafal Lukawiecki

Fred Baumhardt and Maciej Pilecki

And had an interesting discussion with Yogesh Bhalerao.



The audience while i was speaking

And the view out of my room in the Meriott.

http://www.mts2005.pl/

Torsten Weber invited me to do one day of sessions at the .NET Summercamp: I introduced .NET 2.0 and C# 2.0 and talked about Visual Studio 2005 Team System.

It was the first time in Leipzig and i really liked it. Hopefully i'll be there next year too.

First of all thank you to everybody who helped (Microsoft, INETA, S&S, E-Team...), spoke (Christian Weyer, Dirk Primbs, Achim Oellers, Dr. Holger Schwichtenberg) nad attended the event.

A few things learned:

• Min. Session time is 60 min.
• Print out the list of attendees ordereb by lastname ascending
• Call restaurant to make sure the speakers diner will be served :-P

The feedback until now was very good and Stephan and I plan to do the ".NET Summit NRW 2006" next year. bigger, better, more

Today 10:36 the last left attendee registration for the event I'm organizing with Stephan Oetzel came in.

More info: .NET Summit NRW.

After quite an amount of time, work and effort, that it had cost to realize my ideas I'm proud to present together with Stephan Oetzel to you an extra large community event:

Nach einer ganzen Menge Zeit, Arbeit und Anstrengung die es gekostet hat meine Idee zu realisieren bin ich nun stolz zusammen mit Stephan Oetzel eine Community Event der Superlative zu präsentieren:

And here is the lineup:

Christian Weyer [thinktecture], Michael Willers [newtelligence, VfL-NiederRhein member], Jörg M. Freiberger [avanade, VfL-NiederRhein lead], Dirk Primbs [MS], Stephan Oetzel [flowoffice, NET UG Düsseldorf lead] and me Daniel Fisher(lennybacon) [newtelligence, VfL-NiederRhein lead]

And the Agenda:

So what are you waiting for: Sign up!

http://www.event-team.com/events/NETSummitNRW/

At this point it's time to thank a few guys out there Thomas Fickert of Microsoft Gemany and Damir Tomicic of INETA for the support, the speakers who are almost doing their talks for free, Björn Klotz, Sabine Nüser and Christian Chrisu Sudi of E-Team for everything they did for me and last but not least my girlfriend. Thank you all.

It's happening again. MichaelW and me are back on tour for TornadoCamp Xpress, the .NET 2.0 event of newtelligence. Today we started. We meet MichalK of Microsoft, he's a nice and smart guy, our local contact and I'm doing this post right in the middle of our C# 2.0 HOL.

I miss my familiy @ home - love ya! cu soon.

Cheers to the rest out there.

Die Plätze sind begrenzt -VORANMELDUNG PER MAIL ERFORDERLICH.

http://www.vfl-niederrhein.net/

http://staff.newtelligence.net/michaelw/Default.aspx

http://www.zakk.de/

In the past weeks i have looked at several template based solutions for ASP.NET 1.1, because i can't wait for .NET 2.0.

Region MasterPages and it's variations all around the web
No WYSIWYG/VS.NET support - No solution for me.

Masterpages reinvented
Nice try, but i don't want to add so much lines to the code behind.

I also realized SiteMesh.NET (http://joe.truemesh.com/blog/000275.html - hey Joe fix that damn JS error!!!), but i don't like that approach.

So i decided to think about other concepts and wrote something that solves following for me:

• MasterPage
• WYSIWYG in VS.NET
• CodeBehind
  
• Other pages
• WYSIWYG in VS.NET
• CodeBehind

... with one line of code in the client pages.

I'll talk about my solution on the VFL-NiederRhein UG Meeting in november or december. So if you are interested keep an eye open.

Michael Willers: Security oder Praxis?

Den Satz "Security ist wichtig" haben Sie schon so oft gehört, dass er Ihnen fast schon aus den Ohren heraus kommt.

Viel schlimmer noch: Sie sind fest entschlossen, es in Zukunft richtig zu machen und auf Sicherheit zu achten. Und müssen dann doch bei Ihren Kunden frustriert feststellen, dass der altbekannte Satz "Security ist, wenn nix geht" eben doch eine unumstößliche Tatsache zu sein scheint. Oder positiver formuliert: "Wenn nix geht, geht auch nix kaputt."

Stichworte:

• Warum braucht eine Anwendung Adminrechte? Der Application Verifier und der
  Process Explorer geben Antwort!
• Wie und wo speichert man Anwendungsdaten, die zum Benutzer gehören?
• Wie richte ich Visual Studio .NET so ein, dass es auch unter einem *
  NORMALEN * Benutzeraccount richtig läuft?
• Wie mache ich den SQL-Server sicher? Rechte automatisch setzen!
• Internals: Benutzerrechte werden über Access Control Lists und Privilegien
  geregelt. Wie setze ich das in meinen Anwendungen ein?
• Wie schreibt man * saubere *  Setuprogramme mit dem Windows Installer?
• Debugging: Wann brauche ich wo welche Rechte und wie vergebe ich diese?
• Und für die Webentwickler unter uns: ASP.NET kann man auch ohne
  Adminrechte und ohne Änderung des ASP.NET Accounts debuggen!
  
  Mehr dazu unter:
  http://www.microsoft.com/germany/ms/msdnevents/techtalk/themen.htm#56
  
  
  Hier die Termine zum anmelden...
  
  02.11.2004 18:00 Uhr - Dortmund
  http://msevents-eu.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?culture=de-DE&EventID=118750780
  
  03.11.2004 18:00 Uhr - Leipzig
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  04.11.2004 18:00 Uhr - Berlin
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  05.11.2004 18:00 Uhr - Hamburg
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  18.11.2004 18:00 Uhr - Würzburg
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  19.11.2004 18:00 Uhr - Karlsruhe
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  22.11.2004 10:00 Uhr - Stuttgart
  http://msevents-eu.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?culture=de-DE&EventID=118750788
  
  24.11.2004 18:00 Uhr - Frankfurt/Main
  http://msevents-eu.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?culture=de-DE&EventID=118750789
  
  25.11.2004 18:00 Uhr - München
  http://msevents-eu.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?culture=de-DE&EventID=118750790
  
  26.11.2004 18:00 Uhr - Köln
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