{"id":769,"date":"2005-12-05T03:45:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-05T12:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/05\/the-meaning-of-the-symbol\/"},"modified":"2013-03-15T21:44:46","modified_gmt":"2013-03-16T06:44:46","slug":"500005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/05\/500005\/","title":{"rendered":"The meaning of the symbol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>I&#8217;d like to thank everybody who gave feedback about the <A href=\"http:\/\/groups.msn.com\/_Secure\/0WQAJAy8bG!l6Tip8Y1kOO*Ri*SfyIhz*rZ8ZbVjyXIKNPqoqFVyfwj83TK4ta4vpcWjFRCOtJJ8EnJjFnPpHW07D*tlOdGgIa9q!5mveABJVz55Kq8Sd3jQO0Ere7QrHWNIe4SS34!0\/LHSAPcolorful.JPG\">symbol <\/A>I&#8217;ve proposed in the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/vbertocci\/archive\/2005\/12\/01\/499199.aspx\">last post<\/A>.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>The results made pretty much clear that without a context the meaning of the symbol is pretty hard to parse. However it was hoping too much to get an immediate comprehension of it, as it tries to espress a bunch of things at the same time.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>I&#8217;m trying to find a concise way of representing the new way of developing enabled by the WinFx wave, so:<\/P><br \/>\n<UL><br \/>\n<LI>The small flowchart represent a new way of coding, developing using Windows Workflow Foundation;<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>The web service symbol surrounding&nbsp;the flowchart&nbsp;suggests how you host and expose your WF code, in a service;<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>Finally, the shield with the key should remind that the service access will be secured by some identity mechanism<\/LI><\/UL><br \/>\n<P>Apart from the shield, which is more about generic security rather than specific identity in itself, the Workflow symbol and the WS are pretty much mainstream: I need to make them more recognizable. And it&#8217;s clear that it&#8217;s probably unsuitable to be used without first establishing the context, or without accopanying it with some text; it then maybe act as an anchor for remembering what it&#8217;s al about.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Thanks again!<\/P><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d like to thank everybody who gave feedback about the symbol I&#8217;ve proposed in the last post. The results made pretty much clear that without a context the meaning of the symbol is pretty hard to parse. However it was hoping too much to get an immediate comprehension of it, as it tries&#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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769","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=769"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1835,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769\/revisions\/1835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}