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Monday, March 10, 2008 11:09 AM

WCF & REST at MIX08: The Tale of MySpace APIs

[Update: we received notice that not all of you were able to download the video . We fixed the issue already friday night, it should work for everybody. Enjoy! Thanks to Terje for the first headsup] Yesterday we finally had the session about the making
Posted by vibro | 5 Comments
Friday, February 01, 2008 9:36 AM

WCF and MySpace: a RESTful MIX session!

We just recently published a list of sessions for MIX08 . Among those, there is one that I hold especially dear: I had the luck to work with Paul, his team and the WCF team in the last months, specifically on how to leverage the web capabilities that
Posted by vibro | 16 Comments
Thursday, January 31, 2008 6:43 PM

CardSpace and Financial Services: HaWaNeDo with Figlo!

Few months ago I made a little tour of Europe , and (among various places I visited) I went to spent some quality time in Amsterdam. Here I had the pleasure of spending some time with Albert van den Broek , CGO of Figlo : Albert is an excellent host,
Posted by vibro | 1 Comments
Monday, December 31, 2007 8:05 PM

Year's end blabbering: Omnidirectional Identities

On the Paris-Seattle flight, coming back after 2 weeks spent stuffing myself with all sorts of food with the excuse "after all, you can't find this in USA" :) Before hurling myself back in the vortex of daily work, and celebrate the end of the year with
Posted by vibro | 7 Comments
Wednesday, October 17, 2007 2:46 PM

First draft of the book "Understanding Windows CardSpace" available on Rough Cuts

Ah finally. I waited for this moment a looong time :-) the first draft of "Understanding Windows CardSpace" is available in prerelease online, on Safari Rough Cuts . More details below. It's already few weeks that our book, " Understanding Windows CardSpace
Posted by vibro | 11 Comments
Tuesday, September 25, 2007 2:03 PM

Windows CardSpace will work without HTTPS, too

In short: I discuss a new feature, introduced by the .NET framework 3.5 and by a (future) update of IE, which enables the use of CardSpace also on websites on normal http (as opposed to https). Back in January I was asking Caleb (SDET on the CardSpace
Posted by vibro | 8 Comments
Monday, September 24, 2007 9:21 AM

The Resource STS: R-STS, RP-STS, A-STS... the other face of token issuing

In short: I talk a bit about the idea of resource STS, and I give the ropes of the messages exchanged for engaging it. When you get introduced to the Identity Metasystem, one of the first things you hear about is the role subdivision it proposes: subjects,
Posted by vibro | 5 Comments
Monday, September 03, 2007 11:47 PM

While I was sleeping...

[There's not much tech content in this post. You read it all at your risk :-) the next posts will get the technical discussion back on track from where we left it a couple months ago] From the all time record of 17 posts in June, this feed dropped to
Posted by vibro | 1 Comments
Wednesday, August 29, 2007 4:16 AM

Windows Live ID now supports logging in with personal cards

I am breaking the long silence for a quick note about a milestone in our road for adding pervasive information cards support: the liveid guys added personal cards as al alternative methods of accessing your account: all the details here . Now THAT's a
Posted by vibro | 2 Comments
Wednesday, June 27, 2007 1:14 PM

SignOn.com: CardSpace & OpenID

I knew that this edition of Catalyst was going to be exciting! If you are not among the lucky crowd that is attending the event, you can catch some news from the official news in Catalyst Live . Among those news, my eye got caught by the announcement
Posted by vibro | 3 Comments
Wednesday, June 27, 2007 12:49 AM

A (fiscal) year in review

It's that time of the year again: the end of June marks the end of the fiscal year, and for us it's time to reflect on what we've done in the past 12 months. Vast majority of the things I've done are internal-only or with high profile customers that can't
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Monday, June 11, 2007 12:51 AM

Credentials vs. Identity; Authentication vs.... what?

[ EDIT: added some sketch ] In short: I briefly discuss some differences between the password based authentication model and the token based one; then I propose that we lack a proper term for describing some of the transactions enabled by cardspace and
Posted by vibro | 7 Comments
Thursday, June 07, 2007 9:15 PM

Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis, Federation and Fresh Tokens

This morning I was reading Newsweek (before you get any ideas: I subscribed to BOTH Newsweek and Time) and the interesting account they made about the history of a person. Much is being written on the subject, just browse your favourite news website for
Posted by vibro | 1 Comments
Wednesday, May 30, 2007 6:08 PM

A RESTful CardSpace: sending tokens using the new WCF AJAX Services in Orcas

In short: this is the description of a sample that sends a CardSpace-obtained token to an AJAX service implemented with the new Orcas features. Few posts ago I published a tutorial about using CardSpace with Silver. While talking about it with Kushal
Posted by vibro | 4 Comments
Tuesday, May 29, 2007 10:19 PM

35,000 new phishing websites in just a month

The monthly report from http://www.antiphishing.org/ is always an instructive read. This April report contains some surprising numbers, as shown by the graphic below: The happy spike you notice in April07 is in fact not happy at all: it shows the efforts
Posted by vibro | 2 Comments
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