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Oliver and Gary fortunately decided to continue with their “Sod This” podcast show. That’s good – because I always found this very entertaining. The “comeback” show is about security and identity – awesome ;)

Any more dodgy puns? I am happy to announce that my good friend Oliver Sturm has joined thinktecture. Oliver is a brilliant computer geek in general and a language wonk in particular – good company to hang out in bars … Continue reading →

Our very own Jörg Neumann had this cooking for quite a while. tt.DOM is a library that lets you add features like change tracking, undo, redo, views, transactions and n-tier support to arbitrary types (or lists of types). This makes … Continue reading →

Looking forward to this week’s nice little security conference organized by my old friends at ERNW. Federated Identity – Opportunities and RisksThe world is moving towards a federated identity model. Public facing websites like Google or Facebook utilize technologies like … Continue reading →

So – zurück und (wichtiger) erholt von der BASTA. Muss sagen – es war mal wieder sehr nett – großes Lob an Veranstalter und Teilnehmer. Hat Spaß gemacht! Am meisten war ich über das große Interesse an WIF überrascht. Ein … Continue reading →

I am by far no (unit) testing expert. But I always found it odd that I sometimes have to re-structure code to make it explicitly unit-testable. One typical example is code that relies on some sort of context – e.g. … Continue reading →

The annual Troopers conference takes place in my home town – Heidelberg – this year. nice ;) If you wanna know more about all things security wrt e.g. Blackberry, SSL/TLS, outsourcing, rootkits, botnets, SAP, cloud computing, you name it. This … Continue reading →

Over the last years I have worked with several incarnations of what is now called the Windows Identity Foundation (WIF). Throughout that time I continuously built a little helper library that made common tasks easier to accomplish. Now that WIF … Continue reading →

I guess you already heard the term “claims based authorization” several times by now. But how exactly does the authorization work? The typical pattern is that you iterate through the claims associated with the user and search for a special … Continue reading →

Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 ship with IIS 7.5. While migrating the StarterSTS, I made an interesting observation. I remember vaguely I read about that somewhere – but basically I got this error message: Cannot open database “aspnetdb” … Continue reading →