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Thursday, July 24, 2008 7:32 PM

How did you get started in software development?

[I suggest my usual readers to skip this post altogether, you won't find anything useful here :-)] Romeo tagged me with this "How did you get started in software development?" quest. I was already feeling guilty, because given how swamped I am I knew
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Monday, July 21, 2008 1:00 AM

2 new great reviews for our book, and status after 1/2 year of availability

It's since April that I don't write about the book (at the time we released the entire Chapter 2 on MSDN ). Last week I received notice that 2 new reviews were published: one is from the Denver Visual Studio User Group , the other is on Paul Van Brenk's
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Thursday, July 17, 2008 2:30 PM

Issuing smartcard backed managed cards... using Zermatt

We are back! I hope you had fun with the STS tutorial I posted yesterday night ; here we move a step further and examine how to equip our STS with managed card issuance logic & UI. As anticipated, this is going to be MUCH faster. If you recall, in
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Thursday, July 17, 2008 12:11 AM

Setting up a quick & dirty STS which supports smartcard backed managed cards... using Zermatt

Just back from vacation. The tan barely started to fade, and here I am already playing with the new shiny toy :-). Did you experiment with Zermatt by now? As Kim mentions the samples (and the documentation) are an excellent way to start, and I am sure
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Friday, July 11, 2008 12:25 PM

John Fontana on Zermatt

I am sure you already saw Kim's post about John Fontana's interview with Stuart , appeared on Network World . I like how John communicates the importance of this release, and how it positions it in the context of the broader picture. Recommended reading
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Wednesday, July 09, 2008 10:58 AM

Announcing the Beta release of “Zermatt” Developer Identity Framework

Ahh, I’ve been looking forward for this post for a looong time. We just made available for download the bits of the Beta of “Zermatt” Developer Identity Framework . “ Zermatt ” is the codename of a .NET framework that helps developers build claims-aware
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Tuesday, July 01, 2008 3:32 PM

New home for Windows CardSpace on microsoft.com

One year ago we had a brief wall-to-wall exchange with Keith about the need of having consumer (as non-developer) info about CardSpace. The Information Card Foundation is doing a great job at handling those info for the general concept of information
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Tuesday, July 01, 2008 12:56 AM

How often should you ask for a token?

On the Seattle-Paris flight. I've just posted the piece about validation-authentication-authorization , and i am a bit bothered by the fact that I was unable to delve into greater details for what concerns the authoriZation part. In particular, I'd like
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