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Early Bird ends tomorrow for Apereo 2013 Conference
Early Bird registration discounts end tomorrow (Friday May 3rd 2013) for the Open Apereo 2013 conference.
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Andrew Petro
After graduating with a degree in Computer Science from Yale University in 2004, Andrew stayed on to serve his alma mater as a casual systems programmer with the Technology & Planning group. His interests include automated software testing, application frameworks, and electronic security. Projects in which Andrew has been involved include the Central Authentication Service, YaleInfo Portal (Yale's uPortal implementation), the Jasig uPortal project, and the Jasig CAS project. Andrew has previously served on the Jasig uPortal and CAS steering committees, has been the release engineer for uPortal, and has been published in the Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery on the topic of electronic voting. In spring 2006 Andrew joined Unicon full time, serving various roles, including now as the Cooperative Support for CAS technical lead.
Q1 2013 Cooperative Support for CAS Update
The Q1 2013 Cooperative Support for CAS Update webinar was held at at 8:30 Pacific == 11:30 Eastern on 27 March 2013. Slideware is available on SlideShare.
Your Blogmaster:
Andrew Petro
After graduating with a degree in Computer Science from Yale University in 2004, Andrew stayed on to serve his alma mater as a casual systems programmer with the Technology & Planning group. His interests include automated software testing, application frameworks, and electronic security. Projects in which Andrew has been involved include the Central Authentication Service, YaleInfo Portal (Yale's uPortal implementation), the Jasig uPortal project, and the Jasig CAS project. Andrew has previously served on the Jasig uPortal and CAS steering committees, has been the release engineer for uPortal, and has been published in the Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery on the topic of electronic voting. In spring 2006 Andrew joined Unicon full time, serving various roles, including now as the Cooperative Support for CAS technical lead.
Q4 2012 Cooperative Support for CAS Update
A quick post to publicly share the slides for today's Cooperative Support for CAS Update briefing.
Your Blogmaster:
Andrew Petro
After graduating with a degree in Computer Science from Yale University in 2004, Andrew stayed on to serve his alma mater as a casual systems programmer with the Technology & Planning group. His interests include automated software testing, application frameworks, and electronic security. Projects in which Andrew has been involved include the Central Authentication Service, YaleInfo Portal (Yale's uPortal implementation), the Jasig uPortal project, and the Jasig CAS project. Andrew has previously served on the Jasig uPortal and CAS steering committees, has been the release engineer for uPortal, and has been published in the Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery on the topic of electronic voting. In spring 2006 Andrew joined Unicon full time, serving various roles, including now as the Cooperative Support for CAS technical lead.
Failed login attempt throttling in CAS
Part of a series on reviewing CAS configuration, this post discusses failed login attempt throttling in CAS.
Your Blogmaster:
Andrew Petro
After graduating with a degree in Computer Science from Yale University in 2004, Andrew stayed on to serve his alma mater as a casual systems programmer with the Technology & Planning group. His interests include automated software testing, application frameworks, and electronic security. Projects in which Andrew has been involved include the Central Authentication Service, YaleInfo Portal (Yale's uPortal implementation), the Jasig uPortal project, and the Jasig CAS project. Andrew has previously served on the Jasig uPortal and CAS steering committees, has been the release engineer for uPortal, and has been published in the Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery on the topic of electronic voting. In spring 2006 Andrew joined Unicon full time, serving various roles, including now as the Cooperative Support for CAS technical lead.
Turn off the demo authentication handler in CAS
This is a post about one of the quickest and most important things to check in reviewing CAS configuration: ensure that the demo password handler has been turned off. This post is one of a series on reviewing CAS configuration.
Your Blogmaster:
Andrew Petro
After graduating with a degree in Computer Science from Yale University in 2004, Andrew stayed on to serve his alma mater as a casual systems programmer with the Technology & Planning group. His interests include automated software testing, application frameworks, and electronic security. Projects in which Andrew has been involved include the Central Authentication Service, YaleInfo Portal (Yale's uPortal implementation), the Jasig uPortal project, and the Jasig CAS project. Andrew has previously served on the Jasig uPortal and CAS steering committees, has been the release engineer for uPortal, and has been published in the Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery on the topic of electronic voting. In spring 2006 Andrew joined Unicon full time, serving various roles, including now as the Cooperative Support for CAS technical lead.
