http://www.jwsecure.com/dan Comments on security, PKI, smart cards, cryptography, and entrepreneurship. Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:50:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I’ve been doing some research into this lately, especially in anticipation of contrasting it to similar opportunities that may be offered by the upcoming Windows Marketplace for Mobile (http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2009/feb09/02-16MWCPR.mspx).   Regarding the iPhone, it’s certainly got buzz in its favor. And as of Q1 CY09, Apple had sold 21 million iPhones.   On the other ... http://www.jwsecure.com/dan/2009/07/02/iphone-application-business-model/ The Microsoft Small Business engagement team created these news feed widgets as a promotion. They're pretty cool (unfortunately, they don't fit in the layout template of the JW Secure website). The full list is here. A sample is here: http://www.jwsecure.com/dan/2009/06/29/news-feed-widgets-from-ms-small-biz/ Anyone going to Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2009 in New Orleans? I'll be there. (Sounds like madness to be in New Orleans in July, doesn't it?) http://www.jwsecure.com/dan/2009/06/29/wpc09-in-the-big-easy/ Now all of the project landing pages for the Samples 2009 group on CodePlex have nice "inline" screenshots. That way, if you're looking for reusable XAML, you know what you can get from these projects. Here are the five project URLs: http://bioapprovalworkflow.codeplex.com/ http://cloudbackup.codeplex.com/ http://ec2bootstrapper.codeplex.com/ http://laptoplojack.codeplex.com/ http://securepasswordstore.codeplex.com/ http://www.jwsecure.com/dan/2009/06/29/screenshots-posted-on-codeplex-project-pages/ Is here. Primarily, Tim's paper attempts to answer the question, "what do we call an application that doesn't run in the browser?" and he defends his choice of 'rich client'. I personally prefer 'thick client', since it clearly contrasts what the likes of Sun (moment of silence please) and Google have ... http://www.jwsecure.com/dan/2009/06/18/windows-client-guidance-paper-by-tim-huckaby/ Many have already been provided in the Windows API Code Pack for Microsoft .NET Framework. What's more, you get the full code. Particularly interesting to me is the Sensor API support, which relates to a recent JW Secure project, and the Network List Manager (NLM). NLM is a little-known feature introduced ... http://www.jwsecure.com/dan/2009/06/18/need-net-wrappers-for-new-windows-7-features/ Check out several of our Samples 2009 series of projects highlighted here (hosted on microsoft.com, no less!). http://www.jwsecure.com/dan/2009/06/18/jw-secure-projects-on-buildabetterappcom/ Because it's done! Check out its CodePlex project site for updated demo binaries, source code, and the whitepaper. http://www.jwsecure.com/dan/2009/06/18/laptop-lojack-stick-a-fork-in-it/ Check out the EC2 Bootstrapper project site on CodePlex. http://www.jwsecure.com/dan/2009/06/16/ec2-bootstrapper-final-code-near-final-whitepaper/ The Cloud Backup code and whitepaper are final. See the CodePlex project page. http://www.jwsecure.com/dan/2009/06/16/cloud-backup-all-done/