I have in my hand an hardcopy of the last book from Felipe and Chris, and it feels good. Title: “Web Services Architeture and its specifications: essentials for understanding WS-*”, ISBN 0735621624. I knew there was a niche in the current offering for such a book, and I’m happy to see that the…
OK, title is sort of a notation abuse but it’s for euphony with the former post 🙂Fact is, the Identity Pot is definitely boiling these days! Cameron’s laws of Identity, live now in an official MSDN whitepaper Another whitepaper wraps up the message, explaining our vision on Identity Metasystem 🙂 We are apparently up…
…themselves!The web SSO interoperability profile throws a bridge between WS-Federation and Liberty Itentity Federation; the web SSO Metadata exchange protocol gives you a chance to establish which identification protocols and providers are supported by your target service [or requestor], enabling dynamic choices and a wide range of id suites. Sounds very similar to policy…
Have you watched the last MSDN TV episode with Richard Turner? It’s a short but instructive view, I suggest you to check it out. During the speech Rich draws a simple picture, which I believe deserves some meditation. Below an approximate reproduction. The red line represents a service boundary, and all the black things… all the…
Did you ever wished to have a springboard from where you can access all the WS-* specs which are relevant to your work? I don’t have anything against the specification home in MSDN, in fact I love the taxonomy with the picture which rescues you from cognitive overhead by highlighting the current section;…
Brace yourself, here there’s another coming 🙂 Today I had to explain to my girlfriend the difference between the expressive power of WS-Security as opposed to HTTPS. She’s a computer scientist, so even if she doesn’t know all the XML mumbo jumbo she understands (maybe better than me) what encryption or signature means. However I…
Venerdì mi sono fatto un giretto a Genova, per sbrigare un po’ di sana burocrazia universitaria. Ho rivisto un sacco di persone e luoghi che sono trigger di interi chunk di memoria, e inoltre me la sono sbigata in frettissima! Alle 10:30 ero già di nuovo padrone del mio tempo, e ho dovuto far in…
Seeing is believing. http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2005/apr05/04-19OasisStandardizationPR.asp
Have you ever found yourself trying to explain to somebody why you need to have a certain certificate installed on a certain machine? Or which token is used to encrypt a certain part of a message? Or maybe when you have to acquire a token, or how you propagate a session key in…
…but apparently it is.2 years that I blog. And some weeks that I blog just weirdness. I will try to be more useful in the next entries 🙂