October 2007 Blog Posts
I’m making a flying appearance at TechEd this year talking about Infomation Card security token services and their implementation; for those interested the session is Windows CardSpace Case Study 1: Identity Providers – Experian (SBP05-IS) 8 November; 10:45 - 12:00 Room 131 I’ll be joining Steve Plank and Jim Lound from Experian on stage. The abstract for the session is as follows; Experian is in the Identity Business in a big way. Banks, Building Societies, Financial Institutions and governments use their identity validation services to validate the identities of potential customers. Experian will be one...
Yup, that’s what we do :) Technorati tags: Communities
Friday and Saturday saw the annual UK MVP Open Day. Aside from the excellent presentations (and the sulk at being accused of heckling by Colin) a thought and conversation I’d be having with a wee blonde lass all week was proven. I had been receiving a large amount of grief for not being on the social "networking" site facebook and a bunch of people threatened to create an account in my name on there; so I ended up making a pre-emptive strike. This nicely illustrates the problem of identity versus persona. My argument (for Maz) is that we don’t have...
Whilst I was rejigging my presentation for the VBUG conference last week I give a quick nod to the different in language Information Cards and SAML use when talking about the information they transport. Normally identity systems and the applications that use them, WebSphere, WebLogic, PKI et al. talk in terms of asserting identity. SAML and Information Cards talk in terms of claims. There’s a subtle difference; assert : insist on one’s rights, declare one’s views forcefullyclaim : to assert or maintain as a fact: She claimed that he was telling the truth.dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1). Retrieved October 25,...
The ACE Team at MS have thrown out a beta of XSSDetect, a static analysis tool plugin for VS2005 to, err, detect XSS vulnerabilities in your code. Interesting stuff; it’s a shame it doesn’t detect as you code or add errors into your compile time; which would better enforce good practice just as FXCop does; indeed the tool is part of a bigger internal suite; XSSDetect is a stripped down version of our enterprise ready Code Analysis Tool for .NET code bases (CAT.NET for short). CAT.NET adds such features as VSTF integration, centralized reporting using web services, customized rulesets...
I give it 48 hours before every place is gone, so go, register, you know it makes sense. The agenda is also up; I’m up against Rich and Dave with Swaggily Fortunes. So, no attendees in my bit then! (It appears I was wrong; all places went in under 24 hours. So, no pressure then on us presenters. None at all. *cry*) Technorati tags: ddd, developerday
Be honest, those banks of Wrox Press books you have how often do you look at them? There’s a problem with most technical books, the nuggets of information you need right now are in the middle of some chapter somewhere and the words you’re looking for aren’t in the index. A while back Phil, Jon, Jeff et al blogged about writing a book and in Phil’s great book giveaway I snagged a copy (I’m not feeling that guilty about shipping; I did send him some "cute" baby stuff when Phil 2.0 arrived). When the parcel arrived I pulled it...
It appears I started a trend. Once I setup the nxtgen twitter account I sent an email to an email list I’m subscribed to which contains a bunch of other community "leaders" (I’m not so much a leader, but a community whore according to Sarah). In the hours that have followed we have VBUG, DDD and Scottish Devs all appearing on Twitter. So what do you need to do to be this trendy and web 2.0? A twitter account, an RSS feed for your user group and TwitterFeed (oh and you need an OpenID account to log in to TwitterFeed;...
Ah web 2.0 marketing; I’ve just setup a twitter account for nxtgen; it will pull in and tweet events, news and podcasts. Unfortunately this means you may see things like the ReadyBoost song for which I can only apologise. I would exhort you to follow the nxtgen account; but as Dave and Rich spread the nxtgen tentacles far and wide I’m worried about the use of "follow"; as one day soon I expect to be presented with a minion uniform to wear and I’ll be forced to stand behind Dave whilst he webcasts (using Office Live Meeting of course) demanding...
I received the email last night; I’m speaking at DDD again, this time on WCF in a presentation entitled Web Services; we don’t need no stinking web server Remoting is dead. Long live WCF. This session aims to cover the creation of web services with WCF, inside and outside of IIS, including one way and two way services, as well as contracts, faults, authentication, authorisation and security. I think I’ll try to sneak something CardSpace related in there *grin* As an added bonus I’m also sitting on the recruitment round table discussion sharing my personal thoughts on where candidates...
Outlook controls my life. It gets my emails. It holds my address book, calendar and syncs them to my phone. It pulls down my RSS feeds via Newsgator and now it even pulls in my Twitter messages using OutTwit. (it’s surprising how addictive Twitter became as more and more people I knew started using it. Blogging for those with short attention spans) Yes, OutTwit is an early alpha release; it has limitations (you can’t reply to a message easily yet, every tweet has that status message of "This message has not been sent", you can’t get Outlook to popup...
The call for presentations is closed and now you get to decide what you want to see. So head over to the DDD site and vote for 10 sessions from yet another packed agenda. As ever vote for me, or the kitten gets it. Technorati tags: ddd, developer day
I attended sqlbits on Saturday (and was press ganged into helping out as a room monitor and grok talk organiser). So I donned the obligatory conference polo shirt and mingled with the crowd. After a while some random strange man approached me offering Channel9 guys. Ok, so it wasn’t sweeties but I ignored the advice my mother gave me as a child and followed him back to his car .... And returned with an arm full of Channel9 guys, which were thrown out into the lunch crowd later in the day .... The conference was good; learnt more...
This month we have Ian Cooper, founder of the London .NET User Group coming out to the home counties to talk about MonoRail, comparing and contrasting with Ruby on Rails. We also have a new nugget volunteer, Steven Wilmot talking on how to read in C# (I guess bribing with numerous pairs of socks is finally working!) What:All Aboard The MonorailIs it a bird? Is it a plane? No it’s Ian Cooper trying to stay on the Rails. Arriving by normal railway probably, Ian Cooper, London .NET User Group Leader, Speaker and long standing member of the UK Community...
Is rather sad I got goosebumps when I read the email? Woohoo, a MSDN subscription :) [update: 08:45] anon-ms-employee says (08:43):Is that all you could be bothered to write btw?barry says (08:44):haha, didn’t know what else to putanon-ms-employee says (08:44):We give you 25,000 of software, a free trip and time in the company store...barry says (08:44):Yea yeaanon-ms-employee says (08:44):And you give us - er. 10 words... So yes, you get MSDN or TechNet (if you don’t want physical DVDs you can have both!), a week in Redmond at the MVP conference (now to get work to pay for the...