Vittorio Bertocci
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Brief video interview on TechEd Live New Zealand
Greetings from the far New Zealand :-) this is a great place, I wish I'd have more time to look...
Author: Vittorio Bertocci - MSFT Date: 09/01/2008
Interview with Mark Russinovich on EDGE
Mark Russinovich had a nice chat with David; check it out here. I really appreciate the practice of...
Author: Vittorio Bertocci - MSFT Date: 08/28/2008
New Issue of the Architecture Journal: Article on "Claims and Identity, On-Premise and Cloud Solutions"
The latest issue of the Architecture Journal is available for download here (I am breaking the news...
Author: Vittorio Bertocci - MSFT Date: 08/20/2008
Setting up a basic CardSpace RP ASP.NET website... using Zermatt
With few weeks of delay I finally forced in my schedule the conclusion of my little getting started...
Author: Vittorio Bertocci - MSFT Date: 08/18/2008
The New York Times on passwords, OpenID, Information Cards Foundation & Kim
I was dividing my attention between the Scrubs special on TV & Digg on my PC, when an article...
Author: Vittorio Bertocci - MSFT Date: 08/11/2008
Zermatt & Cloud @ TechEd New Zealand/Australia
Well, it's almost one month since I wrote the last "useful" posts: you would not believe how...
Author: Vittorio Bertocci - MSFT Date: 08/06/2008
How did you get started in software development?
[I suggest my usual readers to skip this post altogether, you won't find anything useful here :-)]...
Author: Vittorio Bertocci - MSFT Date: 07/24/2008
Issuing smartcard backed managed cards... using Zermatt
We are back! I hope you had fun with the STS tutorial I posted yesterday night; here we move a step...
Author: Vittorio Bertocci - MSFT Date: 07/17/2008
Setting up a quick & dirty STS which supports smartcard backed managed cards... using Zermatt
Just back from vacation. The tan barely started to fade, and here I am already playing with the new...
Author: Vittorio Bertocci - MSFT Date: 07/17/2008
John Fontana on Zermatt
I am sure you already saw Kim's post about John Fontana's interview with Stuart, appeared on Network...
Author: Vittorio Bertocci - MSFT Date: 07/11/2008
Announcing the Beta release of “Zermatt” Developer Identity Framework
Ahh, I’ve been looking forward for this post for a looong time. We just made available for download...
Author: Vittorio Bertocci - MSFT Date: 07/09/2008
New home for Windows CardSpace on microsoft.com
One year ago we had a brief wall-to-wall exchange with Keith about the need of having consumer (as...
Author: Vittorio Bertocci - MSFT Date: 07/01/2008
How often should you ask for a token?
On the Seattle-Paris flight. I've just posted the piece about...
Author: Vittorio Bertocci - MSFT Date: 07/01/2008
Information Card Foundation
No, Harry Seldon has nothing to do with it :-) The establishment of the Information Card Foundation...
Author: Vittorio Bertocci - MSFT Date: 06/24/2008
Live Mesh: ...because I can
I am sure you already fell in love with Live Mesh: I know I did. Today I did a little experiment,...
Author: Vittorio Bertocci - MSFT Date: 06/06/2008
Active, Passive and Passive-Aggressive
Ahh, terminology: joy and sorrow of our kind. There are some expressions that are very catchy and we...
Author: Vittorio Bertocci - MSFT Date: 06/05/2008
Hide svc extension from your REST services with the URLrewrite module for IIS7
I am now focusing exclusively on identity & services, true, but certain news about former...
Author: Vittorio Bertocci - MSFT Date: 06/01/2008
All your tokens are belong to us?
Kim just posted a great piece about "an account this week describing an attack on the use of...
Author: Vittorio Bertocci - MSFT Date: 05/30/2008
The fedlet as an R-STS
I am horribly behind schedule with my blog, I still have to post a wrapup of IIW but didn't find the...
Author: Vittorio Bertocci - MSFT Date: 05/21/2008
Claims propagation: Kirchhoff or maxflow?
In the last week or so Paul Madsen made at least a couple of posts with strong visual components:...
Author: Vittorio Bertocci - MSFT Date: 05/07/2008
Blogging software misfired...
...or I clicked "Publish" instead of "Save Draft". Anyway, the net result is that a post was...
Author: Vittorio Bertocci - MSFT Date: 05/05/2008
Claim types: a coarse taxonomy
In short. I make some considerations about what kind of info ends up in a claim, and the things we...
Author: Vittorio Bertocci - MSFT Date: 05/05/2008
5 years of blogging
2:35AM. I landed few hours ago in Seattle, back from a successful week in Kuala Lumpur &...
Author: Vittorio Bertocci - MSFT Date: 04/27/2008
The PDF of Chapter 2 is on MSDN
The Cardspace landing page on MSDN has now a reference (link at the very top) to a PDF copy of the...
Author: Vittorio Bertocci - MSFT Date: 04/12/2008
April the 22nd: session at the IASA IT Architect Regional Conference in Kuala Lumpur
In a couple of weeks I'll be in Kuala Lumpur, at the IASA's IT Architect Regional Forum Conference;...
Author: Vittorio Bertocci - MSFT Date: 04/11/2008
Podcast on "Understanding Windows CardSpace" at SearchWinDevelopment.com
Few weeks ago Caleb and I had a nice phone interview with Jack Vaughan, during which we gave a short...
Author: Vittorio Bertocci - MSFT Date: 04/10/2008
Passwords on PostIt... on the floor of the RSA expo :-)
Well, well, well. I was strolling trough the vendor booths at the RSA exposition (which, by the way,...
Author: Vittorio Bertocci - MSFT Date: 04/09/2008
(Re)Focusing
I am delighted to announce a slight change in my role: from now on I'll focus on identity...
Author: Vittorio Bertocci - MSFT Date: 04/02/2008
Voting for the Italian government election via mail
It's that time again. Few months ago the Italian government fell, and as a good citizen I am called...
Author: Vittorio Bertocci - MSFT Date: 03/31/2008
Using FederatedIdentity.net managed cards with Biztalk Services SDK
Last Friday I announced that the new version of the Biztalk Services SDK introduced support for...
Author: Vittorio Bertocci - MSFT Date: 03/31/2008
New version of the Biztalk Services SDK available, now with support for managed cards
Almost one year ago I briefly mentioned the Biztalk Service SDK, here and here. A new version has...
Author: Vittorio Bertocci - MSFT Date: 03/28/2008
Perspectives.on10.net: podcast interview with Jon Udell on identity & "Understanding Windows CardSpace"
Jon Udell recently launched a new interesting format on the website perspectives.on10.net....
Author: Vittorio Bertocci - MSFT Date: 03/24/2008
RSA, on my way
This year I am finally managing to attend RSA. At last, I'll be able to put a face on the URIs of...
Author: Vittorio Bertocci - MSFT Date: 03/15/2008
Privacy turmoils
Privacy, privacy. Interesting word: strange enough, I don't think we have a decent correspondent in...
Author: Vittorio Bertocci - MSFT Date: 03/11/2008
WCF & REST at MIX08: The Tale of MySpace APIs
[Update: we received notice that not all of you were able to download the video. We fixed the issue...
Author: Vittorio Bertocci - MSFT Date: 03/10/2008
The Tao of Authentication (Part II)
(continues from Part I) You can consider this post and the fine grained analysis we made in Part I...
Author: Vittorio Bertocci - MSFT Date: 03/10/2008
CardSpace & surveillance
Well, don't get fooled. I'm not going to make any big philosophical considerations about technology...
Author: Vittorio Bertocci - MSFT Date: 03/07/2008