At the VBSIG of the TBCS, I’ll be expanding the depth and breadth of technologies for meetings to include topics like PHP, MySQL, Javascript, JQuery, CSS and more.
We’ll also be working on the various server platforms such as IIS, WAMP and LAMP.
Meetings are the first Tuesday of each month 7 to 9 pm at the Tampa Bay Computer Society resource center.
There’s no January meeting since it falls on January 1, 2008.
See you in February!
Finally, Microsoft has announced a product to help protect you Intellectual Property (IP), not just theirs!
Read about Microsoft’s Code protection technology here.
It’s not your father’s obfuscation. It’s called Secure Virtual Machine (SVM), purportedly to be a one-way transformation.
If it’s really secure, then perhaps my customers may embrace the Dot Net platform, because up until now, obfuscation was insufficient to prevent reverse engineering.
Microsoft had supplied a lame version of an Obfuscator along with Visual Studio, but if you wanted the (almost) good stuff, you were out $1000 bucks per developer seat! That;s more then VS itself.
So it’s about time. hope it’s for real. the DotNet platform has so much promise, protecting IP has been what’s stopping it’s adoption for commercial softer.
Now… we have to find out what the commercial version costs. The free download is for evaluation only, it only will do three functions (boo hiss!)
June 5th is going to be a busy day/evening, with the C# stuff.
However, if we have time, I’d like to show how I implemented a linked list in Visual Basic in a recent project.
