Ricardo Gonzalez BLOG : Miscelaneous

Windows Live Writer

Ricardo Gonzalez Vargas — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 16:27:55 GMT

I've just downloaded the Windows Live Writer tool , and this is my first post with it. One of the main reasons to me for not being a frequent blog writer, is the lack of nice tools to do it, so I think I'll start posting more than before....

try it, it's really nice and easy to configure allowing you to manage more than one blog account.

Cheers,

Ricardo Gonzalez Vargas

Software Development Consultant

Microsoft Regional Director

Microsoft Most Valuable Professional

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VS Express editions made free license

Ricardo Gonzalez Vargas — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 00:29:00 GMT

This is very important news for all students, enthusiasts, and many people that would like to review and use the products. Even with the limitations compared with the other editions, VS Express editions cover a wide spectrum in software development.

The announcement includes

VC++ Express edition

VC# Express edition

VB Express edition

SQL Server Express Edition

Visual Web Developer Express Edition

Visual J# Express Edition

Check all details @ http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/

Cheers,

Ricardo Gonzalez Vargas

Software Development Consultant

Microsoft Regional Director

Microsoft Most Valuable Professional

http://www.devsynergy.net

rgonzalez@mvps.org

MVP again, nice news.

Ricardo Gonzalez Vargas — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 00:15:00 GMT

Recently I’ve been informed about my designation as Microsoft Most Valuable Professional Visual C++ for 2006.

more info ( http://mvp.support.microsoft.com )

Nice news.

Ricardo González Vargas

Software Development Consultant

Microsoft Regional Director

Microsoft Most Valuable Professional

http://www.devsynergy.net

rgonzalez@mvps.org

Naive securty faults

Ricardo Gonzalez Vargas — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 00:10:00 GMT

Today I was as speaker @ Microsoft Architect Forum. Security practices talk.

Definitively, there are many naive security faults that IT Managers, Architects, Designers, Coders and testers do while construct software.

The basics include:

- Principle of less privilege problems à users can do more than they need.

- Assume that a firewall is a complete security solution.

- No antivirus or software patches updates.

- Buggy code

- There are more options in apps than most of the user really use.

- Trusted user input (what an error!!!)

- Fool cryptography (key management, crypto algorithms)

- Think that technology is the security solution (in most of the cases, the problem starts with people and processes)

- Bad use of security tools provided by the platform

Those are the most important conclusions.

Keep them in mind.

Cheers.

Ricardo González Vargas

Software Development Consultant

Microsoft Regional Director

Microsoft Most Valuable Professional

http://www.devsynergy.net

rgonzalez@mvps.org

Cool Feature on Office 12

Ricardo Gonzalez Vargas — Fri, 07 Oct 2005 17:54:00 GMT

Support to “save as PDF” on office 12 was one of the new features announced by MS on the last MVP summit at Redmond.

More info at http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2005/oct05/10-02OfficePDF.mspx

Cheers,

New Elearning Initiative

Ricardo Gonzalez Vargas — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 15:15:00 GMT

Microsoft has started a new strategy to promote and facilitate access to new technology. You can find electronic content focused on different technologies like Windows Server 2003, Visual Studio 2005 and more. Start your track !!!

http://msnd.microsoft.com/elearning

Cheers...

Bad Day for starting a BLOG

Ricardo Gonzalez Vargas — Thu, 18 Nov 2004 10:47:00 GMT

Today, I woke up and just turned on my laptop and just didn't started. I checked the battery, the power adapter, everything seems to be ok but the laptop does not start. Two weeks ago my laptop hard disk just crashed and nothing could be recovered.

I think somebody cursed to me.

I'll check today for the warranty.

Better luck for all of you.