Blogs
CAS and Shibboleth Co-existing in Mutually Beneficial Harmony
In this blog post I discuss use of CAS and Shibboleth in harmony.
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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.
uPortal Roadmap Webinar
I'm looking forward to the uPortal roadmap webinar tomorrow (Thursday December 17th 2009).
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.
Enterprise Portals as the User Interface of a Services Oriented Architecture
I had the privilege of presenting a Webinar today entitled "Enterprise Portals as the User Interface to Services Oriented Architecture" and in this post I share the slides.
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.
Ten Minute Introduction to Jasig's Central Authentication Service
Here I share a YouTube video and PowerPoint slides for a ten minute introduction to Jasig Central Authentication Service.
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.
Open Source Reception at EDUCAUSE
Every once in a while, open source software really is free as in free beer. I hope to see you at the Open Source Reception at EDUCAUSE 2009, where I hope there will be free beer.
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.
Massively Multiplayer Open Source Authentication
In which I note Blizzard Entertainment's World of Warcraft's historical use of the Jasig Central Authentication Service and Sony's current use of 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.
Cooperative Development for CAS progress on updating ClearPass
In which I share thoughts on Cooperative Development for CAS's progress to date in updating ClearPass and suggest attractive development issues for the program to next take on.
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.
Congratulations to Jen Bourey on becoming the Jasig Portlet Release Manager
In which I write to congratulate Jen Bourey on her election to the uPortal Steering Committee and on her becoming the volunteer Jasig Portlet Release Manager.
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.
Congratulations to Jasig CAS on the release of CAS 3.3.3
In which I congratulate the Jasig CAS project on the release of CAS Server 3.3.3, reposting the release announcement in order to draw more attention to it.
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.
Building and deploying CAS with the ClearPass extension
In this post I describe step by step how to build and deploy the ClearPass extended version of CAS with support for exposing the end user's password to authorized applications.
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.
