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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 blog . Both reviews are extremely nice, for which we are very grateful; I especially like the fact that in both cases the reviewers perceived our intention to deal with the problem from an holistic point of view, regardless of our affiliation with a technology or another. Thank you guys! (update: I've just stumbled in another review I didn't know about, on (in)secure magazine issue 17 . Niiiiice). In fact, in the last months various illustrious figures mentioned our book as well: David Chappell , Drummond Reed and Francis Shanahan wrote extremely nice reviews I never mentioned here until now, while I did mention the first entries from Kim and Mike . Add that to the podcast on Perspectives , the interview on channel9 with Carlo & Caleb, the podcast on SearchWinDevelopment , the bonus chapter on codeproject , the extremely nice reviews on the Amazon US page ... and again, mentions from Neil Hutson , Alexander Strauss , Feliciano Intini , Mario Fontana , ... I am sure I am forgetting something (for which I apologize). And now that I begun to hang out at Identity conferences, I can't tell you how pleasant it is to have complete strangers zeroing on you and telling you all sorts of nice things :-) I guess I am easily recognizable Read More...
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Jon Udell recently launched a new interesting format on the website perspectives.on10.net. Perspectives is a series of in-depth conversations with passionate innovators. Most work for Microsoft; some work elsewhere; all are advancing the state of the art in areas as diverse as robotics, digital identity, e-science, and social software. Information technology is the common thread, and Perspectives appeals to the technically-minded, but the show also aims to tell stories in ways that make sense to a wider audience. Each installment of Perspectives is delivered as an audio podcast, and supplemented by a partial text transcript. The first episode was an interview with two guys from the Robotics Studio team, Tandy Trower and Henrik Frystyk Nielsen. The quality of the interview is clearly top notch, the scope of the topics strategic & forward looking but still solidly rooted in technology: Jon's editing makes things flow beautifully, and the transcript is incredibly handy for speed readers & search engines. In short, I LOVE IT :-) Hence, it is with ill-concealed pride that I announce the subject of the second episode : it is a chat I had with Jon back in December , just days before the book came out. The casus belli was the book itself, that Jon was so kind to read in prerelease version, but we ended up talking about identity on a much wider sense. We touched on certificates versus managed cards, omnidirectional vs unidirectional identities, WS-*, openID... Jon is a *great interviewer*, Read More...
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Few days ago I've been notified that the 2nd chapter of our book "Understanding Windows CardSpace" is now available for free online , on the pages of Code Project (takes some time to load from my connection, don't give up). That's a very big chapter, for architects and business decision makers, focused on showing how the identity laws and the identity metasystem are addressing many of the challenges presented in chapter 1. It also shows the role played by WS-Trust & friends . There's not much of Windows CardSpace in this chapter, apart from its positioning as the identity selector that comes with Windows: in fact I like to think that the same text could have been used in a book about Higgins or any of the of the projects in this space. (BTW, Paul says extremely kind things about the book here . Thank you Paul !). Many of the topics in the chapter do not have a natural order of presentation, but they all sort of depend from one another in a way which was pretty difficult to disentangle. Furthermore it is important to introduce all the new concepts in the right context, in a coherent discussion, without forgetting anything important just because you approached the matter form one angle rather than another. To give you an idea of the planning effort it required, I fished from my archives one of my mindmaps for this chapter: Pretty wide, eh? I just *love* MindManager ! See, that's the essence of a discussion I had almost one year ago with my good friend Gianpaolo . We were discussing Read More...
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[synopsis for the English readers: a financial newspaper in Italy published an article about CardSpace ; I make some considerations about it] Cari lettori italiani, e' parecchio che non scrivo un post nella lingua natia... come e' parecchio che non trovo il tempo di pescare qualche collega italico e immortalarlo per Italia9 ; provero' a fare qualcosa a fine febbraio, ma non prometto nulla :-) Comunque. Oggi sono passato dall'ufficio di Kim Cameron , per portargli una copia del Libro (autografata :-))e ringraziarlo ancora per la sua lusinghiera prefazione. Mentre stiamo amabilmente discutendo come sta andando il libro (bene, grazie!!! ;)) improvvisamente si interrompe ed esclama "ah, I've got something to show YOU". Woah, chissa' cos'e'.. non gli sara' piaciuto qualcosa che ho detto nel video uscito ieri su channel9 e mi vuole bastonare? Si mette ad armeggiare con la stampante e mi porge il printout di un articolo su cardspace ... in italiano! Quando e' passato dall'Italia lo scorso Novembre (Feliciano ne ha parlato qui ) e' stato intervistato da ilSole24Ore, che oggi ha pubblicato un articolo al riguardo . L'articolo e' ben bilanciato, e IMHO riesce bene nel comunicare l'essenza del problema anche ai non addetti ai lavori. Sono davvero felice che una testata prestigiosa come ilSole24Ore contribuisca a portare il problema all'attenzione di tutti e soprattutto dei business decision makers. L'unica cosa che mi sento di sollevare e' lo spelling sbagliato del progetto Higgins ("HiggHins"), Read More...
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