Well, it’s almost one month since I wrote the last “useful” posts: you would not believe how incredibly busy I am on stuff I can’t talk about just yet (but soon, very soon). In this quick update I am excited to report that I am going to speak at TechEd New Zealand &…
[I suggest my usual readers to skip this post altogether, you won’t find anything useful here :-)] Romeo tagged me with this “How did you get started in software development?” quest. I was already feeling guilty, because given how swamped I am I knew I was not going to have time to reply to the tag: OTOH…
It’s since April that I don’t write about the book (at the time we released the entire Chapter 2 on MSDN). Last week I received notice that 2 new reviews were published: one is from the Denver Visual Studio User Group, the other is on Paul Van Brenk’s blog. Both reviews are extremely…
We are back! I hope you had fun with the STS tutorial I posted yesterday night; here we move a step further and examine how to equip our STS with managed card issuance logic & UI. As anticipated, this is going to be MUCH faster. If you recall, in the last post I…
Just back from vacation. The tan barely started to fade, and here I am already playing with the new shiny toy :-). Did you experiment with Zermatt by now? As Kim mentions the samples (and the documentation) are an excellent way to start, and I am sure that blog posts & tutorials will…
I am sure you already saw Kim’s post about John Fontana’s interview with Stuart, appeared on Network World. I like how John communicates the importance of this release, and how it positions it in the context of the broader picture. Recommended reading 🙂 Also, the blogosphere is buzzing: if you toy with your…
Ahh, I’ve been looking forward for this post for a looong time. We just made available for download the bits of the Beta of “Zermatt” Developer Identity Framework. “Zermatt” is the codename of a .NET framework that helps developers build claims-aware applications to address challenging application security requirements using a simplified application access…
One year ago we had a brief wall-to-wall exchange with Keith about the need of having consumer (as non-developer) info about CardSpace. The Information Card Foundation is doing a great job at handling those info for the general concept of information card. Specifically for Windows CardSpace, I am happy to announce that we now…
On the Seattle-Paris flight. I’ve just posted the piece about validation-authentication-authorization, and i am a bit bothered by the fact that I was unable to delve into greater details for what concerns the authoriZation part. In particular, I’d like to address one of the misunderstandings which can derive from transporting verbatim the knowledge…
Flying back from S.Diego, after attending a great edition of Catalyst. I should probably write down my impressions before they fade, like it happened with the IIW, but there’s in fact something (only mildly related) that bugged me for quite some time and I just want to flush it out of my system…