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  • Office 2013 Service Pack 1

    Well this is a first for me. I would of had never been talking about a service pack in the past, especially not for Office. But times change and by delivering the first Service Pack for Office 2013, they did something that really caught my attention. As some of you know, i have been busy Read more

  • Mega Security, Just like the Big Boys Do It.

    I was doing a little architecture for a client who kept on saying : more security, more security ! Considering their site is hosted over SSL, with no public APIs to attack, all the best practices in place, using usernames and passwords – I was wondering what more could we do; what was I going Read more

  • Presenting at DotNetMontreal

    I would like invite you all to a presentation I will be doing on the new style apps for Office, which are based on html and put you on a roadmap to integrating with Office 365. This will be an architecture talk and will include a few demos and show some code. But the kicker Read more

  • Azure Web Sites and ~/App_Data

    A few weeks ago, I had to demo an older web site to a client and chose to use Azure Web Sites to rapidly deploy outside of my laptop and make the web site available quickly over the internet. One small challenge though, the web site used data in a directory on the filesystem, which Read more

  • The importance of authentication and auditing

    A few days ago I was travelling out of the country and received an email saying that my Microsoft account has had suspicious activity. Since I keep a lot of stuff on the internet, I immediately took a few minutes to investigate and act. Here are my thoughts: Changing your password is easy, but when you Read more

  • Clouds, ADO.NET and Pools

    As time goes by, I find myself architecting most projects the same way : using cloud patterns. The reason is simple, I find there are so much advantages to using newer techniques and technology that looking back doesn’t interest me. For ADO.NET, when working with cloud ideas and patterns, that might mean having to do Read more