7 years of blogging

The anniversary is in fact in April, but every year (2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009) I am drifting forward. In fact I am tempted to skip this altogether, but a tradition is a tradition… So, let’s make a quick digest of the notable posts from last year.

• The very first Identity Training Kit announcement was big, I was finally able to publicly discuss something I worked hard on for quite some time
• The IdElement was in full steam at the time, but I would not be able to pick a specific post: just pick the video you like the most 🙂
• Various videos of sessions i did here and there
• FabrikamShipping…
• …the token visualizer control…
• …and the magical & revolutionary control which can use claims for driving web based UIs without writing any code 😉
• Using DeepZoom for storytelling
• BOOKS!!!
• the very first guide for using WIF in Windows Azure, full of workaround which eventually became unnecessary
• The appearance on .NET rocks
• The new ACS
• the identity training course on channel9
• Drawing on slides
• Some long overdue claim philosophy, which I have still to complete
• A little trick for pre-selecting a home realm. Rough but effective
• U-Prove!
• the identity training kit gains 2 new labs: WIF+active case on Windows Azure, WIF+Silverlight
• the WIF Workshops
• Visual Studio 2010 launch keynote in Italy! Pre & post
• Claims on the client
• Interviews with the Italian press
• Various technical posts in May: pipeline, configuration, session by reference, etc

I have less and less time to blog, especially to do the deep architectural posts that I really like; but I try, and hopefully once the book will be done I’ll have more bandwidth… and 75 entries in a year, though most were announcements, is not too bad after all 🙂

Thanks to my loyal readers, old and new!