Last week Robert Hess, host extraordinaire, invited me to his The Knowledge Chamber show. The casus belli was the release of Programming Windows Identity Foundation, but we ended up having a nice chat about all things claims-based identity. I even had the chance of showing a super-quick demo using WIF, ACS, the security…
[UPDATE: I eventually got it too, see at the end of the post] Yes, you get to see the eBook version of my book even before I do 🙂 O’Reilly just made available today the eBook option for Programming Windows Identity Foundation. Thanks to Mike Erickson’s tweet we also know that the download…
[No technical content in this uncharacteristically brief post, be warned] This morning I was leafing through the September issue of Wired, when I got to an interview with Simon Singh (no links to it, Wired’s Web site does not appear to have the September issue up yet). Mr. Singh is a great science…
The newest lab release of ACS shows some serious protocol muscle, covering (to my knowledge) more ground than anything else to date. ACS also does an excellent job in simplifying many scenarios that would traditionally require much more thinking & effort: as a result, it is very tempting to just think that any…
digg_url = “http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vbertocci/archive/2010/08/23/selfsts-when-you-need-a-saml-token-now-right-now.aspx”;digg_title = “SelfSTS: when you need a SAML token NOW, RIGHT NOW”;digg_bgcolor = “#FFFFFF”;digg_skin = “normal”;digg_url = undefined;digg_title = undefined;digg_bgcolor = undefined;digg_skin = undefined; A little new toy for you claims-based identity aficionados to play with! Available here. Tokens are the currency on the identity market. Any identity solution you develop…
With all the commotion for the book, blogging about this just fell through the cracks. Every week Ryan and Steve host a great show on all things Windows Azure (& platform). For this week’s episode I had the honor & privilege to eat up most of the time, filling up a whiteboard of…
digg_url = “http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vbertocci/archive/2010/08/18/programming-windows-identity-foundation-has-been-sent-to-the-printer.aspx”;digg_title = ““Programming Windows Identity Foundation” has been sent to the printer”;digg_bgcolor = “#FFFFFF”;digg_skin = “normal”;digg_url = undefined;digg_title = undefined;digg_bgcolor = undefined;digg_skin = undefined; [this may look weird at first, but bear with me] The Roman numerals notation emerged with Roman civilization itself, around the 9th century BC, though its roots…
digg_url = “http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vbertocci/archive/2010/08/05/new-labs-release-of-acs-marries-web-identities-and-ws-blows-your-mind.aspx”;digg_title = “New Labs Release of ACS marries Web Identities and WS-*, Blows Your Mind”;digg_bgcolor = “#FFFFFF”;digg_skin = “normal”;digg_url = undefined;digg_title = undefined;digg_bgcolor = undefined;digg_skin = undefined; They did it. Justin, Hervey and the AppFabric ACS gang just released a new version of the ACS in the LABS environment, a version…