Similar to the TVBUG presentation, I will be presenting on the Windows Identity Foundation to the Metro Toronto .NET User Group.
Here are the details:
When: November 10th, 2010
Where: KPMG, 333 Bay Street, 10th Floor, Toronto
Abstract: Identity is a tricky thing to manage. These days every application requires some knowledge of the user, which inevitably requires users to log in and out of the applications to prove they are who they are as well as requiring the application to keep record of the accounts. With the Windows Identity Foundation, built on top of a Claims-based architecture, there is a fundamental shift in the way we manage these users and their accounts. In this presentation we will take a look at the why's and dig into the how's of the Windows Identity Foundation by building an Identity aware application from scratch.
Tonight at the IT Pro Toronto we did a pre-launch
of the Infrastructure 2010 project.
Have you ever been in a position where you just don’t have a clear grasp of a concept
or design? It’s not fun. As a result, CIPS
Toronto, IT Pro Toronto, and TorontoSQL banded
together to create a massive event to help make things a little more clear.
To give you a clearer understanding of how corporate networks work. Perhaps
to explain why some decisions are made, and why in retrospect, some are bad decisions.
Infrastructure 2010 is about teaching you everything there is to know about a state-of-the-art,
best practices compliant, corporate intranet. We will build, from the ground
up, an entire infrastructure. We will teach you how to build, from the ground
up, an entire infrastructure.
Sessions are minimum 300 level, and content-rich. Therefore:
![i2010Proud[1]](http://www.syfuhs.net/media/blog/i2010Proud%5B1%5D_3.png "i2010Proud[1]")
Well, maybe. (P.S. if you work for Microsoft, pretend you didn’t see that picture)
October 15th Evening SQL Server DBA Event: Disaster Recovery –
Edwin Sarmiento, MVP for SQL Server
Speaker: Edwin M. Sarmiento, MVP for SQL Server
Date: Thursday, October 15th, 2009
Time: 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM
Venue: Microsoft Ottawa Office
RSVP: http://www.clicktoattend.com/?id=142063
Session 1 (6:00 PM to 7:10 PM): Understanding and communicating business-orientated
disaster recovery concepts and objectives
So you have a database maintenance plan that does a backup of your databases and you’re
pretty sure that it works fine. But is that really enough? Are you sure that you will
be able to meet your service level agreements if and when disaster strikes? This session
will explain the need for understanding and communicating business-orientated disaster
recovery concepts and objectives to the business stakeholders. This will include defining
your RPO and RTO and how it affects your disaster recovery plan.
Session 2 (7:20 to 8:30 PM): Disaster Recovery for the Paranoid DBA
In the first session, much have been said about disaster recovery in general. In this
session, we will look at bringing the concepts down to SQL Server. This session will
focus on dealing with a recovery situation for a SQL Server 2005/2008 database, an
instance or an entire server. Topics covered will be backup schemes, partial backups
and piecemeal restores, page-level recovery and a thorough understanding of how to
troubleshoot a "Suspect" database.
Speaker Bio:
Edwin
M. Sarmiento (MVP for SQL Server) works as a Senior SQL Server DBA/Systems
Engineer for The Pythian Group in Ottawa, Canada.
He is very passionate about technology but has interests in music, professional and
organizational development, leadership and management matters when not working with
databases. He lives up to his primary mission statement – "To help people
grow and develop their full potential as God has planned for them.".
Refreshments:
Pizza and pop will be provided.
Note: No one will be admitted by building security after 5:55 PM, and the
event will start promptly at 6:00 PM.
OttawaSQL.net is a community group of Ottawa area developers and IT professionals.
We share an interest in Microsoft’s data technologies especially: SQL Server,
SharePoint, PerformancePoint, Workflow Foundations, LINQ, ADO.NET and Entity Framework.
Lang.NET was just over an hour or so ago, and there are many funny and interesting quotes I compiled over the last few days. Here are all I can remember and find on twitter.
Mads Torgersen on C# dynamic: “We owe it to IronPython and Ruby to make them first class languages.”
Mads Torgersen: “Static typers put the ‘anguish in languish’.”
Keith Robertson: “I’m here to sell you something. You can tell because I'm the one with the tie.”
Erik Meijer: “C# dynamic ‘is like the needle exchange program’.”
Tim Macfarlane: “We're planning on putting [Tycho] on the DLR pretty soon.”
Karl Prosser: “When I see squiggly brackets, it feels like a real language to me.”
Jeffrey Snover on Powershell: “No prayer based parsing.”
Lars Bak: “It’s good to have a slow compiler because that gives you job security.”
Joshua Goodman: “The way PMs fix things is by sending email.”
Erik Meijer: “I love the math - you don't need brain to do math. It’s all symbol pushing.”
Luke Hoban: “CodeDom is able to handle any language that is C#. Including VB.”
Erik Meijer: "LINQ is the solution to everything.”
Philip Wadler: “Monads aren't everything!”
Philip Wadler: “Nothing is so practical as a good theory.”
Erik Meijer: “Because of reflection, every language on the CLR is dynamic.”
I’ve enjoyed myself at Lang.NET and found the people and content are brilliant. I’ll definitely be back again next year. Kudos to the guys who helped set these up.