Jasig 2010 Early Bird Registration

Early bird registration and hotel discounts for Jasig 2010, which may be the best Jasig conference yet, are available through January 31st. The conference itself is March 8-10, with supplementary seminars and opportunities before and after the conference.

There's all sorts of excellent keynotes, seminars, and sessions planned for this conference. I took a moment today to register for the conference, so I figure I should blog a reminder to others to consider registering in time to take advantage of the early bird registration discounts. Since I'm blogging on www.unicon.net, I'll go ahead and highlight some of the sessions being given by Uniconers.

On uPortal

On the morning of Sunday March 7th, Drew Wills will be giving a pre-conference seminar on migrating between uPortal versions, that is, on automation for migrating data and configuration across upgrades. He's been at the center of adding data migration automation capabilities to uPortal and he's given popular and well-regarded seminars along these lines at past Jasig conferences. I'll be giving a seminar on implementing uPortal anew during the same time slot, so between us we have seminars for cover current adopters looking to automate their upgrade path and new adopters as well.

Jen Bourey, a Unicon consultant and a member of the Jasig uPortal project steering committee, will give a presentation on uPortal 3.2 and beyond and a post-conference seminar on uPortal Mobile Development.

On CAS

In the afternoon of Sunday March 7th, Adam Rybicki will be giving a seminar on implementing the Central Authentication Service.

Adam will also be presenting on Extending CAS Using Spring Web Flow, something he's successfully done on a couple recent CAS consulting projects. Use of Spring Web Flow is part of what makes CAS such a powerful and flexible platform for implementing user authentication experience use cases and I heartily approve of Scott Battaglia's having updated the version of Spring Web Flow in use for the next CAS release.

I'll be presenting on ClearPass, a CAS extension allowing secure release of end user credentials to selected applications for credential replay. Credential replay is an unfortunate approach to have to take, but for some integrations it's still the most feasible path forward, and ClearPass allows continuing to use that legacy approach while implementing CAS single sign on and even delegated authentication for less benighted portions of the enterprise authentication landscape.

I'll also be presenting on Multi-factor Authentication with CAS.

On Portlet Development

Cris Holdorph will be giving a seminar on writing JSR 286 portlets the afternoon of Sunday March 7th.

Jen Bourey will be presenting on Rich Portlet Development, mostly about rich user experiences in portlets.

On Other Topics

Cris Holdorph and Lennard Fuller will be giving a presentation on adding performance testing and analysis to software development projects. I had the pleasure of previewing some of this presentation when Cris presented it internally at Unicon the other day.

Cris Holdorph will also be presenting on Clustering Made Easier: Using Terracotta with Hibernate and/or EHCache.

Lennard Fuller will also be presenting on CMIS: The New Web Services Standard for Enterprise Content Management.

John Lewis, Unicon's chief software architect and a member of the Jasig board of directors, will be presenting on How to Open Source Your Project with Jasig.

Drew Wills will be co-presenting with Scott Battaglia (of Rutgers, lead CAS developer) on Surveying the JVM Language Landscape and will be giving a post-conference seminar specifically on Groovy.

Hope to see you at Jasig 2010

Early bird conference-only registration for people not fortunate enough to be affiliated with a Jasig member institution is priced at a strikingly affordable $600 dollars. This early bird pricing is available through the end of January.

I hope to see you at the conference.

Full disclosure

Jasig waives the main conference registration fee for presenters of seminars at the Jasig conference. I am such a presenter at Jasig 2010.