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Well, it's almost one month since I wrote the last " useful " posts : you would not believe how incredibly busy I am on stuff I can't talk about just yet (but soon, very soon). In this quick update I am excited to report that I am going to speak at TechEd New Zealand & TechEd Australia ! As strange as it may sound, the 114 flights I've boarded since I moved to Corp (October 2005) never took me under the equatorial line; furthermore, it's since first grade that I'm told how cool it is that New Zealand is at the exact antipodes of Italy, has roughly a boot shape as well, etc... that's the farthest place from home I can travel to without leaving the planet :-) I am going to deliver 2 sessions , both in NZ and in AU: Identity & Cloud Services (Architecture track, level 300) The shift towards cloud computing is one of the major trends in today’s IT industry. As resources and assets are increasingly hosted off-premise, traditional strategies for access control and identity management are proving incapable of handling distributed scenarios and cross-boundary communication. This presentation briefly outlines how architectures relying on claims-based identity management, security tokens and open standards can address cloud computing scenarios with the same ease with which they can handle traditional ones. The identity capabilities of Biztalk Services will be featured as a concrete example of an application of the new paradigm. “Zermatt” Developer Framework: Putting Authentication Read More...
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Next week is Catalyst time. It will be a nice time to raise my head a bit from all the super interesting (but sometime exhausting) stuff we're brewing here in Redmond, which is leaving me little (zero?) time for blogging. It's always very nice to have a chance to spend time with other identirati, there's nothing better than that for preventing groupthink. Last field trip, the IIW , was truly great in that respect: discussions with *** Hardt , Drummond , Paul , Ryan , Axel , Andy and Pam , stimulating sessions from Bob & Pat ... and many others. In fact, those events are great for getting back in touch with the reality of the market. When you work with super early adopters and you spend your lunches discussing with colleagues fine subtleties of claims and token ecologies, it's easy to forget that out there there are still shadow accounts & passwords on post-its. That's what I realized during this IIW : probably for many people a lot of the stuff I write here comes across as abstract as the gliders in the game of Life . Just so you know, I am planning to be MUCH more concrete in the next entries.. that is, if I find the time to blog ;-) after the conference I'm off to Italy, where I hope to relax for few days in my home town gaining back the 4 Kg I've lost specifically for being able to stuff myself during vacation :-) If you are coming to Catalyst and you want to chat, you can find me at the Microsoft Hospitality Suite on Wednesday evening in the classic blue navy event Read More...
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Before presenting in a country I never visited I always try to read about the local culture and understand the basic do's and don'ts. Besides being IMHO a basic form of respect for your hosts, this helps you avoiding VERY embarrassing situations that you'd never ever figure out on your own. If you ever followed one of my presentations, you know that my "Identity Metasystem in a nutshell" pitch is a slide describing the msdn faceless guy having his age checked in order to get some wine. This example served me well in many events, across many countries: US, Italy, Spain, Japan, Iceland, Germany, Netherlands are the places I can conjure up but I'm sure there's more. A couple of days ago I was reading about one of the countries I am going to present in next week, and realized that a substantial percentage of the population profess a religion that may not find an example about alcohol consumption appropriate. I struggled a bit to find an example that would express the concept with the same directness, and picked the brain of few colleagues in the process (thanks Su !). The alternatives were good (movie rating system, voting) but I was not satisfied, I wanted something "disposable". Finally I got the right suggestion (thanks Aaron!): cigarettes. Perfect! It is a disposable good, hence bought in a very agile way, yet it requires age verification; and, as far as I know, it should not entail cultural problems. it may not be super popular in the US, but there I will stick with wine :-). Read More...
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Well, I really really enjoyed going to RSA. As I foresaw, more than the event itself I really appreciated the chance of meeting with very smart people: the Concordia and the OSIS events were truly exceptional in this sense. Axel captured some of that spirit here . Just to mention a few notable encounters: I spent some quality time with Pat Patterson , mainly discussing the book. I really really appreciated his honesty and his feedback, he truly read the book with attention and his remarks were always on point: we'll make sure to incorporate them in the next revision of the book, and in fact some of the points he rose are so important that I may blog about them for clarifying. I just loved the chance of seeing things through his eyes, discussing mainly with colleagues carries the risk of falling in groupthink and I feel this was very beneficial for me. Unfortunately we didn't have more occasions of sharing our views, but I hope there will be other chances soon. Thanks Pat! I finally met the famous Pamela Dingle :-) Pam is great, her passion on those matters unparalleled. She gave a great presentation on the IdM, despite it was in the earliest slot the day after the Ping party (great party BTW, thanks Andre'). We had various discussions during the RSA week. For what I can tell she has a clear predisposition to the interface & interactive aspect, while I concentrate more on the protocol angle: that makes us very good conversation buddies ;) Vijay from FuGen showed me a great Read More...
