Wet, late and hungry I arrived at the IJS venue where I’ll be staying all day listening to odd people talking about interesting stuff – very interesting I hope. Just so you know, I have a valid excuse for being late and missing the event’s introduction and everything, but let’s not get into that now (just so you know, I didn’t oversleep).

Right now I’m listening to Dusan Omercevic, I believe, talking about openID. Don’t really know what’s going on since I missed about half his lecture

10:23 Currently we’re discussing what the biggest problem of openID is and why it will never be used as a service but rather as a technology. Apparently the crux of the matter is that users like simplicity and corporations want huge databases of their users. Personally I think this will effectively kill openID, because every site or group of sites will have their own openID and users will still end up having twenty different usernames and passwords … except they’ll be called openID’s.

10:45 We’ve reached the other portion of this openID talk and it’s … not very interesting. A lot of technical stuff, which is just discouraging me from using this protocol. I still don’t exactly understand why I should. Coding a regular login system is easy as hell, this just seems needlessly complex for probably around 90% web devs out there.

11:28 Very interesting invitation to try along this guy’s hacking techniques on our websites. Should be useful to test Chlorine Boards. Hope I don’t do too much damage, ’cause I don’t have anywhere else to test than production websites.

12:12 Wow I think I need a new pair of trousers ’cause I just shat brix! The methods for doing crazy fun things on other people’s websites that Ga

Tags: openID, phpkonferenca, Single sign-on