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 Tuesday, September 02, 2003
.NET Code and Intellectual Property
Here's an interesting idea via Bill Wagner - a code copyright watermarker...it creates an obfuscated function that contains your copyright notice.  Clever...of course when you look at the generated code, you can see it isn't required and it's easily removed.
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PDC - The Blogging Begins...

Kevin Schuler's PDCBloggers.net is up and it looks like it's going to be HUGE - much bigger than TechEdBloggers.  Already the list of blogging Attendees is 46 and growing! 


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TechEd 2003 - DEV389 - Learning to love WSDL has been saved!

I reported in August of the Tragedy Of The Missing TechEd DEV389 Session on the Conference DVDs. Fortunately, my Malaysian buddy Fun Jim Lim pointed out that my session is available online!  Glory of glories.  Now the 3 people who've shown up here via Google looking for it will actually find something!

TechEd 2003's DEV389: Learning to Love WSDL is here: http://microsoft.sitestream.com/DEV/DEV389_files/default.htm


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Yet another useful Utility - Snippet Compiler
My blogging buddy Jeff Key (maker of the increasingly useful NetPing) has posted yet another snazzy util, a Code Snippet Compiler.  As .NET folks, we all find ourselves creating junk Console applications with a Console.WriteLine just to test a snippet of code!  His utility sits in the tray and is always ready when you want to whip out a quick line or two. Very cool.
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Rapid Fire Blogging

Well, we're back from Malaysia, and I'm officially on my first vacation in recent memory.  I've had a couple of bloggable things on my mind, but I've been limited by time and internet access.

I arrived home and checked my hanselman.com email from my home machine.  (I'd been checking my email remotely with OddPost, which is only the greatest remote email client since, well, ever.)   I use POP3, as I don't trust my server enough to use IMAP, and I leave the mail on the server and retrieve it from three or four different locations and client.  We were gone for 10 days, and as I hit Send/Receive I notice the status bar informing me that I have 1784 emails.  Seems a smidge much for only 10 days.  Of this mails about 1600 were spam and the remaining ~180 were legitimate emails that I'll need to deal with. 

That's it.  It's whitelisting time.  I refuse to deal with this much spam.  For the last few months I've been using Spamnet, but I can't justify paying $1.99 a month to prevent email I didn't ask for!  So, I will now use the Junk Mail features in Outlook 2003 to automatically JUNK all email until I've added emails to a local whitelist.

Next step is to look into a server-based whitelisting system for all my hanselman.com email account users and family members.  Anyone have any suggestions?


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