Joe Stagner's Blog : Misfit Geek [Silverlight]

The Windows Web App Gallery

MisfitGeek.com - Misfit Geek [IIS] — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 12:25:49 GMT

We launched the Windows Web Application Gallery at MIX on 3/18 with 10 open source and community applications, including DotNetNuke, DasBlog, Umbraco and Subtext. We are now experiencing thousands of application downloads per week! Are you working on...(read more)

SQL Data Services - SQL Server in the Cloud !

MisfitGeek.com - Misfit Geek [IIS] — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 15:00:28 GMT

REALLY distributed architectures are playing a bigger and bigger role in application development these days and Azure is an exciting bit of "Cloud" based technology. Check out ..... SQL Data Services Microsoft® SQL Data Services (SDS) offers highly scalable...(read more)

Microsoft Web Application Installer

MisfitGeek.com - Misfit Geek [IIS] — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 14:48:30 GMT

The Web Application Installer Beta is designed to help get you up and running with the most widely used Web Applications freely available for your Windows Server. Web AI provides support for popular ASP.Net and PHP Web applications including Graffiti...(read more)

Patterns & Practices: Application Architecture Guide 2.0 Knowledge Base

MisfitGeek.com - Misfit Geek [IIS] — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 00:35:35 GMT

J.D. and the very smart folks over in the Patterns and Practices group have been at it again and have published another GREAT development resource. Patterns & Practices Application Architecture Knowledge Base Authored by .... - J.D. Meier , Alex Homer...(read more)

Release Candidate of IIS PowerShell Snap-in

MisfitGeek.com - Misfit Geek [IIS] — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:33:45 GMT

Now available for download: Release Candidate of IIS PowerShell Snap-in The Release Candidate of the IIS PowerShell Snap-in now available. A lot of work was done between Tech Preview 2 and now. The team focused mainly on augmenting the PowerShell Provider...(read more)

HTTP Debugging Proxy

MisfitGeek.com - Misfit Geek [IIS] — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:46:33 GMT

I've long been a Fiddler fan. It's been a super valuable tool for debugging SOAP and REST based code. http://www.fiddlertool.com/ It rocks, but I often need to debug on the Mac, especially now when doing network programming in Silverlight. So I recently...(read more)

I'm Deep Fried - It's live today !

Microsoft's Opinionated Misfit Geek - Misfit Geek [IIS] — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 17:05:07 GMT

The Deep Fried Bytes guys caught up with me at DevLink and we had a talk about developer security needs, mistakes, activities, etc ! Listen Here http://deepfriedbytes.com/ Read More......(read more)

Free Data Structures and Algorithms Book from the Slackers

Microsoft's Opinionated Misfit Geek - Misfit Geek [IIS] — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:19:14 GMT

Data Structures and Algorithms: Annotated Reference with Examples This book written by Granville Barnett and Luca Del Tongo is part of an effort to provide all developers with a core understanding of algorithms that operate on various common, and uncommon...(read more)

How to Program Visual Basic 2008 - a master text.

Microsoft's Opinionated Misfit Geek - Misfit Geek [IIS] — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:11:34 GMT

Deitel books are great learning tools and often used as course text or soup to nuts learning guides. Also the physical quality of the book (printing, paper choice, color, etc) make it a collectors item if your a book lover) I had the pleasure of being...(read more)

Announcing SecureDeveloper.com

Microsoft's Opinionated Misfit Geek - Misfit Geek [IIS] — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:29:23 GMT

For many years I've had an interest in and a focus on Application Security. Now, I'll be ramping up and doing a bunch of security related work in my role here at Microsoft. I hope you will add www.SecureDeveloper.com to your blog reader. I expect to include...(read more)

Summer ASP.NET Missions

Microsoft's Opinionated Misfit Geek - Misfit Geek [IIS] — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:23:36 GMT

Spring is ugly in my job. From early March until late June I'm on the road. Conferences, Meetings, etc. Then when I finally get done my spring traveling.... There is "make up" work to do. I have to "make it up" to my two little princess and my wife. Work...(read more)

LifeCycleSecurity conference - Aug 8 & 9 - Las Vegas, Nevada

Microsoft's Opinionated Misfit Geek - Misfit Geek [IIS] — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:53:33 GMT

T Check out this 2 day security brain fest. It happens to be right after Black Hat in Vegas. See you there ? The LifeCycleSecurity conference was started to provide a venue where professionals in the Application Security industry can learn from each other...(read more)

My Secure Development Interview from TechEd 2008

Microsoft's Opinionated Misfit Geek - Misfit Geek [IIS] — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:55:36 GMT

While at TechEd 2008 I got to spend some time in the "Fish Bowl" with Georgeo Pulikkathara . Georgeo interviewed me on Microsoft's Secure Development Lifecycle (SDL) and my upcoming Developer Security Activities. Please [ click HERE ] to check out Georgeo...(read more)