CAS Configuration Review
I was helping with a CAS upgrade to CAS 3.5.1 the other day, in the course of which I reviewed the configuration. This blog post begins a series of posts about items in that and other CAS configuration reviews.
Your Blogmaster:
Andrew Petro
After graduating with a degree in Computer Science from Yale University in 2004, Andrew stayed on to serve his alma mater as a casual systems programmer with the Technology & Planning group. His interests include automated software testing, application frameworks, and electronic security. Projects in which Andrew has been involved include the Central Authentication Service, YaleInfo Portal (Yale's uPortal implementation), the Jasig uPortal project, and the Jasig CAS project. Andrew has previously served on the Jasig uPortal and CAS steering committees, has been the release engineer for uPortal, and has been published in the Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery on the topic of electronic voting. In spring 2006 Andrew joined Unicon full time, serving various roles, including now as the Cooperative Support for CAS technical lead.
Q3 2012 Unicon-involving CAS Progress
In which I discuss Unicon-involving progress on Jasig CAS in the last quarter, and a bit about CAS more generally.
Your Blogmaster:
Andrew Petro
After graduating with a degree in Computer Science from Yale University in 2004, Andrew stayed on to serve his alma mater as a casual systems programmer with the Technology & Planning group. His interests include automated software testing, application frameworks, and electronic security. Projects in which Andrew has been involved include the Central Authentication Service, YaleInfo Portal (Yale's uPortal implementation), the Jasig uPortal project, and the Jasig CAS project. Andrew has previously served on the Jasig uPortal and CAS steering committees, has been the release engineer for uPortal, and has been published in the Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery on the topic of electronic voting. In spring 2006 Andrew joined Unicon full time, serving various roles, including now as the Cooperative Support for CAS technical lead.
Come to Jasig-Sakai UnConference January 2013
In which I help get the word out about the Jasig-Sakai UnConference January 2013 in sunny Phoenix, Arizona.
Your Blogmaster:
Andrew Petro
After graduating with a degree in Computer Science from Yale University in 2004, Andrew stayed on to serve his alma mater as a casual systems programmer with the Technology & Planning group. His interests include automated software testing, application frameworks, and electronic security. Projects in which Andrew has been involved include the Central Authentication Service, YaleInfo Portal (Yale's uPortal implementation), the Jasig uPortal project, and the Jasig CAS project. Andrew has previously served on the Jasig uPortal and CAS steering committees, has been the release engineer for uPortal, and has been published in the Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery on the topic of electronic voting. In spring 2006 Andrew joined Unicon full time, serving various roles, including now as the Cooperative Support for CAS technical lead.
Unicon CAS development progress through June 2012
In which I summarize recent Unicon participation in and contributions to the Jasig CAS open source Java single sign-on product project, for a rather long meaning of “recent”.
Your Blogmaster:
Andrew Petro
After graduating with a degree in Computer Science from Yale University in 2004, Andrew stayed on to serve his alma mater as a casual systems programmer with the Technology & Planning group. His interests include automated software testing, application frameworks, and electronic security. Projects in which Andrew has been involved include the Central Authentication Service, YaleInfo Portal (Yale's uPortal implementation), the Jasig uPortal project, and the Jasig CAS project. Andrew has previously served on the Jasig uPortal and CAS steering committees, has been the release engineer for uPortal, and has been published in the Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery on the topic of electronic voting. In spring 2006 Andrew joined Unicon full time, serving various roles, including now as the Cooperative Support for CAS technical lead.
CAS-related sessions at Jasig-Sakai 2012
Jasig-Sakai 2012 was a great conference last week, and it included oodles of good CAS-related sessions. In this blog post I highlight some of the richness.
Your Blogmaster:
Andrew Petro
After graduating with a degree in Computer Science from Yale University in 2004, Andrew stayed on to serve his alma mater as a casual systems programmer with the Technology & Planning group. His interests include automated software testing, application frameworks, and electronic security. Projects in which Andrew has been involved include the Central Authentication Service, YaleInfo Portal (Yale's uPortal implementation), the Jasig uPortal project, and the Jasig CAS project. Andrew has previously served on the Jasig uPortal and CAS steering committees, has been the release engineer for uPortal, and has been published in the Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery on the topic of electronic voting. In spring 2006 Andrew joined Unicon full time, serving various roles, including now as the Cooperative Support for CAS technical lead.
