Montag, 29. Juli 2002

Steve: Thanks to OSCON I now have a friend in Canada, or more exactly in New Brunswick - correct Steve? Anyway we had a great time hanging out and inventing geekchalking. I hope we can link up one day - maybe even manage a visit? BTW the highest point in New Brunswick is Mount Carleton! How far is New Brunswick from say Detroit (my sister lives there). And there's always next years OSCON or or ..

Congratulations Sam FYI: tomorrow, I will have been at IBM for 21 years.Ê I spent nearly a decade working on AD/Cycle Information Model and Repository tasks.Ê One customer I workedÊwith during that period you may have heard of: GAD. Sam told me this when we chatted at OSCON. Strangely enough I worked at Nixdorf on ATMs from 1988-1991 and GAD was one of our major customers. The GAD is the IT center for the German "Volksbanken" in the region of Northern Germany . It was great meeting Sam at last and I hope that wasn't the last time! He even sat in on my Cocoon presentation - and didn't leave early....I don't think so anyway :-)

Phil Windley comments on my talk at OSCON I asked a question about why they didn't just use HTTP authentication, instead of roling a separate authentication function inside Cocoon. I didn't get an answer that was satisfying. (via Ugo). If I remember correctly I answered that we wanted it to be possible to integrate exisiting (application) user-databases, that Cocoon can also run without a Web server and that it would be relatively easy to integrate the HTTP authentication into the user authentication. Most of the portal scenarios we have so far come accross have been to integrate user data stored in say an oracle database or via LDAP. Ugo has some other reasons I didn't come up with fast enough.

Kai's Basel II Weblog (German) is growing slowly with information on this emerging European banking standard.

OSCON Pictures up: Still very jetlagged I have uploaded some pictures from OSCON here. Enjoy.