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• The Wacom Intuos 4 Tablet is terrific

  I've been interested, recently, in improving my digital art skills from their current state of being entirely non-existent. As a developer, I wish to be capable of doing more attractive user interfaces for applications I'm mocking up. As an initial project, Read More... Posted Sunday, October 18, 2009 10:50 AM by CraigMcMurtry | 1 Comments

• Microsoft Identity Lifecycle Manager "2:" Careful of how you use those question-and-answer gates

  One of the features of Microsoft Identity Lifecycle Manager "2" is self-service password re-set. That feature sits on top of a generic facility of the Microsoft Identity Lifecycle Manager service that provides for multi-factor authentication. To explain, Read More... Posted Monday, October 20, 2008 5:46 AM by CraigMcMurtry | 1 Comments Filed under: Identity Management

• Body of Lies

  I read a lot of spy fiction. I have observed that the sociology of an espionage organization, as depicted, especially by Len Deighton, is very similar to that of a software development enterprise. While I may expand on that observation in more detail Read More... Posted Monday, October 20, 2008 5:31 AM by CraigMcMurtry | 0 Comments Filed under: Sociology

• Microsoft Identity Lifecycle Manager "2:" Some definitions you may find useful

  Requests In the argot of Microsoft Identity Lifecycle Manager, a request is a request to perform some operation on resource or on all or some of the attributes of a resource. The resource to which a request refers is generally known as the target of the Read More... Posted Monday, October 20, 2008 5:22 AM by CraigMcMurtry | 2 Comments Filed under: Identity Management

• A Fifteenth-Century Dilbert Cartoon

  Reading Judith Barker's excellent Agincourt: Henry V and the Battle That Made England , I came across what is, in effect, an early fifteenth-century Dilbert cartoon. Barker, in discussing the strategtic logistical planning for the Agincourt campaign, Read More... Posted Monday, October 20, 2008 5:08 AM by CraigMcMurtry | 2 Comments Filed under: Sociology

• Microsoft Identity Lifecycle Manager "2:" What is it about Canadians and identity?

  A startling proportion of our team, including myself, are Canadians, either by birth, or, like me, by naturalization. Also, two of the products that Microsoft purchased and are now incorporated into Microsoft Identity Lifecycle Manager "2"--the synchronization Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 01, 2008 12:07 PM by CraigMcMurtry | 1 Comments Filed under: Identity Management

• Microsoft Identity Lifecycle Manager "2:" Why am I able to talk about it now?

  That I am able to spend time blogging about Microsoft Identity Lifecycle Manager "2" has nothing to do with some scary marketing person suddenly declaring that we are allowed to talk about the product now, when we weren't able to before. We've been public Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 01, 2008 11:42 AM by CraigMcMurtry | 1 Comments Filed under: Identity Management

• Microsoft Identity Lifecycle Manager "2:" The Policy User Interface

  A previous post introduced you to Microsoft Identity Lifecycle Manager "2"'s concept of policy. We provide a user interface for managing and creating policies. Here are some screenshots stepping through the process of creating a policy to allow users Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 01, 2008 9:14 AM by CraigMcMurtry | 1 Comments Filed under: Identity Management

• "EasyCoded.com is a pathetic intellectual property-squat."

  Ping that back. Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 01, 2008 8:54 AM by CraigMcMurtry | 4 Comments

• Goldfrapp at the Seattle Showbox SODO

  Goldfrapp played the Showbox SODO here in Seattle two weeks ago: their only general admission gig in North America on this leg of their tour. I showed up at 4:30 to secure a spot in the front row when they came on at 10. I'd like to thank the the folk Read More... Posted Tuesday, September 30, 2008 9:39 AM by CraigMcMurtry | 1 Comments Filed under: Goldfrapp

• Microsoft Identity Lifeycycle Manager "2:" Policies

  Now that I have explained that the concept of organizing things into sets is the most fundamental idea in Microsoft Identity Lifecycle Manager "2," I can tell you about a notion that builds upon it: management policy rules. Now I have no idea why we use Read More... Posted Monday, September 29, 2008 1:18 PM by CraigMcMurtry | 1 Comments Filed under: Identity Management

• Microsoft Identity Lifecycle Manager "2:" Sets, the easy way

  In an earlier post , I explained the crucial concept of organizing things into sets, in Microsoft Identity Lifecycle Manager "2." I wrote that sets are collections of things that match some criterion, expressed in an XPath expression. Well, because Microsoft Read More... Posted Monday, September 29, 2008 12:34 PM by CraigMcMurtry | 1 Comments Filed under: Identity Management

• Microsoft Identity Lifecycle Manager "2:" Here's what I'm talking about 2

  Here is the schema administration page that I mentioned in an earlier post : Read More... Posted Monday, September 29, 2008 12:26 PM by CraigMcMurtry | 1 Comments Filed under: Identity Management

• Microsoft Identity Lifecycle Manager "2:" Here's what I'm talking about

  Here is a screenshot of the Microsoft Identity Lifecycle Manager "2" home page: Read More... Posted Monday, September 29, 2008 12:16 PM by CraigMcMurtry | 1 Comments Filed under: Identity Management

• Microsoft Identity Lifecycle Manager "2:" Sets

  The concept of organizing things into sets is the most fundamental idea behind Microsoft Identity Lifecycle Manager "2." Our Group Program Manager, Alex Weinert, had listened to the requirements our customers had expressed for a self-service update to Read More... Posted Monday, September 29, 2008 8:27 AM by CraigMcMurtry | 0 Comments Filed under: Identity Management