Category Archives: identity

The Open Stack (in PHP)

By Will Norris | Published: March 19, 2009
A couple of months or so ago, I made a conscious shift in my focus with the DiSo Project. Instead of continuing to concentrate on some of the higher level deliverables like WordPress plugins, I decided it was time to step back and evaluate where the development community (specifically the PHP development community) is [...]

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Authentication in WordPress 2.8

By Will Norris | Published: March 10, 2009
Use Case I’ve spent a lot of time working with the WordPress authentication system. I took over the OpenID plugin for WordPress two years ago, and was hired by Vidoop last May to work on the DiSo Project full time. Last summer, Matt Mullenweg invited me to talk at WordCamp SF 2008 about OAuth. [...]

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Challenges in changing my OpenID

By Will Norris | Published: December 19, 2008
I recently decided to combine two personal websites I had (this one, willnorris.com, and will.norris.name) so that I had a single web presence. I chose to use willnorris.com as my canonical URL, but this presented two problems: I have been listing will.norris.name as my homepage in my various social networks profiles and on blog comments. [...]

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DiSo - One Year Later

By Will Norris | Published: December 18, 2008
I’m not sure that anyone mentioned it really, but a couple of weeks ago was the one year anniversary of the DiSo Project. In that time, Chris and I were both hired by Vidoop to work on DiSo full-time, and Steve was picked up by Six Apart. We’ve also seen the entire discussion [...]

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Consolidating domains

By Will Norris | Published: November 13, 2008
For a while now, I’ve had two different personal websites. I have my personal blog at willnorris.com, which you’re reading now. And I also have my “identity site” at will.norris.name, which includes my hcard, activity stream, contact list, and a list of my profiles on various websites. I’ve also used this identity site [...]

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