The Freak Parade - Latest Comments

Re: Just add "Crazy" to your adjectives, and be done with it.

nstults — Mon, 04 May 2009 12:46:39 -0000

That's good news, I look forward to reading your posts. Congratulations on the kid cranking. People say things like "I cranked out a few kids" as if it was just another thing, when really we should be using language like "I plunged into a terrifying and beautiful portal of insanity in which human life emerged from nothing whatsoever and my perception of reality and depth of feeling were permanently and dramatically expanded beyond anything words can describe" Of course, that only works for the first kid, the cranking metaphor works well enough for subsequent children.

Re: Just add "Crazy" to your adjectives, and be done with it.

Mike Duncan — Mon, 04 May 2009 07:03:42 -0000

Thanks so much for the mention, super-flattering of you to say such kind things. Recently I've switched jobs and cranked out some kids, but as of today am back on the blogging bandwagon again!

Re: SimpleServiceBus on CodePlex (a fork of nServiceBus)

nstults — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 12:11:25 -0000

I keep a loose eye on NSB to see if parts of what I've done can be reused as NSB components, but in reality while this project started out life as a fork, it really ended up being a nearly total rewrite. I'm not sure there is any nServiceBus code left, although the overall architecture remains vaguely the same, so a "merge" is certainly no longer possible. Even if it were it is extraordinarily unlikely Udi would accept my changes, our styles are just too different.

Re: SimpleServiceBus on CodePlex (a fork of nServiceBus)

Colin Jack — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 05:30:51 -0000

Have you thought about merging your changes in with what Udi has done now 1.9 is out the door?

Re: About The Freak Parade

nstults — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 02:00:13 -0000

I'm flattered, but I'm having the time of my life where I'm at :) I've heard great things about Neuron though, I hope to take it for a spin someday.

Re: About The Freak Parade

Pete Klein — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 20:36:12 -0000

I bet you get asked this all the time, but are you interested in product development opportunities? I ask because we are always looking for strong developers like yourself who clearly have a deep understanding of SOA and the technologies under the SOA umbrella. I am naturally interested in your work on SimpleServiceBus, but would like to discuss more if you are so inclined.

Please let me know if you'd like to talk.

Thank you,

Pete Klein
pete.klein@neudesic.com

Re: Sense/Net 6.0 CMS/Enterprise Portal Beta 1 Released

cmsnewsman — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 07:10:50 -0000

Sensenet is a pretty decent system, I've examined it a few times and found it quite good.

Re: Flowing Identity from a Client to a Service when using RESTful WCF Part 1 - The Problem

Graham — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 20:40:40 -0000

Your link at the bottom actually points to this same post, when it should point to http://www.thefreakparade.com/2008/09/flowing-i... :)

Re: Rule Based Access Control using an Expression Evaluator

Ashwani — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 00:32:40 -0000

Hi,
This is really a nice concept and we are currently using the similar approach with Zermatt Claims based Identity framework.
However; I see some some articles on .Net which says XACML is the best way of implementing Authorization; I don't have much experience in XACML; but could you provide some thoughts on this?

Thanks,
Ashwani

Re: Identity’s new Identity - Part 3, The Technology

Richers Blog — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 09:09:24 -0000

nowadays technology is in everywhere, nice topics

Re: ESB’s for the Microsoft (.NET) Platform

sandra — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 15:12:24 -0000

ESB.NET

Re: Content Management Systems (CMS) for the .NET Platform

nstults — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 19:54:23 -0000

ASP.NET MVC :)

Re: Content Management Systems (CMS) for the .NET Platform

adz — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 17:41:09 -0000

So which CMS did you settle on in the end?

Re: I don’t know but I’ve been told, ETL is gettin’ mighty old. BAM! BAM! EDA! I want my data right away!

nstults — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 15:01:02 -0000

I'll definitely check that out, thank you for the pointer

Re: I don’t know but I’ve been told, ETL is gettin’ mighty old. BAM! BAM! EDA! I want my data right away!

Hamilton — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 09:09:46 -0000

If you're looking for a product with both BAM capability (for real-time) AND traditional BI capability (for historical analysis and reporting of relational data), take a look at Altosoft. They're also a newer vendor and are a lot less expensive than the big guys. They have a free version available for download as well, although it won't give you real-time/events. We are starting to use it right now in a pilot and it makes dashboard development really easy. I haven't tried their reporting out yet, however.

Re: Flowing Identity from a Client to a Service when using RESTful WCF Part 2 - A Solution

nstults — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:19:21 -0000

I think you may be reading into the Identity Metasystem too specifically - in my understanding, client or server is not the question, simply the relative, identity related roles of whoever is participating in an identity transaction. I see no reason a smart client (such as a Win Forms app) couldn't play the role of a Relying Party. You can't really compare a web browser front end to a smart client front end as if they were counterparts - a smart client may, for instance, require the users claims to appropriately render its UI (i.e. hide or show certain features based on access rules), whereas a web app will rely on the "server" to fill this role as the server generates the user interface. I can't imagine client side code in a browser being able to examine claims, or wanting to, but it is not at all unreasonable for a smart client to do so. In other scenarios a web app may actually be acting as a "client", delegating to a distributed service layer for its business logic and concerning itself only with rendering a UI, and in that scenario the web app may also want access to a users claims. If the front and and back end are just tiers of a single application, I don't think this is a problem. I could be misunderstanding some very important point here, though, that has been known to happen.

