The archaeopteryx roamed the south of Germany in the late Jurassic. It is considered the very first bird species, although many of its features (teeth, wing claws, bony tail) are clearly still dinosaur-like rather than avian. It had the first ever-recorded asymmetric wing feathers, one key characteristic...

[Update: reposted per the blogs.msdn.com update] Greetings from Melbourne! It’s 4:00am here and I just jumped out of the bed, today I the flight back to Redmond. If you know me you know I am not a morning person, you can imagine the mood I would normally be in right now… and instead I...

…and fire in the sky ♫ Don’t you hate it when a technical blog devolves in what is for the most part a series of announcements? That’s kind of what happened to mine. The reality is that making the things which get announced here take an inordinate amount of time, and that every remaining moment (usually...

Have you booked your trip to Vegas yet? Amidst all the excitement for Windows Phone 7 Series, Silverlight & the cloud, if you know how to search the MIX content you’ll find two identity pearls: Using Windows Identity Foundation For Creating Identity-Driven Experiences in Silverlight Caleb Baker Come...

Here there’s a very quick post about an often debated topic, home realm discovery. When your web application trusts multiple identity providers, the first task you have when processing a request is figuring out from where the user is coming from. If the user is coming from your partner Adatum, he...

  As promised last week , here there’s the video of my other session at the Belgian TechDays . This session was part of the Architecture track, hence I took a mildly different, more abstract approach: I position Cloud computing as a trend (storytelling the famous parallel between last century’s...

  Few months ago I had the pleasure to spend few days in Antwerp, Belgium, where I participated to the local TechDays event and gave a couple of sessions . Katrien recently announced that the Belgian DPE team just published the videos of all the sessions , which is a great move since the event was...

While I was circling SFO searching for the Avis rentals return park, yesterday Donovan was publishing a new episode of the Id Element : this time you get to see the man, as opposed of the usual disembodied voice, as he interviews the Otis and Vijay about the Lake Washington School District project or...

While I am still enjoying EIC in Munich, back in Redmond things happily go forward: yesterday Donovan published with German punctuality a new episode of the Id Element, during which he chats with Ruchi about Windows CardSpace “Geneva” . Enjoy the show!

Interesting discussion going on on Chris’ blog about OpenID & usability. There are many aspects I’d like to discuss, but it’s 11:34pm and “tomorrow” I have a conference call at 7:00am (sometimes the fact that the Earth is round DOES suck: sorry, Cristoforo): hence I better pick carefully. Ah, did...

Here we are again. I am just back from Belgium’s TechDays , and I can still savor the nice feeling you get from talking in front of a very interested audience :-) I’m really glad to see that both the cloud and claims based identity are enjoying the attention they deserve! I have been asked to share the...

In the last few months I ended up on the wrong side of a camera a few number of times, but I was far too busy with the other deliverables to track when and where the results were going to be published. Now the videos are probably a bit out of context, but for completeness I’ll list them anyway. In reverse...

[Disclaimer(): base() { this blog is NOT the source of the official guidance on the Geneva products. Please always check out the Geneva team blog for hearing directly from the product group} ] In the former installment I blabbered a bit about how an STS is a serious matter, and I can almost visualize...

[Disclaimer(): base() { this blog is NOT the source of the official guidance on the Geneva products. Please always check out the Geneva team blog for hearing directly from the product group} ] Few weeks ago I had the pleasure of presenting, together with Planky, a TechEd EMEA interactive session on...

  PDC has come and gone, and Microsoft's identity landscape has changed. New products emerged, services appeared or underwent profound transformations: but the remarkable thing is that all elements, none excluded, are part of a single,company-wide, consistent strategy that aims at putting the user...

Identity is everywhere at this PDC2008! After the keynotes and the many breakouts, let me introduce you to the Booth. We are in the Big Room, on your right, and we are easily recognizable thanks to 1) the big "Identity for software+services" signage and 2) the fashionable pistacchio shirts we drape ourselves...

Almost a year has passed since TechEd EMEA; I remember giving a chalk talk on STSes and claims based identity in general, and a guy from the audience who was asking especially elaborate questions... it was clear that he was hands on and had a lot of experience in developing for CardSpace. I later learned...

Greetings from the far New Zealand :-) this is a great place, I wish I'd have more time to look around. I compensated by spending a stupid amount of money in souvenirs (all bought in about 20 mins, so without much judgement (if ever)). Yesterday I had my session on Cloud & Identity, and in few mins...

You would not believe how often I have to set up identity enabled web sites: for verifying a theory, for proving a point with colleagues, for demos and events... really really often. Vast majority of cases those are barely proofs of concept, nothing elaborated, so I've been working for reducing the overhead...

I am sure you are all more than familiar with DreamSpark , the amazing (YES, amazing. Bravo Milo!) offer through which Microsoft gives access to developer & designer tools at no charge. That requires, naturally, to be able to prove that you are indeed a student. Eduserv is a not-for-profit UK-based...

The latest issue of the Architecture Journal is available for download here (I am breaking the news even before the rest of the pages are updated from issue 15 to issue 16: see how much I care about you?;-)). What makes this especially interesting is that issue 16 is entirely dedicated to identity...

With few weeks of delay I finally forced in my schedule the conclusion of my little getting started series "... using Zermatt" (links to former episodes: setting up an STS for smartcard-backed managed cards & issuing smartcard-backed managed cards ). The first posts I wrote about Zermatt were...

I was dividing my attention between the Scrubs special on TV & Digg on my PC, when an article titled " Experts: Passwords May Not Be a Good Online Defense " caught my eye: well, couldn't agree more!:-) It turns out that the article is from the NY Times, and it's short & sweet hence...

Well, it's almost one month since I wrote the last " useful " posts : you would not believe how incredibly busy I am on stuff I can't talk about just yet (but soon, very soon). In this quick update I am excited to report that I am going to speak at TechEd New Zealand & TechEd Australia ! As strange...

It's since April that I don'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's blog . Both reviews are extremely nice, for which...