Craig Kitterman's Interoperability Community Blog : Identity

Interoperability on tap @ Interop Las Vegas!

craigkitterman — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 19:20:22 GMT

Again this year we will be talking interoperability at the Interop Las Vegas conference. The event is next week (Apr-27 to May-2) at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center. Microsoft will have a large booth presence where we will be showcasing a the work of many product groups as well as that of Interop Vendor Alliance members and other key partners like Novell to foster improved interoperability. Bob Muglia (Microsoft Sr. Vice President, Server and Tools) will be offering a keynote address on Tuesday afternoon at 2pm. As the host of our Interoperability Executive Customer Council, Bob is an outspoken advocate for delivering on our promise of interoperability, and always using customers as the compass for this work.

Additionally, we will be hosting an Interoperability Track during the conference program where we will discuss a variety of technical issues, and how interoperability challenges are being addressed in these areas through product development, community & partner engagement, access to technology, and standards. I will be hosting two of the sessions on Tuesday: one on Document Format Interoperability, and one on the Identity Metasystem. These are two subjects that are near and dear to my heard and to that of the broader IT community so I am looking forward to a lively and fruitful discussion.

If you have not yet signed up for the conference, now is your last chance! If you are coming, stop by and say "hi".

-C

Information Cards in PHP made easy!

craigkitterman — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:53:56 GMT

Developers can now integrate InfoCards into their PHP-based web projects using the recently released Zend Framework v1.5 with the Zend_InfoCard 1.5 library component. Documentation on Information Card integration can be found here. For more information about Information Cards and the identity metasystem, check out Kim Cameron's Identity Blog.

More information on the Imagine Cup Interoperability Award

craigkitterman — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 04:35:00 GMT

In the latest Channel8 video, my colleague Vijay Rajagopalan has some good info here about how the entries will be judged, and how he thinks about technical interoperability in the context of identity and the Imagine Cup theme of the environment. If you don't know him, Vijay is an interesting and very funny guy – but doesn't mess around when it comes to architecture J

More details on Interop Track @ XML 2007 Conference

craigkitterman — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 03:17:47 GMT

We have secured a number of great well-known speakers from the industry to help lead the discussions at this year's XML 2007 conference! It will be a fun event and hopefully an enlightening one as well.

The current schedule & speaker list for the Dec 4 sessions is as follows:

09:00 - Document Interop: Ecma Office Open XML and OASIS ODF
- Speakers: Miguel de Icaza (Novell Inc.), Vijay Rajagopalan (Microsoft)
11:00 - Enterprise Interop: Identity and XML
- Speakers: Matthew Weier O'Phinney (Zend), Vijay Rajagopalan (Microsoft)
14:00 - Web Interop: Ajax with XML and JSON
- Speakers: Douglas Crockford (Yahoo!), Matthew Weier O'Phinney (Zend), Vijay Rajagopalan (Microsoft)
16:00 - Interop Round Table & Happy Hour – Development Discussion on Interop and XML. (Hors d'oeuvres and drinks hosted by Microsoft).
- Speakers: Douglas Crockford (Yahoo!), Miguel de Icaza (Novell), Matthew Weier O'Phinney (Zend), Shyam Pather (Microsoft), Vijay Rajagopalan (Microsoft), Craig Kitterman (Microsoft)

I am really looking forward to meeting a lot of passionate XML gurus and sharing some great technical discussion! See you in Boston.

Welcome Adam Wiener to the Blogosphere!

craigkitterman — Wed, 30 May 2007 03:35:22 GMT

I would like to welcome my colleague Adam Wiener to the blogosphere. Adam is a XML and data guru and is currently driving some great interoperability work in the identity space that he will be discussing regularly (I hope) on his blog. Please take a moment to stop by, drop a comment, and grab an RSS feed.