MikeFitz with overflow bit set…

What an excellent day that was!  Actually, I reckon every day one spends on the correct side of the earth-air interface is an excellent day; and I’ve just clocked up another 365 of them.  Yep, it’s a bloke’s birthday today.

You know what I enjoy most about my birthday?  It’s feeling the earth rotate.

My birthday started with well-wishes just after midnight from some night-owls and early risers on the other side of the planet.  Then as the sun rose over Australia, the Aussies started up.  A little later the Asians then Europeans chimed in, followed later by my friends in North and South America.

E-mails, tweets, Facebook wall posts, phone calls, text messages, even snail-mail cards; they came from everywhere.  “Happy Birthday“, “Bon Anniversaire“, “Feliz Aniversário“.  One needs no better demonstration of how small our planet is and how inter-connected we all are than to experience the birthday I’ve just enjoyed.

Thank you all; I’ve been privileged.

Mike

PS
And if I wasn’t already a winner, one of those snail-mail birthday cards was from one of my sisters.  It contained a scratchie.  I’ve won $12 on top of all today’s joy.

Welcome back to the first QMSDNUG meeting for 2011.

Sly Gryphon, Readify:
Web sign in with Windows Identity Foundation

This month’s presentation will introduce you to using Windows Identity Foundation to make your existing ASP.NET web applications claims-aware.  The WIF library from Microsoft makes it easy to provide federated access to your application, and talk will include a demonstration of implementing web single sign on (SSO) as a relying party

The evening will also include a brief overview of related security technologies from Microsoft, including Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) and CardSpace.

About Sly Gryphon
Sly is a Senior Consultant at Readify, and has been working with .NET since being trained on the beta in December 2001.  He has over 15 years experience with the web, and has worked on some of Australia’s largest web sites.

Sly has recently moved from NSW to Queensland, and this will be his first presentation at QMSDNUG.  You can find Sly’s blog at http://sgryphon.wordpress.com/.

Date: Tuesday 15 Feb 2011
Time: 17:30 for 18:00
Location: Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane

RSVP
All welcome. Bring your colleagues.
If you haven’t already done so, an immediate rsvp by email to mike@fitzsimon.com.au will help with planning.

These details are also on QMSDNUG’s website at www.qmsdnug.org.