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Preparing to be wrong
Eugenio’s Next Adventure
The Symposium is now behind us and I’m very pleased at how it went. Overall feedback was very...
Date: 01/31/2013
patterns & practices Symposium 2013
I’m happy to announce the next p&p Symposium here in Redmond. Details below. ...
Date: 10/25/2012
Claims Identity Guide–Hands On Labs
Training content based on our guides has been as popular as the content itself. You can now download...
Date: 06/13/2011
Intuit Data Services + Windows Azure + Identity
This week, we completed a small PoC for brabant court, a customer that is building a Windows Azure...
Date: 04/07/2011
Authentication in WP7 client with REST Services–Part II
In the previous post I covered the “semi-passive” way for authentication between a Windows Phone 7...
Date: 04/02/2011
Authentication in WP7 client with REST Services–Part I
In the last drop, we included a sample that demonstrates how to secure a REST web service with ACS,...
Date: 03/24/2011
Drop #2 of Claims Identity Guide on CodePlex
Second drop of samples and draft chapters is now available on CodePlex. Highlights: All 3 samples...
Date: 03/22/2011
SaaSGrid and Identity
Apprenda’s SaaSGrid is now “claims enabled”! This is fantastic news. Any SG customer can now...
Date: 03/21/2011
Web Single Sign Out–Part II
Following up on previous post, there were 2 questions: Where do these green checks images...
Date: 02/24/2011
Single Sign Out–WebSSO
While reviewing all the existing samples we’ve noticed that our implementation of Single Sign Out...
Date: 02/16/2011
ACS as a Federation Provider – Claims transformation
To work properly, a-Order needs a number of claims to be supplied: User name Organization Role The...
Date: 02/14/2011
ACS as a Federation Provider–Home Realm Discovery Part 2
In my previous post, I had a question for all you: What would happen if Adatum’s FP didn’t supply...
Date: 02/10/2011
ACS as a Federation Provider - A little bit deeper into the sample (Home Realm Discovery)
Updates: fixed typos. Clarified how Home Realm Discovery works in this example. In the...
Date: 02/09/2011
Access Control Service as a Federation Provider
The first scenario we are working is using ACS as a federation provider. This is an extension of the...
Date: 02/08/2011
Our next project – Claims based Identity and Access Control
Not surprisingly maybe, security in general, and authentication & authorization in particular,...
Date: 02/04/2011
MVC–Unity–challenge answer
The answer (or better yet, my answer): The proof: This is leveraging the use of a name...
Date: 01/27/2011
Windows Azure Guides in Japanese
I can’t read a single character (except maybe one), but it looks beautiful:...
Date: 01/27/2011
Unity and MVC–Resolving types challenge
Imagine you have a situation like this: 2 MVC controllers (A and B) have a dependency on SvcA. SvcA...
Date: 01/26/2011
A year’s balance–next project
A little bit late for a year balance since the year has already started, or so I’m told. Anyway, as...
Date: 01/26/2011
Tailspin Surveys Mobile - An early screenshot
Our dev team is fearlessly building the first versions Tailspin Surveys Mobile. Here’s an early...
Date: 08/05/2010
Tailspin Surveys–Windows Phone 7 edition–A guide to the Guide
As adopted in all our recent guides, here’s a quick map for the entire “Windows Phone 7...
Date: 08/03/2010
Tailspin Surveys–Windows Phone 7– UI Mockups
Here’re some initial sketches of how Tailspin would look like and the navigation patterns we want to...
Date: 08/03/2010
Tailspin Surveys–Windows Phone 7 edition
Here’s a high level overview of the major components we are planning for Talspin Surveys. A few...
Date: 08/02/2010
Claims Identity Guide samples updated
I’ve just uploaded to CodePlex updated samples for the Claims based Identity Guide. This have all...
Date: 08/02/2010
What’s next? Tailspin goes mobile…
Now that the Windows Azure Architecture Guide – Part 2 is “done” (Done = content is complete and...
