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Offshoring Shakes Up Developer Landscape

Offshoring is changing the nature of what it is to be a developer today, much as HMOs have changed what it is to be a doctor. What does this mean to you?

Reality Bites

How does outsourcing--or how will it--affect you?

Save the Hobbyist Programmer

The hobbyist/part-time programmer is becoming an endangered species. However, we as an industry need the skills this person provides.

Bind Data to WinForms Controls

Display data programmatically with only a few lines of code, using the databinding features built into the .NET Framework's WinForms controls.

Edit Your SQL Data

Check out the latest Visual Studio third-party add-ons, including one that helps you edit your database's data and properties during a debug session.

How PowerPoint Is Like Melvin

Why some things--and people--are just unlikable.

Build an RSS Generator Component

Learn how to create an RSS feed for publishing data to subscriber apps. You can use the handy RssGen sample component as a starting point for your own data feed generator.

Making the Connection

Using the Active Directory Connector is an effective way to move your legacy Exchange environment to a new Exchange 2003 setup.

Remote Shutdown

This script allows logoff and shut down of remote users.

Disaster Recovery, or Just Disaster?

Simple IIS backup techniques

Managing User Profiles Your Way

Better methods for managing user profiles en masse. Plus, an SBS problem.

Testing, Testing, 1, 2, 3...

Disaster recovery plans should be part of any testing plan.

Managing User Profiles

A slap-dash solution for transferring profiles in toto. Anyone with a more elegant method?

Educational Opportunities

Security training, free for the asking.

Double-Secret Forest Functional Level

New! Windows admin tips, tricks, and secrets. First up: migration via the "interim" forest functional level.

In Through the Back Door

A routine audit of Active Directory permissions can expose this example back-ended breach.

RSA Musings

Something old, something new, something quite innovative at this year's security show.

Use DataSets as Business Objects

Enhance the DataSet class with inheritance and extend its associated XML schema to hook validation checks and custom validation routines into DataSets declaratively.

The Microsoft Security Debate: The Final Chapter

Roberta responds to a readers' essay on what he views as Microsoft's poorly implemented security strategy.

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