Monday, July 29, 2002

OpenACS developments It looks like my VMWare distribution of OpenACS is getting some use: http://openacs.org/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id05Qm&topic_id&to pic=OpenACS However, it looks like I forgot to set PostgreSQL to start on boot. :-(. Easy enough to fix. I had some down-time last week ( a few rainy days at the lake ), and I completed the mssql server data model port of OpenACS, modulo some testing and packaging. I'm going to finish converting the unit test scripts and make sure the whole thing passes before releasing. After that, I need to figure out how to run OpenACS against the data model. My choices are: nsodbc nsfreetds both of which will let aolserver talk to SQL Server, but only the nsodbc driver works on Windows right now. I have a feeling that whatever I end up using will require the assistance of a C hacker. 8:20:54 AM      comment []  trackback []

OpenSAML 1.0 http://middleware.internet2.edu/opensaml/ They've released an open source implementation of their Security Assertion Markup Language, which Hailstorm/Palladium is supporting. It would be great if an intermediary like OpenSAML were in charge of interoperability between identity management architectures, especially between OSS and commercial-ware. You can't really trust the vendors to do it on their own (c.f. Kerberos). 7:57:38 AM      comment []  trackback []

Spyonit shuttering? http://www.spyonit.com/Home I *really* like(d) this service... Infominder gives better reports, but neither of them consistently check the pages I'm interested in. I think it's time to look at freshmeat and/or roll my own notification service. 7:57:37 AM      comment []  trackback []

XNS gets free Hot on the heels of the Liberty Alliance release, XNS gets it's act in gear to finally release their 1.0 spec, after almost two years of patent wrangling. http://www.digitalidworld.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sidy&mode=chrono&order=0 This was a promising technology that promptly died due to legal issues. I'm hoping it can overcome that inertia, because it still looks really cool. Identity management that leans towards client control and p2p is the way to go, IMO. 7:57:37 AM      comment []  trackback []

Cloudmark Week 2.5 Not one single annoying spam in over two weeks. Cloudmark reports: 1250 Emails checked 140 Spam caught I've been thinking of how to get this filtering technology to work with Mozilla/Mail or Evolution. It should be pretty easy to run parallel mail clients (Outlook and an OSS one) to use Outlook's COM or MAPI API to get a list of all senders in the Spam folder, and delete/move them on the other clients. It defeats the virus avoidance excuse for not using Outlook, but I think it's a temporary solution until Cloudmark gets around to supporting those platforms (or vice versa). 7:57:37 AM      comment []  trackback []

What's new in Curl 2.0: http://www.curl.com/html/products/greycliff/ide20/whatsnew20.jsp newer, smaller, faster, yada yada. No database access API, no synchronization framework. sigh. 7:57:35 AM      comment []  trackback []