Scott Hanselman has a good tip to protect your clients’ clients’ privacy.

This is one a lot of people know, but it's worth covering again because it's easily forgotten as it's a small detail. Since we do eFinance sites, we often don't want folks' UserNames collected and stored in AutoComplete, especially when the site is browsed on a public machine.

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Note that autocomplete="false" doesn't work. However, autocomplete="off" works in both IE and FireFox.

Could be a little sharper, but still a nice perspective.

Rod PaddockRod Paddock has been posting a great series on Avalon.

So download the Avalon CTP and start writing some code.

Omar announces das Blog 1.7

Upgrade is not x-copy….

If you are as confused as I was, or even more since there is YA-CTP, Kent Sharkey posted a great guide on MSDN [0], which describes what is in each version and how stable each is.

[0] Download Visual Studio 2005 Prerelease Software

via: [Boing Boing]

I'll be there, from 13-16 september 2005 in Los Angeles.

[pdc announced at MSDN]

The Netherlands Forensic Institute recently released TULP2G as opensource. This is an application, written in C#, to extract data from mobile phones, using a data cable.

Very cool picture.

via: flickrblog