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EIC 2010: How complex is the enterprise?
by Christian Scholz on May 11, 2010
Another thing which became clear once more at the European Identity Conference was, how complex enterprise IT actually is. And this is of course something provoking me and I am wondering if it really needs to be the case. There (…)
EIC 2010: An outsider’s view
by Christian Scholz on May 10, 2010
I stumbled into the European Identity Conference 2010 actually only by accident, more being a web developer than an enterprise IT guy (although having to do with it in terms of connecting e.g. Plone to an LDAP server in our (…)
EIC 2010: On national electronic ID cards, Interoperability and Trust Frameworks
by Christian Scholz on May 9, 2010
One topic of the European Identity Conference last week in Munich was definitely how to identify citizens on the net. How to do that in general is a problem being worked on for some years and it’s still not solved. (…)
User Managed Access – a workshop and a prototype
by Christian Scholz on May 5, 2010
This week I am at the European Identity Conference (EIC) in Munich mostly for the workshop on “User Managed Access” (UMA) and for two panels I am on (Social Network Data Portability tomorrow at 2pm and one that has “Post (…)
RPX for Plone: Login to your Plone site with your Twitter, Google or Facebook account!
by Christian Scholz on April 14, 2010
As I am an advocate for Data Portability and all of it starts at the login, I am happy to announce “plonesocial.auth.rpx”, an authentication plugin for Plone which allows you to login to your Plone site with a variety of (…)
Plone Cathedral Sprint Report and interview
by Christian Scholz on March 31, 2010
On March 15-19 the Plone Cathedral Sprint happened at the GFU Cyrus AG in Cologne, Germany. Focus was on fixing outstanding bugs in Plone 4.0 (soon to be released) and to start work on Plone 4.1. About 25 sprinters have (…)
What’s new in OAuth2.0?
by Christian Scholz on March 30, 2010
Another IETF meeting is over and the OAuth crowd has met again! Lots of talk has been going on in the OAuth realm partly under the name of WRAP. Now what has WRAP to do with OAuth and what will (…)
#zensursula reloaded: 10 reasons why access blocking does not help
by Christian Scholz on March 29, 2010
Update #1, 17:00: Thanks to @bendrath for informing me that the linked proposal is not the official one. Also added reason #11 thanks to Thorsten in the comments. Today Cecilia Malmström, European Commissioner for Home Affairs, revealed her plans on fighting (…)
All recordings from NoSQL Live Boston now online!
by Christian Scholz on March 15, 2010
Today I finished uploading all recording I made from the NoSQL Live conference in Boston. They are now all located at COM.lounge TV (which I also reactivated for this). This also means that they are available in podcast form. Here (…)
The growing appeal of online collaboration. On Google Wave and EtherPad
by Christian Scholz on December 6, 2009
If you look around on the web these days, it really seems that online collaboration is taking off. It started small with the likes of e.g. Google Docs which only has limited and not real-time collaboration facilities. But only recently (…)