In The Realm of Passwordless Authentication With OpenID (Featuring Vidoop)

How many sites do you visit regularly? How many times do you repeat the process of inputting username and password? Are you a regular visitor of “Forget your password?” link or you vehemently deny, saying you always remember all your passwords because they are all the same or follow the same pattern?

I Can Not Remember Passwords

You might say, “Are you kidding me, or you’re plainly a moron?” Yes, I probably am. During my early ages with internet, services offered were not that many and diverse like todays. I mainly used internet to check my email, hence remembering password was not a problem because I apparently used single password (or two for my other account).

Internet evolves, applications are built. New sites emerge everyday. I read news and article about new technology especially on websites and web apps. Another Joe said site A was cool because it offered yada-yada service. I dropped a visit, took a demo, and was eager to use the service offered. But it’s not free even it’s free (or it’s free with limitation if money is the term), i should be authenticated and authorized to use the service, hence registration (+payment) and another username-password pair.

After years, I found out that I had collected hundreds of username-password pairs. Hundreds? Yes, for sure. Credentials for e-payment should be different with the ones used in forums, emails, or other less critical service. Unfortunately,remembering which pair to be used in a site was and is always PITA. After being a regular patient of “Forget your password?”, I decided to organize login credentials so that I would never forget and could easily find out the username/password for a website/service. How?

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7 Reasons To Use Jquery As The Javascript Framework In Your Web 2.0 Apps

Jquery logoJavascript. Is it nightmare? I’m not a seasoned javascript developer myself but I can say that it’s sometimes nightmare especially when dealing with tedious DOM selection and cross browser compatibility workaround.

Good news is the javascript gurus out there always try to find new methods and best practices in dealing with javascript. Libraries and frameworks are developed and published. Best practices are evangelized. More tutorials are written. But still, for non programmers, it’s not that easy to get in touch and familiarized with javascript.

Until jquery comes.. (and you must believe me, I’m not associated with jquery team. I’m an independent writer).

What’s good with jquery? Will it suit your development platform, especially when building Web 2.0 where javascript is extensively deployed? You can read the following reasons and then decide yourself.

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How The IT Giant Competes In Ads

Reading ads from IT companies is always interesting. When a company grows big or the company is already a big player in the field, marketing and PR work in many occassions turns to be quite important, just like how a company emphasizes on outstanding product development during its early age.

Recently, I was so busy with my projects and hardly found time to read latest news or info from my mag and journal subscription. Surprisingly, in this May/June edition of Oracle Magazine which I just read, I found this very interesting ad in one page of the magazine.

Oracle Magazine ads May/June 2007

Hilarious!! This is not an ordinary ad. This is a direct-confrontation wrapped in a sweet ad candy.

I don’t know other parties’s reaction, but it will be fascin-IT-ing to see how IBM or Microsoft responds to this challenge.

Big companies always have their own creative mind.

IBM To Bundle PHP Apps With System I

I got an email from my colleague about IBM’s plan to bundle PHP apps with System I. About System I itself, it’s a new business system with multiple OS support (IBM i5/OS, MS Windows, Linux, and IBM AIX 5L) and hardened security. System I is the successor of legendary AS/400 machine. More info about System I can be found at the homepage: http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/i/

IBM is looking for proposals from PHP developers to get a list of prospective apps to bundle. This is an interesting opportunity for PHP developers to show off their talent and skills. This offer is regional. Please contact your nearest IBM office to get more details about this offer.

Zend Framework 1.0, First Stable Release For Your Commercial And Enterprise PHP Web Apps

zf_logo.pngJuly 1st, 2007 is a monumental day for Zend and their developers. It’s the day when Zend Framework 1.0, the first stable version of the framework, was released to public. What’s with the fuss?

It’s important for a business entity (eg. company) to make sure the business process run smoothly and profitable during the whole cycle. A lot of components are involved in company operation which determine company success, one of them is software (yes, we’re talking about modern companies). For technology-driven company, software provision and implementation is crucial. Software is not only for administration use, it solidifies and improves business process.

Now we’ll get the scope smaller by emphasizing software lifecycle processes on companies which provide web-based service or consider web existence as business image. Serious companies follow certain standard in its operation. By using standard, it will be able to measure the whole process and assess whether the operations succeeded and desired outcome achieved. Talking about software cycle, there are several evolving models used to reflect the software cycle, from the old Waterfall model to international standard ISO/IEC 12207.

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