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Documenting Charteris technical press coverage and events at which Charteris plc staff are speaking.
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Another Chance To See....
I gave a talk to the Oxford branch of the NextGenUG in January 2009 on the subject of Location Based Programming with Windows Mobile & Virtual Earth. Unfortunately the demo failed because of networking issues/config and as a result I ran out of time to fully explain the code sample.
Weather and traffic conditions permitting, I am hoping to do a reprise of the last 15-20 minutes of my talk as a "nugget" at the February meeting of the NxtGen User Group, Oxford Branch. The aim this time is purely to focus on explaining the integration of Windows Mobile code and Virtual Earth Web Services. In short I want to show a working demo and re-explain the code and concepts fully in a focussed way. The date of the next meeting is Wednesday 4th February 2009. It will be at the RM offices in Didcot from 7PM. Further details of the location and timing are here at the NxtGenUG site.
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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 talk and will provide a hands-on introduction to the development, unit testing and deployment of Windows Mobile 6 applications. Roger will be explaining and demonstrating the coding fundamentals behind successful Windows Mobile applications. Coding samples and solutions will also demonstrate some of the latest features of Visual Studio 2008 and Compact Framework 3.5.
You can find full details the event and how to attend etc at the NxtGen User Group site
If you can make it would be great to you there.
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On the evening of Tuesday 31st July 2007, Roger Whitehead will be giving a talk to the Oxford Branch of the NxtGenUser Group entitled "An Introduction to Windows Mobile Development". The meeting is being held from 7-9PM at Research Machine's offices in Abingdon.
This session aimed at those developer and IT professionals who are new to the growing area of Microsoft Windows Mobile technologies. In this session Roger will be looking at the fundamental concepts that underpin Microsoft Windows Mobile development. The areas to be covered include:
- Windows Mobile hardware and software architecture,
- Device targeting
- Usability issues
- Security issues
- Design and development approaches that underlie best practice in Windows Mobile development.
- The key features of the latest Windows Mobile 6 release.
- Useful tools and resources.
Anyone is welcome, but if you are interested in attending you need to register with NxtGenUG. You can do that via http://www.nxtgenug.net/ViewEvent.aspx?EventID=66
Hope to see you there...
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Three Charteris development consultants will be speaking at the 5th Developer Day held on the 30th June at Microsoft UK's offices in Reading. Chris Seary will be presenting "Ten Important Tips for Securing your Web Application"; These ten security tips are hard won knowledge, but so simple to explain. Let Chris's mistakes save you time and embarrassment! Some of the tips include: How does PKI work? Why can't the database authenticate me when IIS was happy with my credentials? What's the absolute best advice for implementing cryptography (or even spelling it!)? Gary Short will be presenting "Agile Methods for ISVs"; We've all heard of agile methods but when they are spoken of it is mostly in the context of the enterprise. Being an ISV and being agile is a different kettle of fish. In this talk I'll explain the differences between life as an ISV and life in the enterprise and then I'll show you how to adapt agile methods for use in the ISV world. Barry Dorrans will be presenting "An Introduction to CardSpace"; Windows CardSpace is a framework developed by Microsoft which securely stores digital identities of a person, and provides a unified interface for choosing the identity for a particular transaction, such as logging in to a website. This talk will cover how CardSpace works, how it can be used within your own ASP.NET applications and how you can implement your own trusted cards and the security token service behind them. Full details on this free event can be found on the Developer Day web site.
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Charteris senior application development consultant Barry Dorrans will be presenting his talk "Hacking Web Sites for Fun & Profit" at the Irish Microsoft Technology Conference on the 7th June in Dublin. The session aims to cover the safety of your ASP.Net web sites by looking at parameter munging, cross site scripting SQL injection and information leakage with demonstrations on how exploits are used ran against some deliberately bad code.
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Charteris consultant, Ivor Bright will be speaking at the Microsoft Architect Insight Conference, in Newport, Gwent, on the 5th-6th March 2007 on Active Directory Federation. The session description is as follows; "In this session we'll start with a whiteboard chalk/talk in which we'll outline the problems and known ways of tackling the problems of federating identities, both across organizational boundaries and across platform and technology boundaries. In MS parlance this means ADFS, but as these technologies overlap so much with other technologies which follow the same WS-Federation standards from other vendors this will be a great starting point for a discussion.
We'll then break the delegates in to a few small groups and have you discuss the sorts of issues you face in your own organisations. Following that we'll create a prioritised list and debate the issues. There may be many issues that arise, and because of time we may not get to all of them, but by prioritising the list we will have covered the most important ones first.
It will be a very interactive session where the discussion is facilitated by an expert(s) in enterprise federation issues."
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Charteris consultants, Barry Dorrans and Chris Seary, who speak regularly on topics relating to security and web applications are presenting an entire day on Web Security in association with the Scottish Developers Group on the 12th April, 2007. The agenda is as follows; 08:45 Registration
09:00 Hacking websites for fun and profit
10:30 Break
11:00 Securing applications and communications in ASP.NET
12:30 Lunch
13:30 Code Access Security - in-depth explanation and design pattern for web applications
15:00 Break
15:15 Securing Web Services with WS-*
16:45 Break
17:00 Managing Identity using Windows Cardspace
18:30 Close Registration details can be found on the Scottish Developers announcement page.
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Barry Dorrans, one of our Senior Application Development Consultants, will be presenting about CardSpace at WebDD on Saturday, 3rd of February. Windows CardSpace is a framework developed by Microsoft which securely stores digital identities of a person, and provides a unified interface for choosing the identity for a particular transaction, such as logging in to a website. The talk will cover how CardSpace works, how it can be used within ASP.NET applications and how you can implement your own trusted card. WebDD is a free event; sister to the popular DeveloperDay events. "Standards. Design. Future. Three topics that are on everyone's wish list, but that often get left by the wayside as time rolls by. If you're interested in all three, then WebDD is for you. WebDD is a new conference covering both design and development, with a focus on design standards, best practices, and emerging and future technologies. There will be a variety of talks covering topics such as Accessibility, CSS, Standards, ASP.NET, and Ruby, with the aim of bringing developers and designers together to share ideas. If these sound like the sort of topics you want to learn about then sign up. The best part - it's free and on a Saturday, so you don't even need to take a day off from work. WebDD is not a Microsoft event but is organised by the web community for the web community with Microsoft as our premier sponsor."
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 Developer Day, the ever popular community event held at the Microsoft offices in Reading, has two Charteris Application Development Consultants speaking.
Barry Dorrans will be giving a presentation entitled "Securing applications and communications in ASP.Net" which aims to provide you with recipes to secure your ASP.Net applications, be they internet, extranet or intranet exposed. Covering authentication and authorisation strategies, identity management, securing communications, secrets, viewstate and more the session will discuss common best practices for secure implementation of ASP.Net applications. Chris Seary will be talking on "Securing web services and applications using WS-*", will giving an overview and design patterns for using WSE (Web Service Enhancements) and WCF, as well as look at what's going on under the covers. Explanations will be given of when WS-* should or should not be used. Also, tools such as the X509 Certificate tool will be covered, and an overview given of how WS-Federation works to achieve single sign on.
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 Barry Dorrans will be presenting "Hacking Web Sites for fun and profit" at the December meeting of the Next Generation Usergroup, Oxford Branch (Wednesday 6th December, Research Machines offices, Abingdon). The session aims to cover the safety of your ASP.Net web sites by looking at parameter munging, cross site scripting SQL injection and information leakage with demonstrations on how exploits are used ran against some deliberately bad code.
Chris Seary will be presenting a nugget on "Securing Web Services with WSE".
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