November 2008 Blog Posts
Well I didn't manage to get socks stuck on the projector this time around. The slide deck and demos are available for download. Every DDD session this year has been filmed; so if you missed it watch the DDD site for the video. Technorati Tags: developer day,ddd,ddd7
This week is Get Safe Online week; a campaign founded by the Government, HSBC, SOCA and Microsoft. The campaign site, http://www.getsafeonline.org/ is aimed at the "mum" user, people who don't know about the ins and outs of security; the people who are at risk the most. This year they're focusing on identity fraud; apparently research and survey information will be available. As the week progresses more information will appear on the site, written in non-technical language and presented in a way that everyday Internet users can understand. So if you don't want to try to explain phishing...
Last night my twitter feed started filling up with messages about Twitterank; in fact there are so many messages that it's currently in the top 10 trends for the day on tweetscans.com. Looking at the people in my feed who used it; a few MVPs, a bunch of Microsoft staffers and a couple of other technical folks it looked interested. Except, well, I'm paranoid . Twitterank is much like a google PageRank for your twitter accounts. Cool, just what we need, more ways to feel inadequate on the internet. The interesting part of it is...
Well jiggle ma sporran 'n warm up the sheepsies Morag; DDD Scotland returns on the 2nd May 2009. We'll all be gaing to Gaslgie then; but didnae Connor say "There can be only one?" Aye, n its free as weel. Ay can keep me wedge fer me buckie. (Of course now I shouldn't submit a topic or two because I am going to get eggs thrown at me. Except eggs are expensive, so maybe not .... errr, how do I turn comments off on a blog post? Oh no ...) Technorati Tags: DDD,DDD Scotland,Developer Day,McDDD,DDS,JockDD,McDD
Warning opinion follows :) A while back I blogged on the difference between self issued and managed information cards; which lead to an interesting comment from Aditya; I was wondering if you could further explain why a self-issued information card is not suitable for higher-risk transactions such as logging into a bank account. From what I gather, the advantage of a managed card would be that it could assert certain claims about a person (like the hair length example you mentioned). However, I'm not sure why managed cards are more secure just for logging in....
Pretty much everyone who knows me knows I want stronger authentication on the internet, but I'm set against physical identity cards, and centralised government databases. I've even opted out of the UK's National Health Service central database (partly because I don't trust the NHS to protect the data and keep it private and partly because the data flows through a private company). My concerns on UK identity cards are numerous; but no2id expresses them far better than I can. If by some miracle Labour make it through the next election in power I will be swapping my UK passport for...
Yesterday I presented to a bunch of hungover VBug members; giving a gentle introduction to Windows Communication Foundation (if only all WCF applications were that easy). Thank you to all who attended and especially those who asked questions. Someone did ask about client and server communication; I'd point you (and I'm afraid I didn't catch your name - apologies) to my blog post on WCF callbacks. I've uploaded the slide deck and the (very simple) demonstration projects. Technorati Tags: VBug,WCF