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Rutgers IdM Assessment

We released the Rutgers Identity Management Assessment today. It ended up being 65+ pages, but I think we did a pretty good job of incorporating both the inventory side, as well as some observations in our needs and capabilities. One thing that was interesting in the end was the timing and personalities. 2 months was ...

Rutgers UBC_Webmail Modifications

Rutgers UBC_Webmail Modifications
George Lindholm wrote: I’m starting some work on the UBC Webmail channel as part of our 2.0.3 to 2.5.x upgrade project. George — I’ve responded inline to get notes on the list, there’s a blog version of this online at: which has pictures which is probably much simpler to get a feel for what I’m ...

HCI @ Google

HCI @ Google
I found out about a talk by Josh Mittelman (HCI Engineer from Google) at Rutgers SCILS building, and talked a couple of coworkers from work into going. Josh covered some bits about Google’s approach to HCI and showed examples from some projects. Things to take away: Main Google UI metaphor is search results list, STRONG ...

Portlet Repository Protocol

Java.net has a project for a Portlet Repository Protocol that would let portals go out and retrieve pre-compiled binary portlets, which could then be installed and offered to users. I’ve thought for a while that portlets could do with Eclipse style add/update, and this seems like it could be promising foundational work to roll and ...

MythTV Box

So building a Tivo seemed like a great idea last month… Actually getting MythTV up and running in my desktop on Ubuntu with a PVR-150 went pretty smoothly.  Upgrading to Dapper seems to have broken the config, and getting the remote and VFD working has been painful.  Probably the best thing to do would be ...