6 years of blogging

Usually (2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008) in April I “celebrate” the anniversary of my blog creation with an anthology of posts from the last year.

This time it just slipped through the cracks, April was an insanely busy month, hence i am doing it late and in reduced form; since i am doing it mainly for respecting a tradition, i am sure you won’t mind :)

Some musings

• Claim types: a coarse taxonomy
• Validation, Authentication, Authorization: mangling tokens for your dark purposes
• Active, Passive and Passive-Aggressive
• How often should you ask for a token?
• New Issue of the Architecture Journal: Article on "Claims and Identity, On-Premise and Cloud Solutions"
• Delegation, or traversing multilayer architectures
• On-premises, hosting & cloud: a metaphor for understanding how they differ
• Roles? Those are claiiiiiims!
• One does not simply walk into Mordor, or Home Realm Discovery for the Internet

Geneva samples

• An Identity Provider and its STS: preliminary considerations
• An Identity Provider and its STS: writing a custom STS with the October Beta of the Geneva Framework
• Fun With Federation 1: ASP.NET, Geneva Framework & FedUtil.exe
• Fun with Federation 2: using Geneva Server for adding a Relying Party relationship to the Identity Provider
• Create a Minimal ASP.NET Membership Website (that will come in useful in another post)
• Enhance your ASP.NET Membership-based website by adding Identity Provider capabilities

Cloud samples

• A visual tour of the .NET Access Control service via Azure Services Management Console
• A visual tour of the .NET Access Control service, part 2: fun with scopes and issuers

Announcements & comms

• Announcing the Beta release of “Zermatt” Developer Identity Framework
• Microsoft's New Identity Landscape
• Claims and Cloud: Pardon our Dust

Note: I was compiling this list from the auditorium at EIC while they were announcing the European Identity Awards, and Geneva won one!!! I believe it was for the Geneva Framework, Best innovation in identity Management category… once they’ll post it to the website I’ll report on the details. That’s awesome :)