Re: Flowing Identity from a Client to a Service when using RESTful WCF Part 2 - A Solution

JoeG — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:23:44 -0000

Thanks for the clarification of the "Subject" concept; a lot of this stuff is still gelling in my brain. I guess where I'm still a little fuzzy on what you're trying to achieve comes from the phrase, "On the client side...a representation of the user along with her claims can be found at Thread.CurrentPrincipal." I'm not so sure this is the case with the Identity Metasystem model I have been reading about as of late. As I understand Zermatt, IClaimsPrincipal and IClaimsIdentity are concepts that don't apply to the client-side of things (thinking of the client as a web browser in the ASP.NET world, and a Windows Form in the rich client world).

Re: Flowing Identity from a Client to a Service when using RESTful WCF Part 2 - A Solution

nstults — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 20:12:15 -0000

In my example there isn't actually an Identity Provider involved - the service consumer (the Windows Forms client) is acting as the IP, which is where your confusion comes from. In a real scenario the service consumer would likely facilitate the retrieval of an encrypted token for the logged in user from a real IP and then use the technique I described to flow that token to the service. In my simplified example, however, the service consumer is constructing a dummy token because this sample isn't concerned with that part of the Identity relationship. And I don't think you would call any piece of software the "Subject" - the Subject, in my limited understanding, is the conceptual entity being authenticated, i.e. a user. Usually the RP and the application the user is logging into are the same, so the application itself is the Relying Party (RP). In my sample, logically, the windows forms application is just the user interface to a distributed application, and the whole thing could be considered the Relying Party. The role of the Identity Provider is somewhat obscured by the fact that the UI (service consumer) is pretending to be the IP.

Re: Flowing Identity from a Client to a Service when using RESTful WCF Part 2 - A Solution

JoeG — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 17:23:46 -0000

I'm a bit confused (nothing new for me ;). I thought that in the "Identity Triad", the subject (in this case, your Windows Forms client) wasn't supposed to have access to the claims contained in the token. The IP creates the claims, then hands them to the subject in the form of an encrypted secure token. They are then passed to the RP in the encrypted form. I don't believe that Zermatt will facilitate handling of the claims by the subject via IClaimsIdentity, only by the RP.

Re: ESB’s for the Microsoft (.NET) Platform

sandra — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 18:38:30 -0000

Check out ESB.NET
www.codeplex.com/KeystrokeEsbNet

Re: To (ASP.NET)MVC or not to MVC (or, ASP.NET MVC Hyperlink Acupuncture)

Dan Hounshell — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 23:03:51 -0000

Thanks for the mention about the aspdotnetmvc.com site. I'm the person who built and maintains the site and I agree that there is way too much information in the main feed, primarily because of all the stuff picked up in the Buzz section (pulling from forums.asp.net, twitter, friendfeed, digg, dotnetkicks, etc). That section is not manually culled so it tends to overpower the rest. I would suggest subscribing to the individual sections minus the Buzz (blogs, news, video, and InAction) instead of the entire aggregate to lessen the noise. Actually now that I think about it I should probably put another aggregate feed together for everything except the Buzz for those who don't want to drink from the firehose.

Re: Google Chrome, I could kiss you! (Or, multi-process browsers are a really good idea)

MarkNijhof — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 09:54:01 -0000

I use Chrome a lot nowadays too, it still has many quirks do. You may also want to try IE8 which also uses different processes for each tab. Scott wrote a post about comparing Microsoft IE8 and Google Chrome: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/MicrosoftIE8AndGo...

-Mark

Re: .NET Utility Libraries Galore

Rinat Abdullin — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 02:08:01 -0000

Hi Nathan,

You've got a great list there!

Here's one more open source utility library: http://rabdullin.com/projects/lokad-shared/
It comes from the experience of building multiple distributed information management solutions.

Best regards,
Rinat Abdullin

Re: Sense/Net 6.0 CMS/Enterprise Portal Beta 1 Released

Biro Tom — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 04:17:28 -0000

Hi Nathan!
Thanks for the great post. I hope you'll like it.
Invitel also has a new English site at http://english.invitel.hu/ so you'll be able to read it. We know, Hungarian is a little funny for foreigners, but we like it. :-)

Re: What Lao Tse thinks of TDD

nstults — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 01:13:05 -0000

I appreciate the compliment. I agree, my analogy was just one aspect of TDD, whereas it is a much larger practice than that. It's a strange practice - it is has immense value, and I agree that part of its difficulty is the lack of any counterpart in usual experience. It goes against the natural grain of logic - how can you test something you have only vaguely conceived? But you should. One of the things I love about software development, though, is its uniqueness - software as a medium is so pliable, so flexible, that it defies the usual approaches to engineering, which is why I think people have started calling it a "craft" - but it's also engineering - hard to pin down :) Thanks for the comment, and I'm glad you appreciated the post.