May 2007 - Posts
I realized today that the WCF Magic8Ball sample app that I posted some time ago is now woefully out of date, so I spruced it up a little and posted an updated version of the source. Enjoy!
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Mike Jones has posted the news that Internet2 (the advanced networking consortium) announced last week that they are adding support for information cards to the Shibboleth federated authentication infrastructure . This is fantastic news for the millions
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Halo3 arrives on Sept 25th 2007 ! :) You might want to book September 25th - 28th as vacation ... or at least have the courtesy to call-in sick ahead of time! ;) I've been playing the beta on XBox Live for a while now and it's gorgeous :) It's sufficiently
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I received an email from a long-time follower of my blog that I thought might serve to spark a little interesting debate and also serve as a marker in time for my opinions on the subject of ESB and the ever elusive "successfully delivered big project":
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A few weeks ago I published a couple of screencasts on Channel9. The first illustrated the Windows CardSpace user experience and how you can add support for information cards to your site with very little code. The second went on to demonstrate how to
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For those that are not aware, several months ago, we launched the Windows CardSpace “Sandbox” that you can play with to try out the CardSpace experience. Whilst many of you have managed to work out how to register and sign-in, many of you have experienced
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Read the story here: http://www.theregister.com/2007/05/07/tsa_loses_hard_drive/ The TSA doesn't know whether the device is still within headquarters or was stolen. <Snip/> They are unsure whether the data was encrypted or not. I don't want to sound
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If you ever wondered why Kim worked so hard to form the 7 Laws of Identity , you *MUST* watch this short video! http://www.adcritic.com/interactive/view.php?id=5927 Whilst funny, it's also shockingly potent.
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Even the big guys can get website security and privacy severely wrong ! A British Gas website that allows homeowners to pay bills leaves consumers exposed by inviting them to submit credit card information across an unencrypted link. Consumers logging
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We have published a number of resources illustrating in detail how to add Windows CardSpace support to your website (VB.NET version here ), but these resources primarily provide technical details and don't provide guidance for questions like "what happens
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Add support for Information Cards to your site and win a trip to Redmond and dinner with Kim Cameron! Identifying yourself online is becoming increasingly difficult and dangerous. Most people who use the web have to maintain several usernames and passwords
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Don "Des" Schmidt , one of the guys who has been leading Microsoft's participation in the formation of both protocols and technologies to enable federated identity to become a reality, has just joined the blogosphere . Please be sure to go visit Don's
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OASIS are calling members to participate in a Technical Committee that will work to drive WS-Federation through the OASIS standardization process. Wooohooo! J The proposed WS-Federation protocol spec has been around for a while now (v1.0 was published
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