Robby on Rails: One ID to rule them allthoughts.sort_by{|t| t[:topic]}.collect tag:www.robbyonrails.com,2005:TypoTypo2007-06-25T12:17:04-04:00Robby Russellurn:uuid:6801d635-9e20-491c-abfd-036746018aa92007-06-25T11:44:00-04:002007-06-25T12:17:04-04:00One ID to rule them all<p>I finally decided to put my <a href="http://claimid.com/robbyrussell">claimID</a> to use today with the <a href="http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/479-basecamp-gets-openid-and-open-bar">announcement that Basecamp now supports openID</a>. This means that I can easily access all of my Basecamp project with a single login. Some of our clients have their own Basecamp projects and having everything spread around (different usernames, passwords…) made it difficult to manage. I just modified my accounts on a few Basecamp sites and now see them all listed for me to navigate between.</p>
<p><strong>update</strong>: Minor annoyance. This caused all my <span class="caps">RSS</span> feeds to break because I subscribe to each project individually. I assumed that they’d allow me to now use my openid/password for all my <span class="caps">RSS</span> feeds/iCal subscriptions, but they provide you some unique hash for the password. Not sure why they decided to do that… instead of allowing me to use my openid/pass for the subscriptions.</p><p>I finally decided to put my <a href="http://claimid.com/robbyrussell">claimID</a> to use today with the <a href="http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/479-basecamp-gets-openid-and-open-bar">announcement that Basecamp now supports openID</a>. This means that I can easily access all of my Basecamp project with a single login. Some of our clients have their own Basecamp projects and having everything spread around (different usernames, passwords…) made it difficult to manage. I just modified my accounts on a few Basecamp sites and now see them all listed for me to navigate between.</p>
<p><strong>update</strong>: Minor annoyance. This caused all my <span class="caps">RSS</span> feeds to break because I subscribe to each project individually. I assumed that they’d allow me to now use my openid/password for all my <span class="caps">RSS</span> feeds/iCal subscriptions, but they provide you some unique hash for the password. Not sure why they decided to do that… instead of allowing me to use my openid/pass for the subscriptions.</p>