This site now allows OpenID logins. I think OpenID is a great idea. All your information and credentials are maintained in one location, which you can give a secure password. On any site that support OpenID you can then log in. The cool thing is that your password is kept safe. The OpenID enabled sites never see your password.

Here's the basic flow: You navigate to a site that is OpenID enabled. You enter your ID and hit login. The site then contacts the OpenID issuer and asks if it is OK to log you in. You must separately log in to your OpenID provider and grant permission to that site. There is some encryption stuff that goes on under the covers to keep your password safe and to ensure that you are who you say you are. Finally, you are logged in without having to create yet another account or memorize another password.

For more information see the official OpenID website. As an OpenID provider I strongly recomend VeriSign. They are a very reputable company and well known for internet security. You can get your own OpenID by visiting their site here.

One of the things that I'd like to spend a lot of time on is CORBA testing. Frankly, I'm appalled at the lack of resources available for testing CORBA components. In my searching I've found very few articles and even fewer software test tools.

Since I am a big fan of Open Source software, this blog will mostly attempt to use such tools. However, that does not preclude that commercial tools will never be used, just that less focus will be given them.

So, just what will this blog be? It will be a combination of tool reviews, personal testing experiences, lessons learned in testing, cool bugs I've found, and so forth. Since my role at work is that of software test lead, and since our software is all CORBA based, then that's where I will focus. There will never be any company confidential information shared here, just general observations.

I look forward to getting this thing going and putting up useful information.