Category Archives: technology

OpenID and WordPress Core

By Will Norris | Published: September 29, 2009

This was actually a comment I left on my last post about the v3.3 release of the OpenID plugin. It is a topic that comes up relatively often, and one in which most people are surprised when they hear my stance on it. It’s worthy of a separate discussion for those that are interested, so […]

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WordPress OpenID v3.3

By Will Norris | Published: September 28, 2009

I’ve finally gone ahead and released version 3.3 of the WordPress OpenID plugin. This release includes three major sets of changes. First, it drops support for older versions of WordPress… the minimum required version is now 2.8. Trying to maintain backwards compatibility requires a non-trivial amount of effort, and I’d rather spend that time working […]

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iTunes 9, now with more WebKit

By Will Norris | Published: September 9, 2009

As John Gruber predicted yesterday, iTunes 9 certainly uses WebKit much more than the last version. I used wireshark to do a packet trace when I clicked on the Rock Music section. Sure enough, if you gunzip the response, it is effectively standard HTML (though they do declare a custom XML namespace for everything). It […]

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A New Kind of OpenID Proxy

By Will Norris | Published: August 3, 2009

After writing last weeks post on directed identity, I really got to thinking on the topic a little more. One of the things that has always bothered me about the prospect of sites requiring the use of directed identity, is that it means I can no longer use my self-hosted OpenID to login. Currently, I […]

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Best Practices with Directed Identity

By Will Norris | Published: August 2, 2009

Given the current discussion happening right now around federal website cookie policies, and the good response I got from my last post, I wanted to continue talking about directed identity a little bit. In this post, I want to talk about how directed identity has actually been implemented in projects I’ve been involved with, and […]

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