I found the samples very clear, and uncluttered with a lot of "sample decoration"

Dictator Dorrans is guiding "the rough beast, its hour come round at last..."

Hotmail figured out I wasn't sending mail from a server allowed to handle the identityblog domain

Understanding the logistics of SSL is unrelated to understanding how identity claims can be represented and exchanged...

Now anyone who can do basic web programming can set up CardSpace on their site in minutes - without the pain and expense of installing a certificate

In the simplest case, you can just look at the identity payload as an XML blob posted to a web site

How to tweak a web page so it lets you log in with an information card

Here are the claims you can request when dealing with CardSpace self-issued cards

Zend Framework is the open source PHP framework for developing Web applications

Microsoft's Open Specification Promise documentation set has been augmented with new material essential for smooth multi-vendor (or multi-project) interoperability.