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Andrew Petro

Chandler, AZ
33.302879, -111.840836
www.unicon.net/blog/3

About: Senior software developer at Unicon. Off-and-on uPortal release engineer. uPortal developer. uPortal steering committee. All-around well-meaning JA-SIG meddler. Employed by a JA-SIG Commercial Affiliate.

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What topics are you interested in? CAS, uPortal, Sakai, open source, community source, security, Spring
What topics are you an expert in? uPortal, CAS, Java, Spring

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Congratulations to the JASIG CAS Project on Release of Version 3.3

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I write to congratulate Scott Battaglia of Rutgers University and the other CAS developers on the successful release of JASIG CAS Server 3.3. read ...

Attractive Preferences Presentation uPortal 3

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uPortal 3 ships with an attractive UI for adding content to a page, adjusting the layout of a page, and moving portlets around within a defined lay...

uPortal Permissions and Error Handling

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In which I describe uPortal's support for permissioning, using access control on technical information about error conditions as an example. read more

JASIG Membership and Unicon Cooperative Support Membership

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Someone wrote to me asking the difference between JASIG institutional membership and Unicon Cooperative Support membership. I'm hoping it will hel...

Electronic learning leadership opportunity at Oxford

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I could not resist Adam Marshall's invitation to post in my blog news of an opening at Oxford University for an electronic learning leader. read more

uPortal as self-service portal platform

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Someone asked me recently whether I think uPortal is a good platform for delivering a self-service portal. My answer is that it is, and in this bl...

Millikin University Profiled in JASIG Newsletter

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I found the Millikin University community profile in the July 2008 JASIG newsletter to be a worthwhile and heartening read. read more

Introductory uPortal content on www.unicon.net

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This is just a roll up of a few links about uPortal on www.unicon.net. read more

Getting started with uPortal: Part 1

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Slides and narrative from 04 June 2008 presentation of Getting Started with uPortal (session 1) at the Portal 2008 conference hosted by Gettysburg ...

Getting started with uPortal: Part 1

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Slides and narrative from 04 June 2008 presentation of Getting Started with uPortal (session 1) at the Portal 2008 conference hosted by Gettysburg ...

Illinois State University posts uPortal job

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I'm pleased to see Illinois State University post a job description for a Portal Developer to work on their uPortal deployment and I take a moment ...

Congratulations to the Fluid project on release of Infusion 0.3

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I write to convey my public congratulations to the Fluid project on the release of Infusion 0.3. read more

How to make wiki markup your default Confluence editing mode

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This third post in a series on using Confluence effectively describes how to set wiki markup as your default editing format. read more

Wikis and email lists over conference calls

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In which I discuss my dislike of conference calls and preference for email lists and wikis for collaboration on open source projects. read more

Congratulations to Duffy Gillman, new Enterprise Systems Architect for Computing Infrastructure at the U of Arizona

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Congratulations to Duffy Gillman on his transition from Computing Manager for Learning Technologies to a new position as Enterprise Systems Archite...

Congratulations to Jenn Cummings of CONCENTRA Conference Management Services

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I write to convey my public congratulations to Jennifer Cummings on her promotion to the position of Vice President at CONCENTRA Conference Managem...

Sakai Summer of Code Opportunity

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Students have until March 31 April 7 to apply to staff the Sakai Project Google Summer of Code opportunity. read more

Early registration deadline fast approaching for JA-SIG 2008 conference

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A friendly reminder that early registration for JA-SIG 2008 ends Sunday March 23. read more

Congratulations to Eric Dalquist on uPortal 3.0.0 RC2

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In which I post just a few of the many words of thanks owed to Eric Dalquist, lead developer and release engineer of the uPortal 3.0 effort, on the...

CAS Consulting Services

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In which I congratulate the volunteers on the CAS project email lists for the many quality answers to questions about CAS in that forum and echo Sc...

uPortal at the April JA-SIG Conference

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I'm very pleased to see that the upcoming JA-SIG conference will have many seminars and presentations well-aligned with the uPortal project and the...

uPortal at the April JA-SIG Conference

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I'm very pleased to see that the upcoming JA-SIG conference will have many seminars and presentations well-aligned with the uPortal project and the...

Is the CAS "Ticket Granting Cookie" Secure?

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I recently answered a question on the CAS adopter discussion email list about whether and how the CAS "ticket granting cookie" (TGT) is secure. rea...

Email Lists for Discussion of Portlet Development

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JA-SIG has launched new email lists for collaboration on JSR-168 portlet development and implementation in the context of higher education. read more

CAS 3.1.2 fixes HTML injection vulnerability

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The recently released CAS 3.1.2 solves an HTML injection vulnerability for which standalone patching instructions are also available. Here I re-po...

Valentine's Day CAS dinner in Tempe, AZ

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The evening of Thursday 14 February 2008 in Tempe, AZ read more

DLM Intro Video

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In which I ease into slidecasting with a simple introduction to the DLM featureset. read more

JA-SIG Bookmarks Portlet overview

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In which I walk through highlights of the free and open source JSR-168-implementing bookmarks portlet shipping with uPortal 2.6. read more

Congratulations to the Fluid project on another milestone

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I wish to convey my quick congratulations to the Fluid Project on their achievement of visibility on the mailing list of the jQuery project. read more

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Matthew Rolf:

Issues to discuss? Let's see - why I have pluto issues when I try to start up tomcat after getting a successful build. :)