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On the 23rd I'll be in Singapore, practically my third home, and will present at the Singapore's Regional Architect Forum (the famous RAF). There is something in that country that charmed me already during my first visit in '89, and every time I have half a chance I try to go visit. Meeting my good pal Linda is certainly one of the things I like of going to Singapore: you would no believe the staggering amount of great work she gets done, all without ever losing her smile :-) A close second would be the levels of the customers & the industry in general there. Singapore's IT is often ahead of the curve, which makes it a perfect audience for very new ideas and approaches. That's why I am looking forward to present on S+S, cloud services and how the new paradigms are already affecting the way in which we deal with identity management. I will also give a chalktalk about the internet service bus , I hope to elicit some deep discussion and explore with Singapore's architects the implications of architecting solutions with tools like the ISB (without ever forgetting the identity aspect, of course). Also in this case Gianpaolo will present on S+S. I am sure he will provide a lot of food for thought, I can't think of anybody more qualified for explaining the topic. besides, his sessions are always fun :-) see you there! Read More...
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In a couple of weeks I'll be in Kuala Lumpur, at the IASA's IT Architect Regional Forum Conference ; I will present on identity in the context of S+S and cloud services, which happens to be the topic that intrigues me the most nowadays. I am really excited for the session, but even more so for the chance of meeting fellow architects and discuss how these new ideas apply to their scenarios. Also: I never went to Kuala Lumpur, and I am very very curious about everything. I'll be there with my good friend Gianpaolo , who will present (surprise surprise) on S+S. I had an exclusive preview of his session, and it's *great*. Don't miss it. Looking forward to be there and spend some time with him and Aaron ! Read More...
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After a remarkably quiet flight I landed in S.Francisco: the city of the Golden Gate , the Italian consulate and the theater of this year's RSA conference . I just unloaded on the bed all the swag from the conference bag (very original BTW, love the Turing theme ), and I was going through my agenda so far: believe it or not, Caleb and I actually have a book signing session (for the listeners tuning in just now, this is the book ). I already felt it a bit surreal, but when I saw our names adjacent to Malcom Gladwell ... well, I am smiling like an idiot since then. I know I know, there's more or less the same merit as being adjacent in the phonebook... but I'll smile nonetheless! ;-) Note: if you want to meet you'll also find us at the OSIS Interop demonstrations and at the Concordia events Read More...
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This year I am finally managing to attend RSA . At last, I'll be able to put a face on the URIs of the various feed I follow (more or less Mike 's blogroll) and exchange ideas in realtime meatspace. Looking forward! I almost hope that the sheer length of the last Tao of Authentication installment scared ppl away, or I'll have to do some arguing ;-) See you there! Something tells me you won't have problems spotting me... Read More...
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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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Next week I am going to MIX ! If you are there as well and you want to take the chance to sync up on any of the topics you read about on this blog, feel free to stop me in the hallways: I am very easy to spot! (long hair, gesticulates a lot, strong Italian accent). If you want to be sure to find me, come to the MySpace session or to any session from Justin or Ryan. Also, as in the best Mix tradition there will be the Open Space (hmm, actually it is new this year :-) ): an unconference area with whiteboards, projectors... if you want to see something specific, like a demo of a scenario you like or a deepen dissertation on an (identity) topic that interests you, feel free to drop me a line before the end of the week: I'll do my best to prep up. I am still in doubt between bringing the full fledged X61 or the Fujitsu u810 UMPC, and if you don't ask about anything specific before I leave I just might bring the latter :-) Read More...
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I look forward to the parallel tracks on managing identity and social networking - and sharing ideas with people working on identity in Europe Read More...
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"Dale and I both used the same self-issued Information Card (that I created on the BrainShare show floor :-) ) to log into a Bandit relying party site" Read More...
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