Sean’s DeXiderata
Sean McGrath reminds us of this ancient work from 2002; I think you’ll find it still has relevance and even poignancy today. Go you at once and read of the whole thing. […] Read more
View ArticlePig meets sky, rubber meets road
Clemens and Gerry comment on a remarkable event: Microsoft shipping sample code…in Java…using a runtime stack the likes of which you have never seen before in a Microsoft product. It’ll be four years...
View ArticleThoughts on identity services? Submit a paper!
It’s that time again — we’re just a month away from the deadline for the ACM Workshop on Digital Identity Management call for papers. The theme, as always for this series, is timely: “Services and...
View ArticleAnother cake of type “Birthday”
Cool! And this one’s even got I18N support… (Thanks to Paul Bryan for the tip! If you’re curious, my old one is here.) […] Read more
View ArticleNamespace nausea and other XML maladies
Eric Wilde and Bob Glushko have produced a wonderful compendium of problems people have with XML due to overblown expectations or plain old misunderstandings: XML Fever. It’s funny because it’s true!...
View ArticleA (g)newbie at Gnomedex
Somehow I’d been missing out on the phenomenon of the Gnomedex tech-enthusiast conference, even though its location in recent years coincides perfectly with my new(ish) Northwest residency. (Hey, I...
View ArticleSchooool’s … on – for – summer
The XML Summer School in Oxford is back! John Chelsom has gotten it started again, and this time it will be held September 20-25 in St. Edmund Hall. Lauren Wood is serving most excellently as Course...
View ArticleMaking change
So last week I made a big transition, joining Andrew Nash‘s identity services team at PayPal. (And I kind of told Twitter about it before I told y’all. Sorry about that; it’s the nature of the...
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Exercise: it’s torture, I tell you
Sometimes you have wonder about “conventional wisdom” (and what makes it different from “actual wisdom”). Until about 40 or so years ago, it was conventional wisdom that you shouldn’t exercise to lose...
View ArticleNew: Modern authorization systems and XACML
Over on the Forrester blogs, I take a look at XACML, advocating that it needs to refactor heavily to meet mobile/cloud authorization policy needs. UMA as a potential enterprise “access management 2.0″...
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