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Yesterday we finally had the session about the making of MySpace APIs . As you'll be able to see from the recording , it was a *great* session: extremely interesting and very informative. It had only one issue: Paul Walker , the architect behind the MySpace API efforts and the key person we worked with on the WCF components of the project, couldn't make it to the conference. Paul has a deep, deep understanding of the REST principles and was the one who envisioned how WCF could have been used and extended for meeting MySpace architectural needs. If you'll ever have a chance to attend a session from him or read anything he writes on this topic, I strongly recommend it. The session was opened by Aaron Sloman, who gave the business background. Back to the very first edition of Mix, MySpace demonstrated some Vista gadgets: the reaction it elicited from the audience was the request of opening the corresponding APIs. Well, just a couple of years later here we are, developer.myspace.com is up and running! Aaron then moved to give the list of requirements for the API of a juggernaut like MySpace, and hinted to the fact that the REST architectural principles and WCF were the solution they found fit for the task after much testing. The main technical delivery came from Haider Sabri , who was involved in the implementation of the project for the very beginning. I won't go too much on the details, since there is the recording of the session publicly available ; anyway, just for wetting your Read More...
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Few months ago I made a little tour of Europe , and (among various places I visited) I went to spent some quality time in Amsterdam. Here I had the pleasure of spending some time with Albert van den Broek , CGO of Figlo : Albert is an excellent host, and during a nice dinner at a typical Dutch restaurant he explained to me the vision behind one of their new products. I am not very deep in financial considerations, so I will probably explain this in the wrong way (for which I apologize in advance): in any case, you can always go to their website and take a look for yourself. The point is that personal finance is an incredibly important aspect of our lives, and yet a surprising amount of people (including me) knows nearly nothing about how it works (reminds me of the fact that I've learned the function of carbohydrates and proteins only when I was already at college. crazy!). This is bad, because without a sense of how you choices today affect your situation tomorrow it is very hard to get to your objectives. Their point is, it doesn't have to be like that! They believe that presenting the situation with the right tool, such as a streamlined process backed by the right UI metaphor, anybody can take informed decisions and make actual steps toward his wishes (early retirement, college funds, similar stuff). They also have a very catchy name for the procedure, HaWaNeDo (Have, Want, Need, Do), which always helps in end user products. The day after I met with part of their board and Read More...
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In short: few hours ago there was the launch of the a pilot for the web portal my health.sg , a platform for allowing individuals to manage information about health, fitness, nutrition and so on. For the time being, the pilot will be limited to a restricted number of users. Linda was there and sent me the nice picture above. The project is the result of a partnership between the Changi General Hospital (CGH), Microsoft and NCS Group . This is a fantastic app with great features, and yet another proof of the power of Siverlight. From where I stand, however, the coolest thing about this project is that the users authenticate with the application using a managed information card, backed by a hard token ( Singapore's DORIS token ). Ah, and that's also the fact that it accounts for a good percentage of the Singapore immigration stamps I got on my passport in the last year an a half/2 years (besides this and others I can't talk about yet ;-)). The Singapore team that made this happen (among which: my dear friend Linda Chong & the excellent Lee Theng Chia from Microsoft Singapore, the superstar Lee Lup Yuen from NCS) is absolutely outstanding. As for the post I've made at the conclusion of the Otto project , I can't go in any details of the architecture here (beyond the obvious facts that you can figure out on your own). I will just walk you through the user experience, obfuscating the personal identifiable details. Also, take into account that you can't perform the walkthrough yourself Read More...
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It's that time of the year again: the end of June marks the end of the fiscal year, and for us it's time to reflect on what we've done in the past 12 months. Vast majority of the things I've done are internal-only or with high profile customers that can't be mentioned publicly until their PR departments give the green light, hence I won't discuss those here; however I think it's interesting to share with you a summary of some of the things that I worked on, just to give you a measure of how .NET3.0 (especially CardSpace in my case) is relevant. It should give you an hint of how much impact you can have working in my group, so you'll be able to put announcements like this in the right perspective! I also hope that this will boost your confidence that the content of our upcoming book is based on very solid real world experience, earned by working daily with our key accounts in the identity space: the PG intent is tempered by immersing it in requirements from customer actually shipping solutions based on this thing that we call CardSpace. Which, by the way, is the reason for which I'm still at the computer at this time... big stuff is going on in cardspaceland! Projects, Briefings, Deep Dives This year I've worked with or briefed more than 45 enterprise companies on CardSpace/WCF/WF, good part of it at the very top of the fortune100 and global100 (ah, btw: just subscribed to Fortune. I was buying it all the times anyway). Sometimes it was just a 2 hours personalized QA, some other Read More...
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[Edit: Added Silverlight SxS con WPF/E] In short: this is a tutorial on invoking Cardspace from a Sliverlight [WPF/E] control and how to use Silverlight [WPF/E] for showing data from a token . So easy that a long haired architect can do it :-) Silverlight [WPF/E] is Microsoft's technology for developing rich internet applications, but it is also going to be CROSS PLATFORM ( the CTP it is already available for Mac ). In light of the awesome work of the Bandit guys on an identity selector on other platforms , I believe it is important to start thinking about how to use this new RIA technology together with identity. In recent times I'm hearing more and more people interested in Rich Internet Applications, or RIA. That usually brings the discussion pretty quickly on Silverlight [WPF/E], our cross platform presentation technology that leverages a subset of XAML for doing cool things inside your browser. I am often asked how to plug CardSpace into it, so I thought to put toghether a post that shows how to do that. As you know it's few years that I am a server guy, so I don't spend too much time on colorful stuff: however I also like to cross pollinate different technologies, and I especially love to do it with CardSpace (I did it with WPF , with WF , with WCF and WPF ). Yesterday night I downloaded the WPF/E SDK , the WPF/E runtime for Windows and blocked 1 hour on the calendar of my excellent colleague Laurence Moroney , probably the best mentor I could get for ramping up super fast Read More...
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In short: this is a tutorial on invoking Cardspace from a WPF/E control and how to use WPF/E for showing data from a token . So easy that a long haired architect can do it :-) WPF/E is Microsoft's technology for developing rich internet applications, but it is also going to be CROSS PLATFORM ( the CTP it is already available for Mac ). In light of the awesome work of the Bandit guys on an identity selector on other platforms , I believe it is important to start thinking about how to use this new RIA technology together with identity. In recent times I'm hearing more and more people interested in Rich Internet Applications, or RIA. That usually brings the discussion pretty quickly on WPF/E, our cross platform presentation technology that leverages a subset of XAML for doing cool things inside your browser. I am often asked how to plug CardSpace into it, so I thought to put toghether a post that shows how to do that. As you know it's few years that I am a server guy, so I don't spend too much time on colorful stuff: however I also like to cross pollinate different technologies, and I especially love to do it with CardSpace (I did it with WPF , with WF , with WCF and WPF ). Yesterday night I downloaded the WPF/E SDK , the WPF/E runtime for Windows and blocked 1 hour on the calendar of my excellent colleague Laurence Moroney , probably the best mentor I could get for ramping up super fast on this technology. Thank you man!!!! My objective was to use that hour for coming out with a Read More...
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