Tim Marman blogs about iGo's website being bad. So I went to their site, forced an error by changing a querystring a little and I see that they are passing the error message in the querystring! Bad, programmer! After Scott Guthrie's presentation the other night on Cross-site scripting attacks, I thought, “I wonder if you could put javascript in the querystring?” Well, the answer is YES! Yikes!

I was going to provide a link to the site with a little “alert” message, but it's probably better to leave that as an exercise for the reader...

This is a pretty cool offer:

Mike Schinkel, president of Xtras.Net, made an offer on his personal blog of a free XDN Professional membership (http://www.xtras.net/xdn) during the month of May 2004 for anyone that blogs about .NET frequently. If you are a .NET blogger, see Mike's post for how to get your free XDN membership.

Went to the ASP.Net Roadshow presentation in Phoenix tonight. Scott Guthrie presented. It was a really good session. The only complaint I have is that 30 to 45 minutes were spent on an intro to ASP.Net. ASP.Net has been around for over 2 years, we don't need an intro anymore. If someone attending one of these presentations doesn't know the basics by now, maybe they should read a book or something! I enjoyed his tips and tricks section and definitely enjoyed seeing what is coming in ASP.Net 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005. Plus, everyone who attended received a copy of ASP.NET Coding Strategies. Not too shabby!

Don Box built a PC for Media Center Edition... How do us mere mortals (a.k.a non-Microsoft employees) get a legitimate copy of Media Center to run on our home-brew PCs? From everything I've read, it is only available with a PC sold specifically as a Media Center PC.

I bought a new digital camera over the weekend. It's the Canon Digital Rebel. If you haven't heard of it before, it is a digital SLR camera that can use ANY of the Canon EF lenses and a whole boatload of third-party lenses too. It can take photos at 6.3 megapixels and stores them on a compact flash card. Steve's Digicam can tell you more about this camera than I can! All i can say so far is this thing just feels nice in your hands! It is replacing my Kodak DX4900. It was a decent camera for a “point-and-shoot”, but it is no match for the Rebel! I'm no shutterbug, but so far my photos are turning out better with this camera than my old one. I think it may inspire me to take more photos of my family and friends. Maybe I'll even turn it into a hobby. Who knows?

Installshield has released InstallShield X! I was lucky enough to be invited to a beta lab at InstallShield's Schaumburg headquarters in March. From what I saw there, this looks like it is going to be a great upgrade! If you create installers that install IIS websites or need to run SQL scripts against MS SQL Server, I highly suggest you take a look at this release.

So I was trying to get to the OpenNETCF.org website and it seems to be down at the moment. Then later on tonight I tried the CodeProject site and it seems to be hosed too! Looks like CodeProject is having a problem with their database server:

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Not sure exactly what's going on with the OpenNETCF site, but According to Chris Tacke, it is some sort of DNS snafu. Hope they both get their problems fixed soon! It really sucks when reference sites like these go down! Especially OpenNETCF, some of the examples they have their are pretty unique to their site!

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Looks like Tablet PCs just might be ready for developers to use. Two different developers have blogged a little bit about their new Tablet PCs here and here. I really need a new PC for personal use. I have a laptop for work, but I always do my personal projects on my personal PC. I was thinking about getting a laptop to replace my current desktop, but the more I read about Tablet PCs, the more I want one!

Eric Gunnerson gets to spend most of the week "App Building". Sounds like fun! I really enjoy when I get to work heads down on a project for a few days. No meetings, no administrative tasks, just pure coding time! As it turns out, it looks like I'll get close to that for the next couple of days at work.