We had such a great time presenting sessions this past week. For those that made it to the User Group in West Palm Beach on Tuesday – I had a great time covering simple data binding in Silverlight 3. On Saturday, Raul and I both presented Silverlight sessions at the Orlando Code Camp (www.orlandocodecamp.com). In the coming weeks we’ll be chunking these presentations up into smaller topic blogs for those that didn’t get to make it to these sessions or are interested in getting the benefit of our experience in the trenches.

The purpose of this article is give step-by-step instructions, with example files, on how hackers can run server-side code on your website. This is not just an issue for older DotNetNuke installations. This applies to any website running on Windows Server 2003. First, a disclaimer. I spoke with Cathal and the DotNetNuke Security team through proper channels and let them post the first blog on how to patch this. There are articles out there for the bad people to get into your system, so we only thought it was fair to post this through a more main-stream channel in the hopes that good people can be educated on how to protect themselves. (Hackers are bad, server administrators are good in this disclaimer).

I'm going to be speaking at the Florida.net meeting this upcoming Tuesday.  My partner, Raul, and I will also both be presenting at this year's Orlando Code Camp.  We'll be focusing on Microsoft Silverlight and Sharepoint.  Click through to the full article for more details on the subjects covered and presentation times.