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Early Bird Registration for InCommon ACAMP 2010 ends Monday

By Andrew Petro
May 7, 2010

Early bird registration for InCommon ACAMP ends Monday May 10th. I hope to see you there.

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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.

Jasig 2010 ClearPass Presentation

By Andrew Petro
April 23, 2010

My Jasig 2010 presentation on ClearPass was recorded, and the recording is now available on ScreenCast.com and on Vimeo.

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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 Your Project (with Jasig)

By John Lewis
March 10, 2010

Here is the full screencast from my Jasig 2010 Conference Session on "Open Sourcing Your Project (with Jasig)". Enjoy!

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John A. Lewis is the Chief Software Architect for Unicon Inc, the leading independent provider of open source training, consulting, and support in higher education. John is an 18 year veteran of the software engineering industry. His passions are large-scale enterprise architecture, open-source technologies, and agile software development methods. John has been working heavily in Java-based enterprise information portals since 2001 and is the lead developer of Spring Portlet MVC, which provides Java Portlet support in the Spring Framework. He is active in several higher education open source communities, including uPortal and Sakai. He also serves on the Jasig Board of Directors and the Sakai Product Council.

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Annotation-Based Spring Portlet MVC

By John Lewis
March 9, 2010

Here is the full screencast from my Jasig 2010 Conference Session on Annotation-Based Spring Portlet MVC. Enjoy!

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John A. Lewis is the Chief Software Architect for Unicon Inc, the leading independent provider of open source training, consulting, and support in higher education. John is an 18 year veteran of the software engineering industry. His passions are large-scale enterprise architecture, open-source technologies, and agile software development methods. John has been working heavily in Java-based enterprise information portals since 2001 and is the lead developer of Spring Portlet MVC, which provides Java Portlet support in the Spring Framework. He is active in several higher education open source communities, including uPortal and Sakai. He also serves on the Jasig Board of Directors and the Sakai Product Council.

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3 hour Online Jasig CAS seminar on Sunday March 7th for $150

By Andrew Petro
March 1, 2010

Jasig is offering Adam Rybicki's 3-hour CAS implementation seminar as an online seminar on Sunday March 7th 2010 for a $150 registration fee.

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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.

Transcript of JHU uPortal Demo YouTube Video (Part 1)

By Andrew Petro
February 27, 2010

I took a few moments to write up a transcript of the audio from the recent Johns Hopkins University uPortal demo featured in the February 2010 uPortal Community call and I'm sharing that transcript in this blog post.

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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.

December 2009 uPortal Roadmap Webinar Available

By Jennifer Bourey
February 23, 2010

Archived audio and slides from the December 2009 uPortal Roadmap Community call is now available on Slideshare.

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Jennifer Bourey

Jen Bourey is a software developer at Unicon, Inc. and has five years of experience developing for portals and learning management platforms. She is passionate about open source contribution, high quality software, and friendly user interfaces.

Jasig Calendar Portlet Updates

By Jennifer Bourey
February 16, 2010

The Jasig Calendar Portlet has been updated to provide a new user interface and several backend improvements.

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Jennifer Bourey

Jen Bourey is a software developer at Unicon, Inc. and has five years of experience developing for portals and learning management platforms. She is passionate about open source contribution, high quality software, and friendly user interfaces.

Jasig 2010 Identity Management Track

By Andrew Petro
January 25, 2010

In which I describe the opportunities to consume identity management sessions at the Jasig 2010 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.

Jasig 2010 Early Bird Registration

By Andrew Petro
January 14, 2010

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.

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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.