Bookshelf

Bookshelf

[warning: you won’t find any useful identity related info in this post]   I recently moved to a new apartment, and while unboxing the books I had to decide on a criteria for shelving them in our wonderful black billy. Hierarchies sucks, because they force you to choose a single criteria for slicing…

Fun Communications Launches Web Loyalty Cards… Implemented as Information Cards :)

Almost a year has passed since TechEd EMEA; I remember giving a chalk talk on STSes and claims based identity in general, and a guy from the audience who was asking especially elaborate questions… it was clear that he was hands on and had a lot of experience in developing for CardSpace. I…

Visual Studio web project template for Zermatt… and your CardSpace RP ASP.NET web site is up&running in just 37.1 seconds

Visual Studio web project template for Zermatt… and your CardSpace RP ASP.NET web site is up&running in just 37.1 seconds

You would not believe how often I have to set up identity enabled web sites: for verifying a theory, for proving a point with colleagues, for demos and events… really really often. Vast majority of cases those are barely proofs of concept, nothing elaborated, so I’ve been working for reducing the overhead that…

Windows CardSpace helps Eduserve to fuel DreamSpark authentication

I am sure you are all more than familiar with DreamSpark, the amazing (YES, amazing. Bravo Milo!) offer through which Microsoft gives access to developer & designer tools at no charge. That requires, naturally, to be able to prove that you are indeed a student. Eduserv is a not-for-profit UK-based organization that focuses…

New Issue of the Architecture Journal: Article on "Claims and Identity, On-Premise and Cloud Solutions"

New Issue of the Architecture Journal: Article on "Claims and Identity, On-Premise and Cloud Solutions"

The latest issue of the Architecture Journal is available for download here (I am breaking the news even before the rest of the pages are updated from issue 15 to issue 16: see how much I care about you?;-)). What makes this especially interesting is that issue 16 is entirely dedicated to identity!…

Setting up a basic CardSpace RP ASP.NET website… using Zermatt

Setting up a basic CardSpace RP ASP.NET website… using Zermatt

With few weeks of delay I finally forced in my schedule the conclusion of my little getting started series “… using Zermatt” (links to former episodes: setting up an STS for smartcard-backed managed cards & issuing smartcard-backed managed cards). The first posts I wrote about Zermatt were all about producing identity info: today…

The New York Times on passwords, OpenID, Information Cards Foundation & Kim

I was dividing my attention between the Scrubs special on TV & Digg on my PC, when an article titled "Experts: Passwords May Not Be a Good Online Defense" caught my eye: well, couldn’t agree more!:-) It turns out that the article is from the NY Times, and it’s short & sweet hence…