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 with […]
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. As […]
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 about these […]
Today I committed a few pretty substantial changes to wp-openid, changing how the OpenID flow happens. Effectively, I’ve created a new single endpoint which receives all OpenID responses, located at /openid_consumer. Previously, these response were sent to a number of different endpoints depending on whether you were simply logging in, leaving a comment, or adding […]
So it’s not exactly news at this point, but it is indeed true that as of today I am now employed by Vidoop. This has been a few months in the making, so I figured I’d explain a little of why and how we got to this point. I’ve been working in the Identity Management […]