Archive for December, 2006

Chuck just dropped me a line, he’s taken the XPCOM interface that Kevin defined in his FireFox extension for CardSpace and implemented the interface to allow his code to work in the same vein.  He’s also added the code for a configuration dialog, which Kevin hadn’t done yet, so now you can switch between the [...]

Monday, December 18th, 2006 at 12:40 Comments Off

Detecting support for CardSpace, or more importantly information cards in the browser is pretty important, as it would allow the web developer the opportunity to appropriately show the “sign in with your information card” button/link or other text as needed. The following Javascript will return true if you have support for information cards. function AreCardsSupported() {   var [...]

Tuesday, December 12th, 2006 at 15:30 Comments Off

This is very exciting news. Kevin Miller, has released his FireFox extension for CardSpace. We have been collaborating for the last several weeks in order to for him to deliver this really critical piece of the Identity Metasystem. Kevin’s work on this has been nothing less than fantastic. I assisted him where I could, mostly [...]

Tuesday, December 12th, 2006 at 13:55 Comments Off

I originally wrote these rules, when I was a self-employed Consultant, but they remain fairly relevant, and I thought it might be useful to post them again, and possibly re-order and reflect upon what they mean. Originally, they were: All Software Sucks In All likelihood Garrett is correct, try to save time and effort by [...]

Monday, December 4th, 2006 at 09:37 Comments Off

I’m going to start using this blog as my master blog. I’ll still cross-post stuff to my other blogs, depending on exactly what the content is.   Who the heck am I? My name is Garrett Serack. I currently am the Community Program Manager for Windows CardSpace and the Federated Identity technologies at Microsoft.  My [...]

Friday, December 1st, 2006 at 11:39 Comments Off