During TechEd 2008, I participated in a Panel discussion on Web Services Interoperability. Microsoft just put up the tape on their TechNet Library site. They also have a WMV video feed, and a MP3 audio-only feed.
While Germany and Europe in general have some of the strictest rules regarding the use and storage of personally identifiable information, the last few months have seen rather extreme data security breaches. Today, the German media is reporting about a…
Starting today, I will try to review some of the more interesting gadgets that I have been playing with. The first installment will be on the Windows Mobile phone that I won last week at TechEd. After attending a Mobile…
Just back from Orlando, here are some takeaways from this year’s TechEd 2008 for IT-pros: Interoperability with SOAP based web services is progressing: I was part of a panel on interoperability, moderated by Chris Haddad. It was a fairly diverse…
A small note: if you are using Lightning for Thunderbird and you install or upgrade to Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy), you might run into an issue of you calendars disappearing (probably only when using the build from the Lightning website): Error:…
I attended a meeting of the Hartford, CT, chapter of OWASP yesterday – James McGovern was so nice of inviting me there. OWASP is a group focusing on web application security, with a heavy emphasis on “application” (in contrast to…
It took quite a while, but by now it is out. Please welcome the Windows CardSpace Information Card extensions for OpenSSO: https://opensso.dev.java.net/source/browse/opensso/extensions/authnicip/ When I started working on this last spring, I was not even hoping to see this released in…
This is seriously groundbreaking: Clemens (also here) just finished an example of a Metro client accessing Microsoft’s BizTalk Services (aka Internet Service Bus). “Well”, you might ask, “what is so groundbreaking about this? Isn’t this what this whole web services…
Pat, Ben, and Kim have been talking about the use of password tokens for use with Windows CardSpace. Pat’s detailed description of how this could work is quite useful, and can be extended in some interesting ways: 1. Create a…
I had a SunBlade 1000 (UltraSPARC III based) system available, so I started on a Friday afternoon project of getting Ubuntu installed on this box. Here is what I did to get a running system, including a Gnome desktop: 1.…