Date: 07/15/2010
Happy birthday USA!
Date: 07/04/2010
Identity Federation Interoperability – WIF + ADFS + CA SiteMinder
Update: I just found this comprehensive guide for setting up federation with CA SiteMinder....
Date: 07/01/2010
Identity Federation Interoperability – WIF + ADFS + IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager
How it works (Full size diagram here) End to end demo (Video here) Technorati Tags:...
Date: 06/30/2010
Identity Federation Interoperability – WIF + ADFS + Sun’s OpenSSO
As I announced some time ago, we’ve been working on a few labs that demonstrate interoperability...
Date: 06/30/2010
Windows Azure Architecture Guide – Part 2 – Saving surveys in Tailspin
As I wrote in my previous post, different sites in TailSpin have different scalability needs. The...
Date: 06/09/2010
Windows Azure Architecture Guide – Part 2 – Tenant & Public site (and some notes on geo-location)
As you might recall from my the introduction post, Tailspin has essentially 3 sites: the ISV (#1) ,...
Date: 06/08/2010
Windows Azure Architecture Guide – Part 2 – Managing sessions
Session management is an important consideration for applications deployed to Windows Azure. In...
Date: 06/05/2010
Windows Azure Architecture Guide – Part 1 – Live!
While we wait for the book to be published, we packaged the entire guide to be available online. We...
Date: 06/01/2010
Happy birthday Argentina!
Today Argentina celebrates 200 years of the revolution that led to independence. Happy birthday from...
Date: 05/25/2010
Windows Azure Guidance – Yet another way of writing records to store and dealing with failures
These series of posts dealt with various aspects of dealing with failures while saving information...
Date: 05/24/2010
Windows Azure Architecture Guide – Part 1 – Release Candidate Documents updated
I just uploaded new versions of the docs that make up our guide. No major changes, but some...
Date: 05/24/2010
Windows Azure Guidance – The “Get”, “Delete” pattern for reading messages from queues
Fabio asked me on twitter “why there’re no dequeue, peek and enqueue on Windows Azure Queues?” ...
Date: 05/11/2010
Windows Azure Guidance – Failure recovery – Part III (Small tweak, great benefits)
In the previous post, my question was about a small change in the code that would yield a big...
Date: 05/04/2010
Windows Azure Guidance – Failure recovery and data consistency – Part II
I had some great answers on my previous post question, like Simone’s. Some where closer than others,...
Date: 05/02/2010
Windows Azure Guidance – Part I in a single picture
What’s covered in this first part of the Windows Azure Architecture Guide? Here’s a picture inspired...
Date: 04/29/2010
Windows Azure Guidance - Additional notes on failure recovery on Windows Azure
Things will eventually fail in your application and you need to be prepared. So most components...
Date: 04/29/2010
Continuation Tokens in Windows Azure Tables – Back and Previous paging
Scott has published the results of his “Continuation Token” spike, which is a critical aspect of...
Date: 04/28/2010
Clarification on the last drop of Windows Azure Architecture Guide
It seems some people were somewhat confused with the guide downloads. A picture is worth 1000...
Date: 04/28/2010
Windows Azure Guidance – New Code & Doc drop on CodePlex
We are almost content complete for our first Windows Azure Architecture Guide (the most probable...
Date: 04/26/2010
Windows Azure Guidance – Background Processing III (creating files for another system)
Last week Scott walked me through his current design for the “Integration Service” in our sample....
Date: 04/18/2010
Windows Azure Guidance – Background processing II – One worker, two workers, …
Question for you: if your application has 2 “background” task to perform, do you implement this as 2...
Date: 04/14/2010
Windows Azure Guidance – Using Shared Key Signatures for images in a-Expense
As described before, a-Expense static content (mainly the scanned images uploaded by users) is...
Date: 04/13/2010
Windows Azure Guidance - Background processing I
If you recall from my original article on a-Expense, there were 2 background processes: Scans...
Date: 04/09/2010