Link Interface 30.

The news of the day : My favourite book, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams is going to be made into a movie ! And they have a blog too … Too bad they don’t have an RSS subscription yet … Ok, back to business.

• A KB Article that provides a fix for a very common error in ASP.NET. Fix for “Server Application Unavailable” error message if a DLL is loaded in the 0x33A20000 address space and you request an ASP.NET page.
• A very detailed article on Code Access Security (CAS) and Design Patterns.
• Latest Channel 9 Video with Ward Cunningham – How did you come up with the idea for the Wiki ?
• Read about the review of the new book : Hackers & Painters by Paul Graham.
• There is a free online course on security at the microsoft E-learning center. Check out Clinic 2806: Microsoft® Security Guidance Training for Developers. This online clinic provides students with knowledge and skills essential for the creation of applications with enhanced security. Students will learn about the need for implementing security at every stage of the development process and best practices for applying security principles. Students will also learn how to use established threat modeling methodologies and tools with other best practices to minimize vulnerabilities and limit damage from attacks. Finally, students will learn how to implement security features to enhance security for Web applications and Web services that are built by using Microsoft ASP.NET. via Sudhakar Sadasivuni
• IronPython: A fast Python implementation for .NET and Mono. A pretty neat article with lots of benchmarks and some real advice on how to improve the performance in the managed world.
• Design Guidelines Update: Enum Design via BradA
• A nice article on Document-Centric .NET which stresses on the principle “program to an interface, not an implementation”.
• Clemens gives an acronym to SOA. Guess it before you click 😉