If you are watching the Card-space, I'm sure you didn't miss it: the Otto Store smart client application, announced during TechEd Europe and VSLive, is now up and running. You can download and install it from there . This news is relevant to this blog in different ways. The Otto store is the first application available on the internet to use managed cards. It is the first application to secure web services call via CardSpace. And among the customers I have worked with in the last year, Otto is the first one to release a CardSpace based application. Hoooray! It was a pleasure to work with everybody on the project, I can't tell you the satisfaction of seeing all this beautifully coming together. I could fill the entire post just with juicy annedoctes, like the time when me and Jaime (the great guy who dealt with the WPF parts here in Corp) flew in Germany for the first ADS: we took an early cab from downtown Munich to the offices, and it was the very first ride of the very first work day of our extremely young driver. A 20 mins drive became a 45 mins tour in the foggy & frozen countryside around Munich, with the driver increasily panicking: the GPS was banned by his company policy, so I could not pull out my beloved Universal and give him a hand. He was very brave and professional! In the end we did it to the meeting, though with some delay: looking at he app today, anyway, looks like that delay didn't really matter that much. But you're not interested in annedoctes, are you:
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