Rob Conery Talks OpenID and More
Rob Conery tells us why OpenID is a nightmare, and why he's stopped using it. Oh yeah, he's also given up Twitter. We also talked about the mind/body connection and the challenges of working at home. Also: whale watching, home brewing, music, barbeque, wine, and following your bliss.
Guests:
Rob Conery
Rob Conery helps developers of all sorts learn what's new with technology. He has been working in the technology field full time since 1998 as a DBA and then a web developer. Rob's original focus was the Microsoft ASP.NET stack, building tools like Subsonic and the first Micro-ORM: Massive. He also authored MassiveJS, a dedicated PostgreSQL data access tool for Node which he ported to Elixir and named it Moebius. Rob is also the author of The Imposter's Handbook, which is a compendium of skills and concepts that you need to know as a self-taught programmer. Things like Complexity Theory (P vs NP), Big-O notation, Database theory, Algorithms and more.
Links:
- Opportunity Rover 7th Birthday Picture http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2011-002
- Blog Post: OpenID is a Nightmare http://blog.wekeroad.com/thoughts/open-id-is-a-party-that-happened
- Declining OpenID Usage http://blog.crowdvine.com/2009/04/02/declining-openid-usage/