The Hogg Blog
Envisaging the Future by Reflecting on the Past
It is amazing for me to think that it has been 30 years since the ZX Spectrum was released. The BBC...
Date: 04/23/2012
In last weeks blog post Creating a Semantic Web for PowerShell I introduce our vision for...
Date: 04/16/2012
A couple of weeks ago we announced that we had just released our first beta of Microsoft Script...
Date: 04/13/2012
Well over a year ago our Information Experience team set out to redefine the way Microsoft delivers...
Date: 03/13/2012
Our industry lost one of its great pioneers with the passing of Steve Jobs on Wednesday. As a young...
Date: 10/07/2011
My friend Eric Battalio is leading an effort to update the Windows PowerShell Survival Guide on the...
Date: 01/28/2011
It is amazing to think how much has changed over the last decade or so – evolution of the cloud,...
Date: 01/21/2011
We need your help! The Information Experience (iX) team at Microsoft is looking for your help and...
Date: 01/21/2011
My friend Alik just sent me to a pointer to a Survival Guide he is working on for the Azure ACS. The...
Date: 11/02/2010
Over the last couple of months I have been working on a Reference Architecture to support the design...
Date: 06/21/2010
I grew up in both Australia and New Zealand - a long way from the US and the UK where home computing...
Date: 05/27/2010
The Microsoft Solution Engineering Team in which I work has just started its own blog - so I wrote...
Date: 04/22/2010
It is that time of the year again – thanksgiving. So that of course means I need to update the...
Date: 11/25/2009
I am presenting a discussion on SOA, S+S and Cloud computing later today at SOA Symposium. I have...
Date: 10/23/2009
I presented a discussion on SOA Security Patterns at the SOA Symposium today in Rotterdam. The...
Date: 10/23/2009
About a 18 months ago Thomas Erl approached a group of us at Microsoft if we could review the SOA...
Date: 09/27/2009
Diegon Dagum has just sent out the release note for the latest edition of the Microsoft Architecture...
Date: 09/27/2009
I finally got around to updating the SecPAL Parser to run on the latest version of Visual Studio and...
Date: 09/26/2009
Last October we ran a SOA workshop in Redmond, with the goal being to have members of the MCS field,...
Date: 01/28/2009
Another blog that is several months late, but as usual, better late than never. I am currently...
Date: 01/27/2009
I recently called the support number to verify a charge on my Wells Fargo account and it surprised...
Date: 01/06/2009
I did a particularly lousy job of sending out Christmas cards this year, so figured I would instead...
Date: 12/24/2008
If your desk is anything like mine it is cluttered with millions of sticky notes, each containing...
Date: 12/17/2008
This one is a little late to press, but for those who haven't already seen it the Architecture...
Date: 12/12/2008
My colleague Joshy Joseph reminded me that the MGrammar based Turtle Graphics parser that I posted...
Date: 12/12/2008
In the early 1980's a programming language called Turtle Graphics was used as a means of introducing...
Date: 11/25/2008
For anyone who has followed my blogs around developing an STS or writing authorization policies you...
Date: 10/27/2008
I am here at the PDC in Los Angeles having just watched Ray Ozzie and Bob Muglia finally present the...
Date: 10/27/2008
Chris Smith from the F# team has an awesome blog post on language oriented programming - and...
Date: 06/20/2008
Over the last 12 months we have had a lot of people who used the Web Service Security - Scenarios,...
Date: 06/20/2008
I am sure that everyone has used a WhoIs utility (such as https://www.internic.org/whois.html) for...
Date: 03/31/2008
It has been a long time since I have blogged (more about that in some later posts), but two recent...
Date: 03/22/2008
Every week or so I get another email asking where the sample code for the SAML STS for WSE 3.0 has...
Date: 11/21/2007
I just saw the announcement on Don and Soma's blogs about the fact that a product team has...
Date: 10/18/2007
I happened to be up early this morning and shot some nice photos of the lunar eclipse that happened...
Date: 08/28/2007
In my previous post I mentioned that we have now released a parser for SecPAL that allows policies...
Date: 08/28/2007
One of the great strengths of SecPAL is its unique support for multiple representations of a...
Date: 08/26/2007
Anyone who has dealt with X.509 certificates when trying to design, test and deploy secure Web...
Date: 08/20/2007
Panos, from the University of Newcastle just dropped me a note to say that he is making progress...
Date: 08/08/2007
The 20th IEEE Computer Security Foundations conference is underway in Venice at the moment, and our...
Date: 07/07/2007
One question I hear a lot is "How does SecPAL compare with...
Date: 07/03/2007
I remember reading an article by Grady Booch a couple of years ago (I can't find it now) where he...
Date: 07/02/2007
A couple of people have remarked to us that they like the flexibility that SecPAL provides, but feel...
Date: 06/21/2007
In my earlier post I showed how SecPAL could be used to grant access to a particular user based on a...
Date: 06/20/2007
I figured I would try to learn F# over this summer - and thought what better way to start than...
Date: 06/15/2007