Entries from April 2008 ↓

An article I co-wrote with Neil Readshaw has gone live on the IBM developerWorks site.

Using SAML security tokens with Microsoft Web Services Enhancements
A standards-based approach enabled by Tivoli Federated Identity Manager

Microsoft® Web Services Enhancements (WSE) is a framework for developing secure, interoperable Web services for the Microsoft .NET platform. WSE supports standard security token types such as Username, Kerberos and X.509 certificate tokens. One widely used security token type not supported by WSE is the Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML). This article will demonstrate an architecture and implementation capable of integrating WSE and SAML using Tivoli® Federated Identity Manager (TFIM).

Check it out here.

Less than 24 hours after Google App Engine went live, an application has been written that allows you to use your Google Account to log into any site via OpenID. Uncreatively called OpenID Provider, it also presents you with a nice log of recent OpenID requests.

This is a fantastic example of how opening your infrastructure can provide benefit to the entire community.

Six months later and Mr McNamara from Australian Property Monitors is at it again.  In a short piece titled “Rents in Australian cities will soar in the next four years” he once again singles out Gen Y as the cause of rising rents.

APM general manager Michael McNamara said rental supply was tight as a drum.

“As Gen Y leaves home and strong migration patterns take effect, our construction sector struggles to keep up the supply of well-located, affordable property to accommodate a growing population of renters,” he said.

Of course people are moving out of home, but to somehow come to the conclusion that because someone born post-1980 rather than pre-1980 will somehow impact the rental market more is simply ridiculous. There’s not some backlog of youngsters living at home that are all suddenly going to move out at once!

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