In a recent school shooting in Germany, a troubled and bullied kid went on a killing spree, wounding 37 and killing at least himself. He was apparently disillusioned by an economic situation that would have sent him straight from the…
What a week! After the ground breaking Java OSS announcements this week, there was another one this Tuesday: Sun’s OpenSSO project releases the WS-Federation code that allows users to federate OpenSSO seamlessly with ADFS and WCF. Congratulations to the team!…
After some extended time without any new entries, I am back. Besides being insanely busy with all kinds of work for the last couple of weeks, I am going through a somewhat stressful personal time: a close family member is…
Today I sent a mail to OSIS-General on using OpenSSO for the Identity System/Selector that we are trying to build: We at Sun would like to offer/suggest OpenSSO (http://opensso.dev.java.net/) as a open source project within the OSISframework. I believe OSIS…
My paper on persistent AJaX is to be published in the Research Disclosure Journal. Please find it here. There are no new additions, just a formal publication. AJaX Web 2.0
Here is my mail to Mike Jones on the OSP: Hello Mike – First of all this is most excellent news – and I am looking forward toseeing those protocols being implemented by a large number of marketparticipants. However, I…
Here you can find the OSIS response to the OSP. I think that this reposonse is – particularly in the context of OSIS and related efforts – quite appropriate. The obvious issues with the covenant, as also pointed out by…
… and what is this RALLY thing, anyways? RALLY is an architecture and a set of specs form Microsoft that describes how to create devices that will easily configure themselves into a Microsoft centric network, with a heavy focus on…
I just installed Windows Vista RC1 (Build 5600) and had some serious problems getting Windows Update to work from behind my proxy server. The error I got was 8024402C, along with the recommendation to try the Automatic Proxy configuration. Needless…
Just like some time earlier this year, Build 5600 (RC1) of the Windows Vista OS has difficulaties with VMWare. Fortunately, life is somewhat easier this time around: If your problem is that Vista seems to freeze during installation at the…