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 Gašper Kozak is talking about are downright frightening. The websites I’m making are very rarely protected against this I must say. Really should pay more attention to security when I’m doing stuff, yeah sure I’m s

afe against most php-based problems. But I never even paid attention to these frontend stuffs.

12:27 Lesson learned. Don’t try to be friendly to users because hackers can easily abuse it and rape you from behind.

14:17 “Sad je trenutak velikih odluka! Bolje zivjesti sto godina kao milijunas nego sedam dana u bijedi!” Yes we’ve just finished lunch and this is on big screen. BlackBerry won’t give pictures to mac, will keep trying @gandalfar

14:20 Seems I wasn’t paying attention to the introduction because I have no idea who’s talking. They look like a tad older gent with graying hair and sexy spectacles. Interesting shoes too … well he’s talking about starting companies and whatnot. Can we really not get through a networking event anymore without listening about entrepreneurship (no matter how interesting the topic, it gets old). Recession ™ ?

And yes, still no pictures, the blackberry and laptop aren’t playing along.

14:30 Switched from Opera to Firefox to keep blogging. Zemanta, did you know drag&drop image adding doesn’t work in Opera? Anyway, the guy described before is Robert Šefman, very suiting name for the topic. Think we’ve stumbled into the more boring parts of starting a company. I mean, it’s an interesting topic, but this is minutiae, I’d much rather listen about the interesting parts. About the guts and the glory if you will.

14:45 To be honest, all this talk about taxes and how bloody confusing all of this is … hell, I’d almost rather become a topology mathematician than an entrepreneur. It does make _some_ sense, but very little. Not Robert’s fault of course, he’s doing his best to explain this stuff to us noobs, but it’s just one large brainfuck.

15:05 Back to more technical stuff apparently. Denis Arh will be talking about php cli but unfortunately I have to leave for my midterm. No more live blogging. Buh bye guys, see you at the party.

Day2 live blog

Tags: openID, phpkonferenca, Single sign-on