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USER_IDs, EIDs, Providers, Oh My!
I received feedback that the following notes on Sakai's LDAP provider behavior would be worthwhile archiving more visibly than on the Sakai dev list, so I'm reprinting them here. See here for the context of the entire thread.
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Dan McCallum
"Enterprise Portals: Reborn and Transformed by the Social Web"
EContent Magazine has published an interesting article "Enterprise Portals: Reborn and Transformed by the Social Web". Provides some good insights into what various people think is the future for enterprise portals.
Note: The article is not directly accessible to the public, but the link above is to a reprint on the Sapient web site.
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John Lewis
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.
Blog Disclaimer: Opinions expressed in my blog are just that: opinions. Don’t have a fit if you think they’re wrong — post your comment or write your own blog.
Video: Shibboleth Guided Tour
Please enjoy this video from a recent webinar in which I provide a guided tour of Shibboleth.
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John Lewis
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.
Blog Disclaimer: Opinions expressed in my blog are just that: opinions. Don’t have a fit if you think they’re wrong — post your comment or write your own blog.
Cernunnos 1.1.0 Released: Better Resource Handling, Better Integration with Maven & Spring
The newest release of Cernunnos -- version 1.1.0 -- is here.
Your Blogmaster:
Andrew Wills
Congratulations to Eric Dalquist and uPortal on the release of uPortal 3.1.0
Re-posting in this blog Eric Dalquist's announcement of the release of uPortal 3.1.0 general audience release. I'd especially like to thank and congratulate Uniconers Jen Bourey, Gary Thompson, and Drew Wills for their contributions to this release.
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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.
Developing Light-weight AJAX Utility Portlets for uPortal
Discussion in the uPortal IRC channel recently centered on the potential for developing a set of general utility portlets to be distributed with uPortal. Such portlets might include things like search and maps, a calculator, a dictionary, and other small, useful components.
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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.
Books About Java
Someone recently asked me for book recommendations for getting started with Java. In this blog post I share a few book recommendations.
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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.
Carl Jacobson Named CIO at U Delaware
Great news! Carl Jacobson has been named the CIO at U Delaware. Carl was the prime mover behind uPortal and obtained the initial Mellon grant for its development. He co-founded Jasig and was a founding board member of Sakai. Congratulations, Carl!
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John Lewis
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.
Blog Disclaimer: Opinions expressed in my blog are just that: opinions. Don’t have a fit if you think they’re wrong — post your comment or write your own blog.
What Google Gets Out Of The "Summer of Code"
I am excited that Jasig is preparing applications for the Google Summer of Code this year. I think this will be a great opportunity to get some new work done on uPortal and CAS and to bring some new people into the developer community.
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John Lewis
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.
Blog Disclaimer: Opinions expressed in my blog are just that: opinions. Don’t have a fit if you think they’re wrong — post your comment or write your own blog.
Congratulations to Eric Dalquist and uPortal on the release of uPortal 3.1.0 RC1
I write to extend my congratulations to Jasig, Eric Dalquist (uPortal project release engineer and lead developer), and the uPortal project on the first (and quite possibly last) release candidate of uPortal 3.1.0.
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.
