I'll be doing the presentation next Monday

Published Fri, Jan 26 2007 0:39 | William

If you're going to be in Atlanta next week, stop by the .NET User Group Presentation .

As you probably know already, I tend toward non mainstream technologies.  This presentation is going to be on Windows Cardspace , Windows Communication Foundation and Windows Presentation Foundation. 

  • I've been working diligently as a tech reviewer for   Scott Klein's Professional WCF Programming so I'm pretty well versed there.  I've learned a lot about WCF from Scott so hopefully I can make a good showing there.
  • My fascination with Cardspace borders on an obsession so I'm quite confident this part should be cool.
  • I  have 0 UI Skills so while I know my way around WPF, well, my game is pretty weak.

I was a pretty big fan of Remoting, love Web Services and loved WSE (heck, I was one of the 4 people in the world that actually cared about WSE 3.0) so WCF is just - well, da bomb. Huge move forward here.

As far as Cardspace, I can only hope it's going to get adopted and go mainstream.  Self issuing cards are a cool idea and more than anything, will make things more convenient.  There's got to be some streamlined distribution of Managed cards, but once that's addressed, it's got to be huge.  I'm having some server problems right now, but hopefully they'll be addressed tonight.  Ryan and I are putting together some web services and I hope to have Cardspace up and running with one of them.

Everybody else in the world is blogging about WPF so I don't have much to add there. 

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Comments

# Jason S. Burton said on January 26, 2007 8:50 AM:

Sounds cool, Bill, but who is going to explain CardSpace to my parents?  They still struggle with double-clicking.  How are they going to "self-issue" an InfoCard for themselves?

--jason

# Bill said on January 26, 2007 12:18 PM:

No one is going to be able to do that - and therein in the core problem with it.  It's going to take a lot of time to get to that point.  If the market moves that direction significantly enough, then user examples and word of mouth will cause a lot of progress to be made, but there are still a lot of folks that aren't big internet users and that's going to be a big hurdle to jump through.

Also, a scheme like this is going to probably be one of the biggest hacker targets out there.  To stop phishing, you need certificates. If we had certificates in place now and people that understood how to verify them, well, there wouldn't be phishing attacks. No way someone who falls for a phishing attack is going to grasp a concept like this.  I think there's going to be a big target and there will be ways to work around it through Social Engineering.  Humans are always the weakest link in Security, and always will be.

# Jason S. Burton said on January 31, 2007 9:29 AM:

Hey, Bill.  FYI - here's a link on detecting CardSpace support in Firefox.

http://www.fearthecowboy.com/2006/12/detecting-cardspace-support-including.html

--jason

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