I thought I might have a go at familiarizing myself with TurboGears, one of the new Python web frameworks, by writing a new and improved clone of the Picky Picky Game. Step one was verifying that I can upload pictures easily. Step two was getting an identity system put together. Creating a registration page and log-in form and so on is the obvious and dull solution, so I thought I’d have a go at exploiting OpenID instead. Read more
I’m still abuzz after the Oxford Geeks Nights #1 last night. Working as I do in the slime pits of Microsoft Windows ASP.NET, it was exciting just seeing so many Macs lined up on the stage, their little apple logos glowing in the semidarkness; the only non-Macs I spotted were running Ubuntu Linux or similar. Read more
With all this buzz about OpenID all of a sudden I have been reminded of how a while back I was tinkering with a TurboGears-based web game using OpenID (see parts 1, 2, 3). Having learned more about WSGI and Python Paste I am inclined to see how far I can push the idea of writing web applications using WSGI and a collection of WSGI filters as my framework. Read more
Programmers learn through programming, and my research into OpenID has got as far as a web application that lets you do nothing at all except log in with OpenID. Along the way I have played a bit with Canonical’s own object-relational mapper (ORM) called Storm. Read more
While trying to figure out how to implement a single-sign-on (SSO) system for a custom with OpenID, I has a minor insight when I realized that OpenID is not a SSO server. Its actual purpose is slightly different. Read more
Quick answers to a couple of questions that came up when I was discussing OpenID as part of a single-sign-on solution at work. Read more