Monday 18 August 2014

Back at it!

It has been a while I've been on here reason being that my Supervisor almost had my head, well not literally but PhD is so no joke! My supervisor began taking charge of my research work and I wasn't finding it funny, till I prayed and found my voice.
So, I am a Christian Computer researcher, you'll hear a lot about my relationship with God in most of my blog post doesn't mean I want to bore you but I cannot have a story without my God.
Well, I had an issue with my University and I almost discarded the idea of owning a PhD degree but through prayer I found my voice and I stood firm so here I am.

I am working with Biometrics and online banking and every other thing online that has to do with finance so I have to do literature review and a mini-thesis and also write a conference paper within 6 months, actually within 3 months! Yes!
Worse, my supervisor is into Identity management and everything I do he tends to relate it to what he knows so it's kind of pretty difficult working with him. I hate IDM and have very little knowledge of it. I do not want to do a research in IDM though biometrics is involved in my research.
My supervisor tells me to use SimpleSamlPHP for my implementation (like seriously? How?) I still haven't figured out that implementation on Windows, and yes I am a windows person, I was a Linux person please don't ask how I switched.
So I look at Shibboleth and I still don't see how these SSOs will help me. Now I have found some online banking dummy apps I can work with but it doesn't solve my problem. I have to do my implementation from scratch! (I can do it!)...

What I am not sure about is how asp.net or wcf will help here. I want to use wcf but some say asp.net is better. Where do I start?