Didn't I write that I wanted to blog more this year? It's June, you see what came out of that.
First things, first; I'm flying to Orlando tomorrow for TechEd. Looking back at what my conference schedule looked like up until 2 years ago, it's hard to believe that this is my first (!) scheduled conference talk this year. I actually do miss the life on the road a little bit. The compensation for...
I wonder whether whoever is in charge of architecture at Twitter has already figured out that they aren't running a website but an Internet-scale, one-way, pub/sub messaging relay.
Earlier today I hopefully gave a somewhat reasonable, simple answer to the question "What is a Claim?" Let's try the same with "Token":
In the WS-* security world, "Token" is really just a another name the security geniuses decided to use for "Handy package for all sorts of security stuff". The most popular type of token is the SAML (just say "samel") token. If the ladies and gentlemen designing and writing security platform infrastructure and frameworks are...
If you ask any search engine "What is a Claim?" and you mean the sort of claim used in the WS-* security space, you'll likely find an answer somewhere, but that answer is just as likely buried in a sea of complex terminology that is only really comprehensible if you have already wrapped your head around the details of the WS-* security model. I would have thought that by now there would be a simple and not...
I highly recommend reading Vittorio's most excellent and illuminating blog entry for how to use the new features we've added to BizTalk Identity Services for allowing you to use 3rd Party Managed Cards.