Dmitry Sotnikov, my colleague and friend announced on his blog that he has left Quest to join a very-very cool start up called Jelastic. I had the great fortune to work with Dmitry on a number of cool projects at Quest such as our AD Bridge and our my teams AD PowerShell Commandlets. Check out [...]
Apple http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs C http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Ritchie LISP http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/24/creator-of-lisp-john-mccarthy-dead-at-84/
You have to be impressed by this guys life – http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/05/us/obit-steve-jobs/index.html?iref=BN1&hpt=hp_t1.
Last week development released the 6.7.3663 update for ActiveRoles Server. Included in the update are some generic fixes as you would expect, but there is also a set of updates for a long standing limitation that only Internet Explorer worked properly. This update adds multi-browser support and allows the ActiveRoles web interface to be accessed from [...]
A friend of mine is working on NFC and I wondered if my Android device would support it – well it didn’t but there is a new version of the phone in development that was just tested by the FCC for NFC compatibility. http://www.nfcrumors.com/08-17-2011/is-the-htc-incredible-s-the-next-google-wallet-enabled-nfc-phone-it-just-passed-through-the-fcc/
The ActiveRoles Marketprovides additional functional policies that may be downloaded and imported into ActiveRoles Server. An example of the typs of policies on the market is the Group Ownership Reassignment Policythat transfers ownership of a group to a manager when the original owner is deprovisioned. What defines an Extensible Policy was expanded in the 6.7 release [...]
Symplified provides a SAML based solution built for SSO to SaaS applications. Other well known players in this space are Ping Identity and Microsoft with their ADFS solution. http://www.techrockies.com/symplified-raises-9m-more/s-0033073.html
Oracle announced an entry into the online productivity market joining Google Apps and Microsoft Office 365. Pricing and availability has not yet been announced but it is expected to be in line with other competitors in this space. http://www.oracle.com/us/products/applications/open-office/cloud-office-170206.html
ADFS 2.0 (Active Directory Federation Services) was released to the public May 5th, 2010 and announced on the “Geneva team blog.” You can download the package from the Microsoft download site and install for free on Windows Server. Stuart Kwan gives a brief overview of ADFS 2.0 capabilities in a new channel 9 video produced [...]
While I was in college I worked summers for a glass company. My job was in the engineering drafting department where I drafted furnace parts, conveyor belts and paint bands that hides the goo they use to stick your windshield to your car. During this time American automakers struggling cope with the explosion of Japanese [...]
