Vibro.NETScatter thoughtsValidation, Authentication, Authorization: mangling tokens for your dark purposes- June 30, 2008 Flying back from S.Diego, after attending a great edition of Catalyst. I should probably write down my impressions before they fade, like it happened with the IIW, but there's in fact something (only mildly related) that bugged me for quite some time and I just want to flush it out of my system before going in vacation (somehow I feel that my old time Italian friends would not appreciate me blabbering about tokens, especially if I do it with my mouth full of focaccia al formaggio :-)). Ok, the.http://blogs.msdn.com/vbertocci/archive/2008/06/30/validation-authentication-authorization... Information Card Foundation- June 24, 2008 No, Harry Seldon has nothing to do with it :-) The establishment of the Information Card Foundation is a milestone in the road of a better Internet. In their own words: Information Cards are the new way to control your personal data and identity on the web. The Information Card Foundation is a group of thoughtful designers, architects, and companies who want to make the digital world easier for you by building better products that help you get control of your personal information. See Mike's..http://blogs.msdn.com/vbertocci/archive/2008/06/24/information-card-foundation.aspx Toward Catalyst- June 23, 2008 edit: the Microsoft Hospitality Suite is on Thursday, not on wednesday as I originally wrote. Thanks Christian! Next week is Catalyst time. It will be a nice time to raise my head a bit from all the super interesting (but sometime exhausting) stuff we're brewing here in Redmond, which is leaving me little (zero) time for blogging. It's always very nice to have a chance to spend time with other identirati, there's nothing better than that for preventing groupthink. Last field trip, the IIW,.http://blogs.msdn.com/vbertocci/archive/2008/06/23/toward-catalyst.aspx Live Mesh: ...because I can- June 6, 2008 I am sure you already fell in love with Live Mesh: I know I did. Today I did a little experiment, which probably shows how desperately I need to go in vacation ASAP: I wanted to do a mega-remote session that would go through pretty much all the physical machines I am using there days. The sequence is as follows: laptop in the living room --> Media Center in the den -->laptop on my desk at work -->UMPC in the living room -->desktop at work Apart from the first leg, done via...http://blogs.msdn.com/vbertocci/archive/2008/06/05/live-mesh-because-i-can.aspx Active, Passive and Passive-Aggressive- June 5, 2008 Ahh, terminology: joy and sorrow of our kind. There are some expressions that are very catchy and we use all the time, but that do not always serve well the purpose of communicating our thoughts. Take the usage of "passive" in the context of identity management; we tend to use it every time a web browser is in the picture, but that can be extremely confusing: if you just mean "I am talking about a web app" but you audience understands "he is going to use WS-Federation", you can be sure that...http://blogs.msdn.com/vbertocci/archive/2008/06/05/active-passive-and-passive-aggressive.a... Hide svc extension from your REST services with the URLrewrite module for IIS7- June 1, 2008 I am now focusing exclusively on identity & services, true, but certain news about former interests of mine are just too good not to share. While evangelizing the web capabilities of WCF introduced in the framework 3.5, one of the most recurring questions was about hiding the svc extension for WCF services. That makes a lot of sense, since ideally a good RESTful URI (whatever that really means) should not give away the technology that is used to handle the resource and should not change...http://blogs.msdn.com/vbertocci/archive/2008/06/01/hide-svc-extension-from-your-rest-servi... |