Mark Russinovich had a nice chat with David; check it out here . I really appreciate the practice of annotating the video with the times at which certain topics are touched, that allows me to thumb through things like I'm used to do with text: HUGE time saver! Ryan was to kind to suggest me to check out the view of the bookshelf on frame at 40.6s, shown below: if you look on the right, between "Windows with C/C++" and the old-style MSDN Universal container, you'll spot a certain well known

It's since April that I don't write about the book (at the time we released the entire Chapter 2 on MSDN ). Last week I received notice that 2 new reviews were published: one is from the Denver Visual Studio User Group , the other is on Paul Van Brenk's blog . Both reviews are extremely nice, for which we are very grateful; I especially like the fact that in both cases the reviewers perceived our intention to deal with the problem from an holistic point of view, regardless of our affiliation with

The Cardspace landing page on MSDN has now a reference (link at the very top) to a PDF copy of the chapter 2 of " Understanding Windows CardSpace ", which features the series layout for side comments & perspective boxes (mentioned here ). Thanks to everybody who helped making this happen. Enjoy! :-)

Few weeks ago Caleb and I had a nice phone interview with Jack Vaughan, during which we gave a short intro to CardSpace and mentioned the book ; the result is a 6 mins podcast (available here ). Thanks Jack & SearchWinDevelopment !

Jon Udell recently launched a new interesting format on the website perspectives.on10.net. Perspectives is a series of in-depth conversations with passionate innovators. Most work for Microsoft; some work elsewhere; all are advancing the state of the art in areas as diverse as robotics, digital identity, e-science, and social software. Information technology is the common thread, and Perspectives appeals to the technically-minded, but the show also aims to tell stories in ways that make sense to

As mentioned in a post last November , Kim himself made us the huge honor of writing the foreword of our book "Understanding Windows CardSpace" . Today I had the same thrill as, while opening his blog , I've seen he dedicated an entire post to it ! You know, it's a strange feeling to go through the post and, like with the foreword, once again realize that Kim Cameron took the time to read what we wrote about a subject that owes so much to him :-) The part I personally prefer is the following: Above

Progress , my friends, is a wonderful thing :-)

Few days ago I've been notified that the 2nd chapter of our book "Understanding Windows CardSpace" is now available for free online , on the pages of Code Project (takes some time to load from my connection, don't give up). That's a very big chapter, for architects and business decision makers, focused on showing how the identity laws and the identity metasystem are addressing many of the challenges presented in chapter 1. It also shows the role played by WS-Trust & friends . There's not much

Very impressive! I am sure that this great ranking is also thanks to the readers of this blog... so THANKS :-) Amazon stats are very volatile (I'll make a more detailed post about it), but it's still great. I think this is the best rank we got since publication. I am so glad that the topic elicits all this attention. I can't imagine what will happen once we'll move to the next phase ;-)

[synopsis for the English readers: a financial newspaper in Italy published an article about CardSpace ; I make some considerations about it] Cari lettori italiani, e' parecchio che non scrivo un post nella lingua natia... come e' parecchio che non trovo il tempo di pescare qualche collega italico e immortalarlo per Italia9 ; provero' a fare qualcosa a fine febbraio, ma non prometto nulla :-) Comunque. Oggi sono passato dall'ufficio di Kim Cameron , per portargli una copia del Libro (autografata