January 08, 2006

You Have Our Undivided Attention, Eve! :)

Pushing String ? The universal solvent of identity information

As promised in November, I’m finally making available my new “SAML basics” slides and paper. The explorations of M. David Peterson and Russ Miles with their nuxle.us/ChannelXML project made me do it!

If I were to try to describe the change in mindset that took place between my twenties and my thirties it would be both the realization and implementation of the fact that it's impossible to know everything (so don't pretend that you do) and furthermore it's OK if you don't.

Fast-forwarding through a bunch of gibber-jabber, unnecessary to the point of this post...

The way to solve this supposed problem is to surround yourself with either people, books, (in modern day publishing terms) web sites/pages, and/or other media/mediums in which we can either learn from or rely upon (trust) to provide the necessary pieces of the project we are trying to build or puzzle we are currently trying to solve.

I'm pretty fortunate in my life... I've been able to interact with and learn from some pretty amazing folks such as Eve Maler and Russ Miles. Of course this is not a complete list, a list in which is, AMAZINGLY, too long to try and put into print as part of this post. At some point I need to compile that list, and when I do I will make just such a post.

In the mean time, Eve, Russ... You've got my undivided attention :)

To quote from one of the folks/shows in which I would probably turn the TV back on each week if it was still part of the NBC lineup (Frasier):

I'm Listening.