Scott Hanselman

This is pretty sweet. Congrats to Corillian! :)

Corillian Corp. (NASDAQ: CORI), the top provider of online banking and anti-fraud solutions to leading financial institutions, today announced it has received certification under security standard BS:7799, the most widely-recognized framework and standard for developing and certifying a company’s security management system. Corillian is the first U.S. online banking company to receive this certification and one of only 23 U.S. business organizations to be certified under the standard. This certification covers Corillian’s entire business operating environment.

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Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author.

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I'm not at PDC, I stayed home. We've got some exciting stuff going on at Corillian and I've also got to speak at our user's conference next week, so PDC wasn't well timed for me. However, there are a number of Corillian folks wandering around down there.

Stuart Celarier is an engineer here at Corillian who is also, in his spare time, a liaison for INETA in charge of the setup of the Birds-of-a-Feather sessions at PDC. (Here's an interview with Stuart at Channel9). That said, it's important to note that while Stuart administers the BoF tracks and manages the speakers, it is ultimately Microsoft's PDC and Microsoft's space to offer to INETA. It was Stuart's job to collect submissions but Microsoft's ultimate decision to accept or reject sessions.

Miguel de Icaza posted on his blog last week how frustrated he was (rightfully so) with the way his Mono BoF was handled. However, there is a lot of bureaucracy underneath INETA and Stuart that is totally out of his control. Microsoft's position is likely that Mono isn't their product and it's neither supported nor endorsed by Microsoft. Obviously, there's a lot of strong opinions about Mono.

Both Stuart and I have spoken to Miguel about this and we're cool. Yes, it's lame the way it was handled by the Powers That Be. However, I wanted to say publically that we at Corillian very much like what Mono is doing and continue to explore it with interest. Additionally, I personally totally dig what Mono is doing. DasBlog 1.6 has been "adjusted" to run on Mono (and ships with the Mono Live CD) and it's on my list of things to do to get DasBlog 1.8 running on Mono.

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For some reason this week literally 5 people emailed me to tell me how great Fiddler is and that they wonder why it's not on the Ultimate Tool List. Well, to be clear, both Fiddler and Eric Lawrence are the bomb. Fidder is basically an "HTTP Debugger" (implemented as a local proxy) has a nice eventing system to support scripting. Why haven't I used it? I just haven't really needed it. Nearly all my debugging of HTTP/ASP.NET has been done happily with the simple elegance of ieHttpHeaders with the occasional use of TamperIE. Certainly my tools are simple while Fiddler is very rich in functionality so it's not really fair to compare them. I see from the Fiddler page that you can really mess with HTTP Headers and what-not with Fiddler. That said, I'm going to download the new release from last week and give it some mindshare as this tool has definitely struck a chord with many folks.

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Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author.

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This was helpful today. I had a machine with the Aug CTP of SQL Express 2005 but I can't remember if I included an sa? I don't even remember if there was one. I think that it was a silent install and there's a strong password created for it then it's disabled, so I need to fix that. Anyway, I needed to enable mixed mode for my samples' existing connection strings to work, and I haven't got any SQL Client Tools lying around, I was on a VM.

I enabled mixed mode in the registry by chaning this key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.1\MSSQLServer - LoginMode =2

Then I made a new user for my purposes

C:>SQLCMD -S.\SQLEXPRESS -E
sp_addLogin 'usernamepoo', 'passpoop'
GO
sp_addsrvrolemember 'usernamepoo', 'sysadmin'
GO

Back in business...seems to me that simply shipping a decide admin tool would obviate the need for this nonsense. Sure there's one to download, but it still seems like duplication of effort. And, for the CTPs, the current version of the Express Manager is June, which is less helpful for me in August.

Now playing: Counting Crows - Mrs. Potters Lullaby

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Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author.

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I totally want to get this Free Mini Mac. You can see the advert on the top of my site. Basically the deal is that you give them your information and sign up with one of their affiliates. The assumption being that you'll start a business relationship with the affiliate. They are ones like BMG (free CDs) or Columbia House (free DVDs) or BlockBuster (ala Netflix) that you've heard of, and lots you haven't. You sign up and you get an ID, so you can refer people yourself. It's a scheme, but it's legal. My buddy Greg Hughes got one using this system.

If I have a Mac, I'll start running Mono on that Mac, and get DasBlog 1.8 running on it, and who know what could happen. (Yes, I know DasBlog 1.6 runs on Mono on Linux now, but I'm stretching here.) Regardless, the wife will never let me get a Mac unless it was free.

I've done a little analysis and the one that's the easiest and most useful is called InkBlvd. You have to spend at least $30 (which is easy when you're buying ink.) Anyway, if I can get 9 more people to click this link and sign up for a deal, I'll get a Mini Mac. Then, if you do the same, you get a Mac.

So, if you need printer ink or dvds or cds or want to sign up for blockbuster...:)

UPDATE: I've got 11 out of 10 so far, so that's rockin' sweet. I'll let you know how it goes when the new iMac shows up!

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Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author.

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