Our Chinese DPE is translating selected posts of my blog in Chinese! You can find it here. I can’t even begin to tell you how honored I feel from the fact that somebody considers this feed interesting enough to go through the effort of translating it… my deepest thanks to the colleagues in…
DigitalMe! Actually, DigitalThem, where (Them==Bandit&&Higgins). Months ago they made everybody drool by demoeing it: today the guys at Bandit & Higgins projects made available for download their identity selector for SuSe linux. The usual Mike, who’s at the grand ball, gives you all the right pointers. That’s all from your cinderella (well, maybe if…
Ah joy. We finally made available to the public 2 very useful kits: one provides some goodies for juggling cardspace related operations in the browser (information card support detection, little toasters, etc), the other simplifies token handling for ASP.NET websites accepting information cards. The usual Mike tells you more on the subject here. Enjoy!
I knew that this edition of Catalyst was going to be exciting! If you are not among the lucky crowd that is attending the event, you can catch some news from the official news in Catalyst Live. Among those news, my eye got caught by the announcement of SignOn.com. It is an OpenID…
It’s that time of the year again: the end of June marks the end of the fiscal year, and for us it’s time to reflect on what we’ve done in the past 12 months. Vast majority of the things I’ve done are internal-only or with high profile customers that can’t be mentioned publicly…
How many times you glance at the stickers on the window of a restaurant for understanding if your credit card is accepted there? I surely started to do it after I made fuel to my usual gas station in Milan, just for discovering minutes later the guy discontinued the support my corporate credit card. That…
Yesterday night I was going through the unresolved parts of the inbox, a fairly boring task, when Dennis rescued me: he chimed in via Messenger reminding me that a new version of the BizTalk Services SDK is out. It wasn’t hard to switch my attention to something far more exciting, and I promptly…
As the title says, I added few sketches to the post “Credentials vs. Identity; Authentication vs…. what?”. I honestly think they will help clarifying few things: kudos to who managed to read it without anyway 🙂 and watch out for the racoon!!!
[EDIT: added some sketch] In short: I briefly discuss some differences between the password based authentication model and the token based one; then I propose that we lack a proper term for describing some of the transactions enabled by cardspace and the token based model. Sometime we get so used to the metaphors…
The idea of using Windows Workflow foundation for driving the UI behavior of an application is a very natural one: in fact, it came out endless times during last year’s briefings with the enterprise early adopters and on internal discussions. There was even a major customer that was very serious about it (of course…