{"id":533,"date":"2008-07-21T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-21T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/21\/2-new-great-reviews-for-our-book-and-status-after-12-year-of-availability\/"},"modified":"2013-03-14T22:27:09","modified_gmt":"2013-03-15T07:27:09","slug":"2-new-great-reviews-for-our-book-and-status-after-1-2-year-of-availability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/21\/2-new-great-reviews-for-our-book-and-status-after-1-2-year-of-availability\/","title":{"rendered":"2 new great reviews for our book, and status after 1\/2 year of availability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>It&#8217;s since April that I don&#8217;t write about <A href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0321496841\">the book<\/A> (at the time we released <A href=\"http:\/\/download.microsoft.com\/download\/d\/3\/9\/d399b17c-0958-49b7-8559-bea1956c2c5b\/0321496841_02.pdf\">the entire Chapter 2 on MSDN<\/A>). Last week I received notice that 2 new reviews were published: <A href=\"http:\/\/www.denvervisualstudio.net\/Reviews\/Books2008\/Book04012008.htm\">one is from the Denver Visual Studio User Group<\/A>, <A href=\"http:\/\/www.paulvanbrenk.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/17\/BookUnderstandingWindowsCardSpace.aspx\">the other is on Paul Van Brenk&#8217;s blog<\/A>. Both reviews are extremely nice, for which we are very grateful; I especially like the fact that in both cases the reviewers perceived our intention to deal with the problem from an holistic point of view, regardless of our affiliation with a technology or another. Thank you guys! (update: I&#8217;ve just stumbled in another review I didn&#8217;t know about, <A class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/issuu.com\/insecure\/docs\/insecure-17\/27\">on (in)secure magazine issue 17<\/A>. Niiiiice). In fact, in the last months various illustrious figures mentioned <A href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0321496841\">our book<\/A> as well: <A href=\"http:\/\/www.davidchappell.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/understanding-windows-cardspace.html\">David Chappell<\/A>, <A href=\"http:\/\/www.equalsdrummond.name\/?p=123\">Drummond Reed<\/A> and <A href=\"http:\/\/www.francisshanahan.com\/\">Francis Shanahan<\/A> wrote extremely nice reviews I never mentioned here until now, while I did mention the first entries from <A href=\"http:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/?p=927\">Kim<\/A> and <A href=\"http:\/\/self-issued.info\/?p=54\">Mike<\/A>. Add that to the <A href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/vbertocci\/archive\/2008\/03\/24\/perspectives-on10-net-podcast-interview-with-jon-udell-on-identity-understanding-windows-cardspace.aspx\">podcast on Perspectives<\/A>, the <A href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/vbertocci\/archive\/2008\/01\/22\/understanding-windows-cardspace-on-the-front-page-of-channel9.aspx\">interview on channel9<\/A> with Carlo &amp; Caleb, the <A href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/vbertocci\/archive\/2008\/04\/10\/podcast-on-understanding-windows-cardspace-at-searchwindevelopment-com.aspx\">podcast on SearchWinDevelopment<\/A>, the <A href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/vbertocci\/archive\/2008\/02\/04\/the-entire-chapter-2-of-understanding-windows-cardspace-published-on-code-project.aspx\">bonus chapter on codeproject<\/A>, the extremely nice reviews on the <A href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0321496841\">Amazon US page<\/A>&#8230; and again,&nbsp;mentions from <A class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/neilhut\/archive\/2008\/01\/24\/understanding-windows-cardspace-book.aspx\">Neil Hutson<\/A>,&nbsp;<A class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/astrauss\/archive\/2008\/02\/08\/what-you-always-wanted-to-know-about-microsoft-cardspace-part-3.aspx\">Alexander Strauss<\/A>, <A class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/italy\/archive\/2008\/01\/23\/cardspace-il-sole24ore-e-vittorio.aspx\">Feliciano Intini<\/A>, <A class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/mariofontana\/archive\/tags\/CardSpace\/default.aspx\">Mario Fontana<\/A>, &#8230;&nbsp;I am sure I am forgetting something (for which I apologize). And now that I begun to hang out at Identity conferences, I can&#8217;t tell you how pleasant it is to have complete strangers zeroing on you and telling you all sorts of nice things \ud83d\ude42 I guess I am easily recognizable after all!<\/P><br \/>\n<P>In summary: in the 6\/7 months that <A href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0321496841\">the book<\/A> has been available, we received an incredible amount of love about it. Thank you all!!! As always, if you have feedback feel free to get in touch via this feed<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s since April that I don&#8217;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&#8217;s blog. 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