Posted June 29th, 2007 So Catalyst is winding down. And as usual a good time was had by all.
A couple of notable quotes from the week:
- Jim Heaton – Architect systems so they fail like escalators, not elevators.
- Bob Blakley – PKI as slow motion failure
- Mitch Hamilton – If you’re gonna be dumb, you’ve got to be tough.
- Bob (again) – Depending on a secret builds risk.
- Jonathan Schwartz – Eventually, I’ll run my ERP system on a BlackBerry.
As for thoughts on the Catalyst content… There was still a lot of conversation around user-centric identity. I think Bob’s comparison of new and old school identity systems, which nicely compared federation to user-centric identity, was an excellent primer. Personally, if they had stopped with just that presentation, I would have been happy and not needed anything else on the topic.
Having heard a few presentations on fine grained authorization, I still am trying to figure out the root cause behind it all. I’m unclear of what is really driving people to expose their applications’ authorization models. I think, and this is just my speculation, that cause behind this is that user provisioning systems have done a relatively poor job in managing entitlements. Am I on the right path here? Continue reading "Catalyst 2007: Quotes and Thoughts"...
Posted June 29th, 2007 I haven’t processed the shots I took at Catalyst this evening. Needless to say, they won’t be as good as Bob’s. I rarely like photos of myself, but I do like this one.
Posted June 27th, 2007 Last night I had dinner with a cast of characters:
We grabbed a late batch of dim sum at Ton Kiang. Good stuff I have to say.
One of the things that Mark Mc and noticed was that the identity market is remarkably small. It is definitely a good thing that ex-Access360/IBM, Thor/Oracle, Waveset/Sun guys can break bread and have a laugh over the deals that we used to compete. It’s that (grudging, at times) comradery in this market that I love and it is one the things that makes Catalyst so much fun.
Posted June 26th, 2007 I think I stayed in the exact same room last year. It faces west and on a day like today, the wind whips on from the west and slams into the windows. The windows open about an inch. And if you open them, you create a very interesting wind pattern in your room, one that makes a LOT of noise. Cross the sounds of Hell that Dante described with a sound a small jet engine. I apologize to those of you on the 38th floor… but I kind of like staying in a room the sounds like a sound stage for Ghost Busters.
I’ll be headed to dinner to night with the identitystuff crew. Should be good fun. I’ve got the Pentax with me so I’ll try and upload shots when I can.
Posted June 21st, 2007 Mark was kind enough to recommend a few new watering holes in San Francisco. He also made his own mashup to create Cataclysmic Catalyst. In that vein of thought, I give you a snigglet: Paracatalysis – the identity market-wide halt during Catalyst. Paracatalysis continues into the week after Catalyst as well. Given that the following week is also July 4th week and that the 4th is a Wednesday, pretty much puts the identity market (at least here in the States) to sleep for two whole weeks.
As one who will be at Mark’s dinner, I am thankful that there will be no kilt involved. Having seen it once was plenty.
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