There’s a free webcast coming up that you should know about titled “Obfuscation, IT Governance and Enterprise Risk Management”. It’s being hosted by PreEmptive Solutions – the creators of Dotfuscator. They know just a bit about the topic so it should be worth hearing.

Event: Obfuscation, IT Governance and Enterprise Risk Management  

Date and Time: Monday, April 24, 2006 1:00 pm Eastern time zone

Duration: 30 minutes

Description: Attendees will leave with a clear understanding of the role of obfuscation as an effective control for application security, access control, IP protection in the context of broader IT governance and enterprise risk management frameworks.

I know that there are a lot of choices out there and rather than just picking one or going off of one or two people’s opinion – I thought I’d just ask on my blog what your opinion is…

Feel free to comment on this in the comments or send me an email with your comments.

CodeMash is coming up faster than I want to think about on January 18 and 19th!

CodeMash is a unique event in that we are bringing together the .NET, Java, Ruby, PHP, Perl and Python communities to see what we can learn from each other. As a .NET guy, I’m planning on attending the other technology’s sessions so that I can learn more about then and bring good ideas back to the .NET world. It should be a fun time to be had by all involved.

The other extremely cool thing is that it’s at the Kalahari Resort and indoor water park. In January, that’s a great place to be.

All of this is a fantastic bargain if you sign up by 11/30 and stay at the resort. It’s $99.00 for the early bird registration and $88.00 a night for the resort. The full registration is $149.00 if you don’t want to stay at the resort or if you miss the 11/30 date.

Check out the site for a lot more information.

We’ve finally cleared a path through the jungle, just watch out for tigers! Registration for the January 18-19 event is now open!

So satisfy your inner geek and come mix, mingle and share with geeks from all walks of technology in a great location.

More about the location: http://www.kalahariresort.com

More about the event: http://www.codemash.org

Heard enough? Register for CodeMash now: https://www.codemash.org/register.aspx

 Some of you know me and know that I’m really interested in VSTO (that’s Visual Studio Tools for Office) and that I’ve got a serious XML background having taught the XML Bootcamp for a number of years…

I’ve been following the Office Open XML standard for a while now but I just saw that Ecma is going to adopt the standard. Novell and Corel have already jumped on board to support this in Open Office. This is cool stuff…

Link to Press release 9 December 2005 – Ecma International creates TC45 to standardize Office Open XML File Formats

Wow I’m behind on this one! Drew points out that you could win a Zune just by blogging about CodeMash!

Help us spread the word! Blog about CodeMash and win a Zune media player!

Link to Drewby: CodeMash: Spread the word, Win a Zune!

Dave Strenski is coming in to give a session called “Solar Photovoltaic Power in Ypsilanti, how it works”. He was behind getting the Ypsilanti Food Co-op running on solar power. He’s going to talk about how that happened, the tech involved and the economics of solar power.

Source: This month’s meeting at AACS

Dianne Marsh and Bill Wagner (Senior Consultants at SRT Solutions and central to getting CodeMash going) are both on DNR this week!

Link to CodeMash Organizer and CodeMash Speaker Mash it Up on Dot Net Rocks | SRT Solutions

Register for CodeMash! .NET, Java, PHP, Perl, Ruby and more under one roof – come learn what the other technologies know that can help you!

Darrell Hawley is speaking on Web Service Enhancements and Duane Collicott is doing a tutorial session on dasBlog. It should be a great session. I really wish that I could make it.

Link to AADND in November