{"id":509,"date":"2008-04-27T06:31:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-27T15:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/27\/5-years-of-blogging\/"},"modified":"2008-04-27T06:31:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-27T15:31:00","slug":"5-years-of-blogging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/27\/5-years-of-blogging\/","title":{"rendered":"5 years of blogging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2:35AM. I landed few hours ago in Seattle, back from a successful week in <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/vbertocci\/archive\/2008\/04\/11\/april-the-22nd-session-at-the-iasa-it-architect-regional-conference-in-kuala-lumpur.aspx\">Kuala Lumpur<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/vbertocci\/archive\/2008\/04\/11\/april-the-23rd-session-chalktalk-at-the-singapore-s-regional-architects-forum.aspx\">Singapore<\/a>, and of course I am <strong><u>totally<\/u><\/strong> jetlagged and I can&#8217;t sleep at all. Hence I&#8217;ll kill some time writing the customarily post I do every April for this feed&#8217;s birthday (former installments: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/vbertocci\/archive\/2004\/04\/04\/107352.aspx\">2004<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/vbertocci\/archive\/2005\/04\/14\/408234.aspx\">2005<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/vbertocci\/archive\/2006\/04\/26\/584374.aspx\">2006<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/vbertocci\/archive\/2007\/04\/11\/4-years-of-blogging.aspx\">2007<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Five years is quite a long time in the IT timescale. It always amazes me to see the readership stats: given the specificity of the topics I write about, coupled with my regrettable tendency to tangents &amp; severe verbal incontinence, one would never expect a yearly total of views well in the six digits and yet.. thanks everybody for your attention &amp; patience \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Here there&#8217;s a selection of some of the most popular&#8217;s posts since last April. Considering that in the past year I&#8217;ve also worked on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0321496841\">the book<\/a> and spoke at many events, besides the usual customer engagements, I am surprised I managed to write almost 100 entries.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Some musings<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/vbertocci\/archive\/2007\/10\/29\/the-tao-of-claims.aspx\">The Tao of Claims<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The Tao of Authentication series (<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/vbertocci\/archive\/2008\/02\/20\/the-tao-of-authentication-part-i.aspx\">I<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/vbertocci\/archive\/2008\/03\/10\/the-tao-of-authentication-part-ii.aspx\">II<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/vbertocci\/archive\/2008\/03\/11\/the-tao-of-authentication-part-iii-last.aspx\">III<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/vbertocci\/archive\/2007\/12\/21\/the-authorization-continuum.aspx\">The Authorization Continuum<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/vbertocci\/archive\/2007\/12\/31\/year-s-end-blabbering-omnidirectional-identities.aspx\">Omnidirectional Identities<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/vbertocci\/archive\/2007\/09\/24\/the-resource-sts-r-sts-rp-sts-a-sts-the-other-face-of-token-issuing.aspx\">On R-STS<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/vbertocci\/archive\/2008\/01\/02\/on-prooftokens.aspx\">On ProofTokens<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/vbertocci\/archive\/2007\/10\/31\/on-displaytoken.aspx\">On DisplayTokens<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/vbertocci\/archive\/2008\/04\/20\/cloud-computing-and-identity.aspx\">Cloud Computing &amp; Identity<\/a>&nbsp; <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Some samples &amp; tutorials<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/vbertocci\/archive\/2007\/05\/02\/a-silver-cardspace-securing-orcas-workflow-services-with-windows-cardspace.aspx\">Sample usage of CardSpace &amp; WF&#8217;s new Send\/Receive WCF activities<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/vbertocci\/archive\/2007\/05\/30\/a-restful-cardspace-sending-tokens-using-the-new-wcf-ajax-services-in-orcas.aspx\">Sample usage of CardSpace &amp; WCF&#8217;s new REST style services<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/vbertocci\/archive\/2007\/11\/27\/office-cardspace-using-cardspace-for-securing-excel-to-web-services-communications.aspx\">Sample usage of CardSpace &amp; Excel<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/vbertocci\/archive\/2008\/02\/25\/nossl-sample-a-class-for-checking-signatures-of-tokens-sent-to-the-rp-in-clear-http.aspx\">Sample usage of CardSpace on non-HTTPS websites<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/vbertocci\/archive\/2008\/03\/31\/using-federatedidentity-net-managed-cards-with-biztalk-services-sdk.aspx\">Sample usage of managed cards for accessing a biztalk.net RP<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The Teched EMEA STS demo series (<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/vbertocci\/archive\/2007\/11\/19\/developing-a-minimal-sts-with-adfs-2-identity-framework-part-i-the-sts-itself.aspx\">I<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/vbertocci\/archive\/2007\/12\/10\/developing-a-minimal-sts-with-adfs-2-identity-framework-part-ii-issuing-managed-cards.aspx\">II<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/vbertocci\/archive\/2007\/12\/13\/developing-a-minimal-sts-with-adfs-2-identity-framework-part-iii-creating-a-relying-party.aspx\">III<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Some announcements<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/vbertocci\/archive\/2007\/07\/02\/channel9-parla-italiano.aspx\">Channel9 In Italian<\/a> (si, sono colpevole. Ho gente da intervistare ma pochissimo tempo per farlo :()<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/vbertocci\/archive\/2008\/03\/10\/wcf-rest-at-mix08-the-tale-of-myspace-apis.aspx\">MySpace, REST &amp; WCF at MIX<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/vbertocci\/archive\/2007\/10\/15\/windows-cardspace-silverlight-help-singapore-to-get-easier-and-safer-access-to-health-data.aspx\">Changi Hospital<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/vbertocci\/archive\/2007\/10\/31\/another-huge-cardspace-win-goes-live-cdiscount.aspx\">CDiscount<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Well, it didn&#8217;t work: I am still fully awake&#8230; apparently I need something stronger, like attacking the 2069 messages that piled up in my inbox while I was OOF. That will do \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2:35AM. I landed few hours ago in Seattle, back from a successful week in Kuala Lumpur &amp; Singapore, and of course I am totally jetlagged and I can&#8217;t sleep at all. Hence I&#8217;ll kill some time writing the customarily post I do every April for this feed&#8217;s birthday (former installments: 2004, 2005, 2006,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-useless"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}