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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

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