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Allan's Best Week Ever

My Job? Making others successful.

Shhh! Let’s launch this global thing, you and meToday

eek! It’s Friday, so time to invest in that 20% thingee :) I think it is time you and I just launch a global singing revolution. What do you think?

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Ooo, Windows 7 Beta on MSDN SubscriptionsJanuary 7

eek! Downloading now...

P.S. Wow, you can still download Windows 3.1. Memories...

.NET Programmers in the CloudJanuary 5

eek! Just a friendly reminder, join us (.NET Programmers Group on Facebook) for our session on programming the cloud with the Microsoft Azure Services Platform. It takes place on Tuesday, January 6th 2008 at 8 pm US Eastern Time. The abstract:

You may have heard that Microsoft recently unveiled its platform for cloud computing – the Azure Services Platform. In this session we will explore the platform, its architecture and programming model. Programming for this platform reuses skills built around .NET, ASP.NET and Visual Studio, so we will build services using familiar tools. At the end of this session you will understand all the resources to get started programming the Azure Services Platform.

If you'd like to join us but not join Facebook, that's ok too. Here is the link for the session.

Can’t make the session? Well get started with the Azure Services Training Kit and don’t forget your moments of Zen :)

Moment of Zen part 1

My identity crisis - I didn't know DickJanuary 4

eek! After catching up on my reading, I realized that I had an identity crisis - a deficiency in being able to explain digital identity in everyday language. Ugh. The good news is that I tend to read a lot of blogs that raise my IQ. Kim Cameron acknowledged Dick Hardt is joining Microsoft. I didn't know Dick, but I follow Kim, so I decided to take Kim's advice...

"There has never been a better presentation on identity than Dick’s presentation on Identity 2.0. He has played a pivotal role as a catalyst and contributed great thinking and technical ideas to the identity community as an important figure in OpenID. It’s exciting to think that we’ll be working together more closely - I have no doubt that Microsoft will be a good place for him to continue all the good work he has beein doing, as a key figure in moving user-centric identity forward as fast as possible."

Wow, I watched that presentation. What a treat! I feel I can now articulate digital identity...even to my wife.

So what's the deal with the Geneva Framework? Given a healthier understanding of digital identity and claims based authorization, I have a better appreciation for

Happy New Year from a Strange Fellow!December 31 2008

eek! It has certainly been a great year of learning for me and I wish you all the very best for 2009. If this is your first visit, here’s what I talked about in December. May you find a link that makes you think differently!