Mark Russinovich had a nice chat with David; check it out here . I really appreciate the practice of annotating the video with the times at which certain topics are touched, that allows me to thumb through things like I'm used to do with text: HUGE time saver! Ryan was to kind to suggest me to check out the view of the bookshelf on frame at 40.6s, shown below: if you look on the right, between "Windows with C/C++" and the old-style MSDN Universal container, you'll spot a certain well known

I am sure you are all more than familiar with DreamSpark , the amazing (YES, amazing. Bravo Milo!) offer through which Microsoft gives access to developer & designer tools at no charge. That requires, naturally, to be able to prove that you are indeed a student. Eduserv is a not-for-profit UK-based organization that focuses on IT solutions for the education sector: their identity management solutions are used by over 4 millions of students from universities in UK & other countries. And here

I was wondering why the identity xml schema was not updated after the release of ISIP 1.5 ... Here is my (unautorized) edit. Any xml that validates against the old schema should by valid against this new schema (but not the other way around). Well, I changed the namespace from http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/05/identity/ to http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2008/08/identity/: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!-- Copyright © 2006-2007 Microsoft Corporation, Inc. All rights reserved.

The latest issue of the Architecture Journal is available for download here (I am breaking the news even before the rest of the pages are updated from issue 15 to issue16: see how much I care about you?;-)). What makes this especially interesting is that issue 16 is entirely dedicated to identity! I have to admit that I've yet to read most of the articles, but I've definitely went through 2 of them: One is an interview/profile with Kim Cameron. It's a nice read, and I am sure you'll enjoy to know

Let's avoid the word "credential". It has so many meanings as to be confusing

I was dividing my attention between the Scrubs special on TV & Digg on my PC, when an article titled " Experts: Passwords May Not Be a Good Online Defense " caught my eye: well, couldn't agree more!:-) It turns out that the article is from the NY Times, and it's short & sweet hence there's no need for me to summarize it here: Mr. Stross manages to capture the problem pretty effectively, also thanks to some nice quotes from Kim .     P.S.: I know, I know. I still owe you

Last year we announced an experiment at Sun: in order to gather more information about the operational characteristics of "user-centric" identity technologies, we decided to roll out an OpenID provider for Sun employees. This OpenID provider was intended to be used by Sun employees for personal usage at various OpenID sites that have been popping up at some places. This experiment involved various parts of the company, including field people, products folks, the security team, and our Chief Privacy

Well, it's almost one month since I wrote the last " useful " posts : you would not believe how incredibly busy I am on stuff I can't talk about just yet (but soon, very soon). In this quick update I am excited to report that I am going to speak at TechEd New Zealand & TechEd Australia ! As strange as it may sound, the 114 flights I've boarded since I moved to Corp (October 2005) never took me under the equatorial line; furthermore, it's since first grade that I'm told how cool it is that New

We recently updated our website and some links have broken as a result. Here's the place you should go to get the latest version of Password Minder: http://mercury.pluralsight.com/tools.aspx Sorry for any inconvenience!

I moderated a session at the recent SSO Summit titled “What is OAuth and WS-Trust, and where does it fit into your web services SSO initiatives“. “User-centric identity” is past-its-prime and “Identity as a Service‘ has already been beaten enough. And hence I was glad to get a chance to dig into the services/API use cases [...]