Friday, March 07, 2008 - Posts

• Federated Identity Through the Eyes of the Deployer

  As I just reported over at The Aquarium , Eve and Marina recently published Federated Identity Through the Eyes of the Deployer - what it is, why you might want it and what questions to ask as you architect a federated identity system. As I mentioned on The Aquarium , Eve was a key player in defining XML, SAML and more. What you might not know is that Eve is also a talented musician, shining even when accompanied by those less gifted in the art , such as here, at IIW2006b : Here be the lyrics . Read More... Posted Friday, March 07, 2008 7:29 PM from Superpatterns | 1 Comments Filed under: Identity, federation, opensso, evemaler

• Bjornarnnyeng

  Names matter - even for modular shelving and desk lamps. a study conducted at University of Copenhagen. which revealed that while other Nordic countries - Sweden, Norway and Finland – lend their words and place names to prestige (Ikea) products, for example the Stockholm sofa, or the Lillehammer bed, those named after Danish towns are less than glamorous. I've decided that before I write my angry letter to Ikea management protesting at these egregious insults to my Danish homeland, I should cool Read More... Posted Friday, March 07, 2008 5:52 PM from ConnectID | 1 Comments

• Sociable, and yet smart

  How smart can they be? They barely even blog. Duhhhh. Tags: social network , hyenas Read More... Posted Friday, March 07, 2008 12:53 PM from ConnectID | 1 Comments

• Excel, Robots and Spiders

  If you like Excel like Dan [ LINK ] and you like Trigonometry and you like Robotics, then you'll get a kick out of this thing. Oh yeah, if you like Spiders as well as those other things you'll really like Excel powered Robotic Spider. [ LINK ] It's too bad they didn't add in a Baby as they could've had an Excel Powered Robotic Spider Baby. Read More... Posted Friday, March 07, 2008 12:43 PM from Francis Shanahan[.com] | 1 Comments

• openid with smartcard support

  Today I learned about TrustBearer (thanks Berend). TrustBearer combines openid authentication with smartcard authentication. Setting this up is very easy. 1) sign up for an openid at http://openid.trustbearer.com/ 2) pair your cert with the new account You have to install a Firefox extension that does the certificate stuff. 3) logged in and ready to go 4) try it at a openid consumer 5) present your openid and smartcard 6) nice Still what I like most in this use case is that the certificate is on Read More... Posted Friday, March 07, 2008 11:42 AM from ignisvulpis | 1 Comments Filed under: OpenID, authentication, smartcard, nfc, multifactor

• VRM Use case

  I'm creating a personal "Never Buy Again List" (NBAL) First entry <nbal:Item> <Name>HP Pavilion Laptop</Name> <URL>http://h71036.www7.hp.com/hho/cache/403455-0-0-225-121.html</URL> <Reasons>: <Reason id="aa">Piece of Shite</Reason> <ReasonRef idref="aa"/> <Reasons> </nbal:Item> HP's bots can now trawl this and save the company future postage costs and hassle. Both sides win. Tags: VRM Read More... Posted Friday, March 07, 2008 10:35 AM from ConnectID | 1 Comments

• Enabling hierarchical nant builds

  In a recent post , I talked about my experience enabling continuous integration for the internal builds here at Pluralsight. I recently worked with Craig to restructure our nant build. As part of that, I wanted to ensure that I could run the build from anywhere in the source tree. We use a typical hierarchical build where each project has a build script that knows how to compile, test, deploy, etc. based on the specified target. Then at the top of the tree, there's a build script that runs all the Read More... Posted Friday, March 07, 2008 12:49 AM from Security Briefs | 1 Comments