Capital DotNetNuke User Group Meeting

Event Date: Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
Event Time: 7:00PM

Presented by: Antonio Chagoury

Location: AT&T Building, 1900 Gallows Rd, Vienna, VA22182  
(Directions: http://www.capitaldug.org/Directions.aspx)

Event Details

You probably already know that you can setup SharePoint to authenticate via Forms Based Authentication and better yet using the AspNet Membership and Role providers as its back-end. You probably also know that DotNetNuke also uses the AspNet Membership as its default provider. In theory, SharePoint and DotNetNuke could share *one* central membership store.

In this session, Antonio Chagoury will take you from theory to practice by setting up SharePoint to use DotNetNuke's database as the Membership Provider. Antonio will also go into some *gotchas* with the Role Provider, and provide tips and tricks for making it all work.

Warning! Developer Rant!

OK, this is my rant for the week. I HATE the automatic updates for the Windows XP/Vista operating system.

I tend to leave my computer up for days with several browsers open to pages of information that is usually providing me with assistance on a programming projet or two. Along comes the automatic updates and "poof" there goes my pages, and any open applications I have running.

I have had this happen to me on 3 computers in the last 24 hours. All development computers. I could have sworn I turned off the automatic updates. If I did, and the O/S still rebooted - then I am going to have to disable them all together.

I am personally getting tired of the cyberterrorism that results in operating systems that have to constantly be patched to thwart some new vulnerability. And the result is the constant intrusion of Microsoft and other application development companies (are you hearing me Symantec?), plus the incredible drag that the anti-virus software places on my computers' performance. While I can fault the companies that continue to intrude upon my life, I also realize that the anoninomity (say that three times fast) of the Internet has allowed persons to perpetrate crimes that would surely place them behind bars if translated into non-computer related acts.

Back to the software update issue. Imagine the heating repair man coming into your home in the middle of the night to install the latest patch to your thermostat. In the process, he turns the heat off - and it is the middle of winter. At least he might pat the head of my daughter, Cindy Loo Hoo, give her a glass of water and put her back to bed.

With Microsoft setting this trend, how long before I should expect to see the Maytag repairman showing up at 3 a.m. to work on the dishwasher?

Kudos to Scott Lock, CAPAREA President, for getting Jasper Johansson, Microsoft Security Expert, as a presenter on December 13th.

The presentation that he will give is still being discussed, but needless to say, his "How To Get Your Network Hacked in 10 Easy Steps" and other presentations were SRO (standing room only) at recent Microsoft TechEd conferences. Not only are his topics critically important to IT developers and administrators, but he is one of the best presenters I have seen (and I have seen a few).

See you there!