At the end of April I moved from the BizTalk UA team to Windows Server UA team. I have gone from writing content about BAM to working with the documentation for building Cryptographic systems.
When I came to the team my concept of cryptography was limited to the actual encryption of the data. Now that I have been here for a month and a half I have had my eyes opened and I am just beginning to scratch the surface of what a cryptographic system really is. I am working my way through Applied Cryptography by Bruce Schneier, a truly fascinating read.
The major areas of documentation that I now ‘own’ can be found at
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa380255.aspx and http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa376210.aspx
As to the future of this blog, I would like to accomplish the following:
Solicit feedback on new topics that I am working on.
Hear about areas in the existing documentation that need improvement
Find out about real work applications or the technologies that you would like share that will help others better understand the usages.
Currently we are working toward a monthly refresh cycle on the MSDN docs. So you should see on going improvement in the documentation. One big push that I am working on is getting all the TBD’s eliminated from the existing MSDN documentation.
I look forward to hearing from you.