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…
This morning I was reading Newsweek (before you get any ideas: I subscribed to BOTH Newsweek and Time) and the interesting account they made about the history of a person. Much is being written on the subject, just browse your favourite news website for the details: however the summary is that this person…
Here there’s the cover sketch for our “Understanding Windows CardSpace” book. As you may have noticed, the Independent Technology Guides series has the tradition of putting an animal on the cover. While all the books of the series have gorgeous cover pictures (I especially like the lion on David’s “Understanding .NET“), I don’t…
Keith mentions he cannot find a good end user description of CardSpace that can be used for introducing the concept to a web site visitor. Keith, we do have such a description 🙂 below there’s a snapshot of it. You can find it in the delivery guide on our community site.