It's that time again. Few months ago the Italian government fell, and as a good citizen I am called to the right-duty of casting my vote for electing the new one. There's a little detail, though: while in the past that meant taking a short walk through...

Last Friday I announced that the new version of the Biztalk Services SDK introduced support for managed cards; I also promised I would have given more details about how to use it. Well, a promise is a promise: this post will walk you through a sample...

Almost one year ago I briefly mentioned the Biztalk Service SDK, here and here . A new version has recently been made available: you would not believe the amount of new features that were added to it in this timeframe. The main reason of excitement for...

Jon Udell recently launched a new interesting format on the website perspectives.on10.net. Perspectives is a series of in-depth conversations with passionate innovators. Most work for Microsoft; some work elsewhere; all are advancing the state of the...

This year I am finally managing to attend RSA . At last, I'll be able to put a face on the URIs of the various feed I follow (more or less Mike 's blogroll) and exchange ideas in realtime meatspace. Looking forward! I almost hope that the sheer length...

(continues from Part I and Part II ) Finally we've lined up all the elements we need for understanding how we can get rid of the 1-2-3 tyranny, and deal with our business requirements directly instead of relying on an old model that forces us to perform...

Privacy, privacy. Interesting word: strange enough, I don't think we have a decent correspondent in Italian. On one side you have titanic efforts for protecting it: think U-Prove, an entirely new kind of cryptography that actually prevents linkage (see...

[Update: we received notice that not all of you were able to download the video . We fixed the issue already friday night, it should work for everybody. Enjoy! Thanks to Terje for the first headsup] Yesterday we finally had the session about the making...

(continues from Part I ) You can consider this post and the fine grained analysis we made in Part I as a down payment for grasping the implications we'll see in Part III, which I plan to post in few hours (almost done). I was planning to have just 2 parts...

Well, don't get fooled. I'm not going to make any big philosophical considerations about technology and privacy (though I may do that in the future), but I will talk about the little project I've put together after three gintonics & the MIX party...