This Week C9: IE8 most secure, Unix turns 40, SQL DBA eBook

Posted By: Brian Keller | Aug 20th @ 10:46 PM | 47,017 Views | 15 Comments

This week Brian Keller and Amanda Silver review the week's top developer stories including:

 

-          IE8 most secure browser according to NSS labs

-          Unix turns 40 (here and here)

-          Riviera: Windows Azure reference application

-          Azure Platform Training Kit

-          Complete and searchable list of Windows 7 keyboard shortcuts

-          STM.NET – Who. What. Why.

-          PDC Classics: 2001

-          Free SQL Server DBA eBook

-          Introduction to the SQL Server 2008 Profiler by Pinal Dave

-          IT scripts galore at the TechNet Script Center

-          Physics Helper 3 adds WPF support!

-          Sketchflow Viewer for DotNetNuke

-          SWF to Silverlight converter

 

 

Amanda’s pick of the week: MakeOfficeBetter.com

Brian’s pick-of-the-week: The Lessons of Microsoft Bob
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#Aug 21st @ 6:18 AM
gduncan411
gduncan411
It's amazing what a professional photographer can do...

As always thanks for the shout-outs. Smiley

 

Looks good that I'll be at PDC09... You'll have to let me buy you lunch.  Wink

#Aug 21st @ 10:29 AM
Bass
Bass
Channel 9, best used in moderation

UNIX turns 40 and Debian turns 16 Smiley

#Aug 21st @ 11:19 AM
gbrayut
gbrayut

I hope everyone votes for this feature:

 

http://www.makeofficebetter.com/Idea/376/macros-in-managed-code

 

Managed code in Office is well overdue!

#Aug 21st @ 12:06 PM
wisnia
wisnia
Tomasz Wisniewski

If MS designed their products UI's in PowerPoint and Paint that explains why many windows, boxes etc. are so unlogical Wink

#Aug 21st @ 5:05 PM
rhm
rhm

Streaming on channel9 is still so poor that this is buffering every minute or so. Keep hearing from Scott Gu how awesome Silverlight streaming is, yet Channel9 could not be any worse an advert for it. Never get any buffering problems on any site that uses Flash player.

#Aug 21st @ 5:14 PM
joechung
joechung

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Medal_of_Technology

 

Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie won the award in 1998.  Bill Gates won it in 1992!

#Aug 21st @ 9:36 PM
staceyw
staceyw
Before C# there was darkness...

@ rhm "Streaming on channel9 is still so poor that this is buffering every minute or so"

 

I typically don't have any issues and non with this video.  There can be many factors including your local connection that can be the issue.   My guess is even if this flash, you would have the same issue at the same time.  SL progressive download and/or smooth streaming is nice as long as the connection supports the bit rate.  If your bit rate falls below the min bit rate, you will have issues with any kind of stream.  If you can point to a specific issue with SL, please let them know.

#Aug 21st @ 10:08 PM
staceyw
staceyw
Before C# there was darkness...

That took me down memory lane.  I was a unix sys-admin for many years.  If someone asked me today what I did, I would say a lot of ps, cd, ls, and grep.  Thinking about it now, I felt very busy, but not sure it was productive. 

#Aug 22nd @ 6:56 PM
JoshRoss
JoshRoss
A righteous infliction of retribution manifested by an appropriate agent.

I don't understand all the hullabaloo about a security report created for and payed by Microsoft, for a Microsoft product.  I'd take more stock in a Moody's rating for a collateralized debt obligation.  That's so 2008.

 

EDIT: See the gold standard of cesspools, The Coffee House.

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