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CardSpace & WCF

Don Box, Steve Maine, and Richard Turner are presenting on identity with Card Space and also speaking on WCF. I’ll brb as we move forward in the preso.

Ok…Don is crazy. :-) He is absolutely hilarious and a pretty solid presenter. To give an idea about his energy and approach (which is, in my opinion, is “I am me…except it or not.”), one guy (the creator of Qcodo, a PHP framework) answered one of Don’s questions (regarding what MSFT can do better) by saying “Give Windows away for free.” Don’s response was “F*** YOU!” LMBO. :-) It was truly hilarious. He explained why (basically, he has kids and he gets paid from Windows sales; lol) but it shows his preso style. He’s just open and speaks his mind. Great guy, it seems. :-) Update He just apologized (again, everyone laughed) and said it’d be great if it was free but, in my words, the money is needed.

Ok…let’s move to what the preso is about.

CardSpace
Ok…I’ve seen CardSpace before but never got the technical details needed to understand how to utilize it with a site. Now I have a bit of a better idea. Here is the skinny on setting up CardSpace with a site, as explained by Steve Maine.

  1. You setup an object request in your page (speaking asp.net here). You specify the token, etc using a schema from xmlsoap.org.
  2. When IE sees this request the CardSpace app opens up for you to select a card. The cards non-related to the request are greyed out and related one’s are in color.
  3. Select a card and click Send.
  4. The token, for that card, is sent to the site and the site now has your authentication info. You didn’t have to type 1 letter and you’re ready to go on that site.

It is pretty simple for a site to take care of it. On Kim Cameron’s Blog there is code available to utilize this in PHP. He is working on other implementations in java, python, etc and is open to code so send it to him and he’ll blog it. According to Richard, you’ll get 50,000 hits in the first minutes (less than an hour) due to how heavily it is hit.

There is an entirely different side of this talk about why it is useful that I cannot even come close to speaking eloquently about. More information about CardSpace can be found here. Once you see it and have it explained to you…it makes sense.

WCF
The most I can say here is read more on Windows Communication Foundation here. lol. I’m not that nitty gritty to speak eloquently about all of this stuff. :-) It seems pretty forward-moving but I need to read/see more on it before I can even come close to blogging about this.

Posted by John C. Bland II on September 22, 2006 12:02 PM |

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