In deze podcast spreekt Maurice de Beijer met Michaël Hompus over de software die Michaël met enkele collega's geschreven hebben voor de Serious Request actie van 3FM en het Nederlands Rode Kruis. Bij deze 6 daagse acties is meer dan 12 miljoen euro opgehaald via donaties en verzoeknummers op de website. Tijdens deze podcast, en zijn TechDays sessie in maart, vertelt Michaël hoe ze dit precies voor elkaar gekregen hebben. Links: Blog: http://blog.hompus.nl/ Serious Request: http://seriousrequest...

Yesterday Windows Azure experienced a worldwide disruption in many services due to an expired PKI certificate for Windows Azure storage. Mary Jo Foley’s article Windows Azure storage issue: Expired HTTPS certificate possibly at fault provides the best coverage of the event as it unfolded. You can also take a look at a few threads on… Continue reading → Blog Post by: Wade

Recently we have been working on something new at DevelopMentor for online teaching. I still really like teaching in the classroom and I think that this is a great environment to learn new material. But it is also a very expensive and not very scalable way of learning. It typically means being away from the office for a week at a time and that can be hard on the business and on your colleagues.   And while the classroom is a great place to learn that will do you little good if you can’t go there...

Let’s start of with a clarification: As of today, federating Office 365 (Azure AD) with a Custom STS is NOT supported by Microsoft.  Today the only supported STSs are AD FS 2.0, Shibboleth 2, Optimal IDM Federation Services and PingFederate 6.10. With that cleared, Office 365 STS supports both WS-Federation & SAML protocols for user [...] Blog Post by: zamd

Sitefinity 5.x introduced claims based security & Single-Sign-On features based on a simple HTTP redirect based token issuance protocol which I’m going to call ‘Sitefinity sign-in protocol’ in my posts. Version 5.x has also standardized on using Simple Web Token (SWT) as the default token format for user authentication and SSO needs. Sitefinity 5.x comes [...] Blog Post by: zamd