[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…
digg_url = “http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vbertocci/archive/2010/07/06/how-wif-wedges-itself-in-the-wcf-pipeline.aspx”;digg_title = “How WIF Wedges Itself in the WCF Pipeline”;digg_bgcolor = “#FFFFFF”;digg_skin = “normal”;digg_url = undefined;digg_title = undefined;digg_bgcolor = undefined;digg_skin = undefined; if it’s true that a picture is worth 10^3 words… Without the carrot/stick of the book I would have never spent the cycles to put together a visual representation…
digg_url = “http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vbertocci/archive/2010/07/06/protecting-workflow-services-with-wif.aspx”;digg_title = “Protecting Workflow Services with WIF”;digg_bgcolor = “#FFFFFF”;digg_skin = “normal”;digg_url = undefined;digg_title = undefined;digg_bgcolor = undefined;digg_skin = undefined; It’s since March 2007 that WCF and WF started their mind meld (remember Orcas?) and I am tempted to say that in the .NET Framework 4 the process is pretty much complete….
digg_url = “http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vbertocci/archive/2010/06/28/the-june-2010-identity-training-kit-contains-powerpoint-decks-videos.aspx”;digg_title = “The June 2010 Identity Training Kit Contains Powerpoint Decks, Videos”;digg_bgcolor = “#FFFFFF”;digg_skin = “normal”;digg_url = undefined;digg_title = undefined;digg_bgcolor = undefined;digg_skin = undefined; As promised, here there’s a version of the Identity Developer Training Kit which contains the decks from the WIF Workshops and embedded players for all the video…
digg_url = “http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vbertocci/archive/2010/06/23/all-will-be-revealed-7-hours-recordings-from-the-wif-workshops.aspx”;digg_title = “All Will Be Revealed: ~7 Hours Recordings from the WIF Workshops”;digg_bgcolor = “#FFFFFF”;digg_skin = “normal”;digg_url = undefined;digg_title = undefined;digg_bgcolor = undefined;digg_skin = undefined; As promised, the recordings of the main sessions of the latest WIF Workshop are now available on Channel9! The course starts from the very high level…