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Book Review: Professional ASP.NET 3.5 Security, Membership, and Role Management with C# and VBJanuary 6

Professional ASP.NET 3.5 Security, Membership, and Role Management with C# and VB is, other than a heck of a long title, probably one of the most useful books I've read through in recent memory.

You know when you're working on an in-depth item related to, say, ASP.NET membership and you search the web only to find 100 tiny articles that almost cover what you're looking for? You know how you wish someone would make a book that would just aggregate all of that knowledge and maybe take it just a little deeper?

This is that book.

The high level table of contents is as follows:

Chapter 1: Introducing IIS 7.0
Chapter 2: IIS 7.0 and ASP.NET Integrated Mode
Chapter 3: HTTP Request Processing in IIS 7.0 Integrated Model
Chapter 4: A Matter of Trust
Chapter 5: Configuration System Security
Chapter 6: Forms Authentication
Chapter 7: Integrating ASP.NET Security with Classic ASP
Chapter 8: Session State
Chapter 9: Security for Pages and Compilation
Chapter 10: The Provider Model

2008 RetrospectiveJanuary 3

Well, Christmas is over, it's the New Year, and it's time once again to look back and see what went on for me in the last 365 days or so.

January 2008

I started January by updating my multi-user iTunes instructions to account for Vista and adding some similar multi-user instructions for Picasa. This setup is still working well for me today, in fact. We signed up for Verizon FiOS to save a little money and get a better Internet connection. Not sure if we're actually saving that much, but the Internet connection is pretty cool. Now, if only they'd increase their HD on-demand offerings. Finally, I ended the month with Xbox problems, which is not uncommon for me.

February 2008

Lots of interesting developments happened with Typemock Isolator in February, particularly the addition of debugger integration, which

CaBiN fEvErDecember 22 2008

The snow on the bush shows how deep it is - that bush is flat on top.

From Arctic Blast 2008

I am going out of my fucking mind with this snow. I hate snow.

Seriously. I've been stuck at home for like four days now and the snow just keeps getting deeper, indicating that I'm going to be stuck here until time ends, or at least until next weekend when it's supposed to get warmer and melt off a bit.

Yesterday ended with about 10" of snow and a quarter-inch sheet of ice on top of that, so you had to break through the ice if you wanted to walk around.

I tried to take the garbage out yesterday, but I can't because the snow has piled up so high I can't get the gate to the cans open. I've repurposed a recycling bin as a temporary garbage holding area until I can get to the cans. No, the irony of using a recycle bin as a garbage can is not lost on me.

The local news stations are calling this "Arctic Blast 2008." I guess they all get together and decide what to call various weather systems so the reporting is consistent. I guess "Arctic Blast" is as good a name as any.

HP Photosmart D7260 - Great PrinterDecember 19 2008

A few months ago I was looking for a replacement printer and scanner. I tried out a couple of all-in-one solutions (Canon PIXMA MX850 and HP C7280) and was consistently disappointed in the scan quality so returned both of them and decided to get a separate printer and scanner.

For the printer, I ended up getting an HP Photosmart D7260.

The quality on it is amazing, just like the C7280 was, but for $70 cheaper and with a better LCD screen on it. The D7260 can connect directly to your network over ethernet, which is how I have it hooked up, and it lets me sit in the living room with the laptop and print wirelessly over the network - nice. There are slots for several different memory card types right on the front, too, so you can take the card out of your camera, plug it

Dancing Muppet SlinkiesDecember 18 2008

We were talking today about Sesame Street and the Muppets and some of the stuff that we got traumatized with as children watching TV in the US and I remembered the dancing slinkies - one of my favorite Muppet skits next to classic Mahna Mahna.