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I'm holding an internal discussion arising from one of our regular Core Capability conference calls at the moment and I thought that it would be useful to surface part of that to the outside world to get feedback. The premise is to see if it is possble...
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We are pleased to announce that the Alt.Net UK Conference will be returning in September, and that there will be room for more attendees this time! The plan is host the event at Conway Hall in London [1] and our thinking is to follow the same sort of...
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I attended the Oxford branch of the NextGen User Group meeting tonight (1st July) and heard two good talks on WCF and Dynamic Languages from Geff Lombardi and Ben Hall respectively. Details at of the event are here . These and every other talk I have...
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In this post I will show one way to restrict access to the named pipe created by the WCF named pipe listener, to provide a partial workaround for the security flaw mentioned in my last post. The strategy is to target directly the internal property AllowedUsers...
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In my previous post I explained how the named pipe for a WCF NetNamedPipe endpoint is named, and how a client discovers this name in order to connect to the service. This time, I'm looking at the Windows-level security. Both the named pipe itself...
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In a previous post I wrote about the security threats to smartphone devices following the release of a significant mobile device virus in the Far East. Its seems I am not alone in my concerns. In a recent survey of IT managers 94%, of 300 IT managers...
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I recently got hold of the latest Windows Mobile 6 ROM Update for the Orange E650 Smartphone. Note this does not upgrade the device to Windows 6.1 just patches issues in the Windows Mobile 6 release. We are still waiting to discover whether an update...
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This is the first in a series of posts in which I will aim to explain some details of the named pipe binding provided by Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), discovered during the course of some exploring I have been doing. My motivations for looking...
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Due to some other work commitments, I almost missed this, but Windows Mobile 6.1 was announced last week. Some of the headline Windows Mobile 6.1 features are as follows: Provides a lot of usability improvements due to new UI screens and plug-ins...
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Well - it has finally happened. After a number of false starts and numerous of captive creations in various labs, McAfee has reported in the past few weeks, that the first real Windows Mobile virus/trojan to be experienced in the "wild" has...
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Roger Whitehead, Prinicipal Technologist will be giving to the NxtGen User Group Oxford Branch next Tuesday 11th March 2008 at RM offices in Abingdon, Oxfordshire at 7PM. The talk will build on Roger's previous Introduction to Windows Mobile Development...
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A shameless plug for a talk I will be giving to the NxtGen User Group Oxford Branch next Tuesday 11th March 2008 at RM offices in Abingdon, Oxfordshire at 7PM. The talk will build on my previous Introduction to Windows Mobile Development talk and will...
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del.icio.us/alan.dean This is a social bookmarking web app. It is definitely in my top three most-used sites (at the time of writing I have just short of 7,000 bookmarks saved). At the simplest level, it is far easier to save your bookmarks in del.icio...
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Note that there are some links in this post require Charteris credentials. Last week I chaired the initiation meeting for the Charteris Core Capability group. I was asked to put together some material on 'my digital life' discussing the web applications...
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Here was me feeling that I wasn't learning stuff with a great deal of utility (to me, that is) and along comes a little golden nugget... I am familiar with the role of reverse proxies (especially their role in scaling RESTful applications). I have...
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