Superpatterns

Reformatted from the ‘tell-a-friend’ email provided by the LIVESTRONG website:

I just joined Don Bowen’s dedication page at LIVESTRONG Action. Don Bowen inspired someone close to me to commit to end cancer, and now I’ve joined with them.

This page is a part of the world’s largest dedication book that LIVESTRONG Action will use to pressure world leaders to do more to fight cancer. If we can collect enough names in the book, it will have a real impact when Lance Armstrong delivers it – but we need more signatures.

Can you take a moment to add your name to the dedication page?

http://www.livestrongaction.org/dedication/don-bowen

Lance Armstrong recently dedicated his ride in the Tour de France to the fight against cancer. Now that the race is over, he’ll send this dedication book – with your signature – to world leaders and pressure them to make cancer a priority in their own countries. It’s our best chance to push for better treatment, more funding for cancer research and access to care for everyone around the world.

But if people like us don’t stand up, these leaders won’t pay attention.

Will you check out the dedication page? Don Bowen inspired me to take action – hopefully they’ll inspire you to do the same:

http://www.livestrongaction.org/dedication/don-bowen

Great idea, Melanie!!!

Presidente Lula visited FISL yesterday and received a rockstar reception. This is a crop of a picture I got by holding my camera in the air and snapping away:

Ludo got a much better one, but he cheated by standing on a chair

Wow – is it really over a month since my last blog entry? I guess that’s what happens when you get your head down into a project – in this case, building a demo for CommunityOne West and JavaOne 2009 to show off the latest OpenSSO features.

The demo brought together a number of existing Java technologies – the Java Persistence API (JPA), the Jersey implementation of JAX-RS (aka JSR 311) on both the client and server, and JavaFX – with some new aspects of OpenSSO – fine-grained authorization (aka entitlements), OAuth protocol support, and a JDBC data store. Briefly, the demo centered on a cellphone account management system delivered as a JavaFX rich Internet application (RIA) client and a (more or less) RESTful web service back-end, communication between them secured by OAuth.

I’ll be uploading source code for the demo client and server apps to the OpenSSO project in the next few days, as well as documenting how to bring up the demo environment. Watch this space for updates!

Just blogged by my good friend James McG:

The next meeting of the Hartford CT chapter of OWASP will occur on February 10th and will feature Mary Ruddy of Project Higgins along with Ramesh Nagappan of Sun.
OWASP events are 100% free to attend. Help spread the word…

Funnily enough, I’ve definitely met Mary, but I’m not sure I’ve ever met Ramesh. I won’t get to see him next week, either, since Hartford is about 3,000 miles away from me, but you definitely should, if you’re in the area…

Doc points to his Linux Journal entry in which he discusses Typealyzer, a site that, given your blog URL, divines its ‘personality’ as a Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). Of course, the first thing I did was to point it at myself, with somewhat surprising results. According to Typealyzer, Superpatterns is ISTJ – a ‘Duty Fulfiller‘. From Typealyzer:

The responsible and hardworking type. They are especially attuned to the details of life and are careful about getting the facts right. Conservative by nature they are often reluctant to take any risks whatsoever.

The Duty Fulfillers are happy to be let alone and to be able to work in their own pace. They know what they have to do and how to do it.

Now, I consistently test as ENTP – the ‘Visionary‘ – hands waving in the air in front of the whiteboard, the opposite of Superpatterns on every axis except ‘thinking’, in fact. I suppose Superpatterns must be where I reveal my quiet, methodical side

So, GlassFish V3 Prelude was announced last week, just as I was wrapping up my week in Tokyo (Liberty Alliance plenary meeting and Liberty Alliance Day 2008 – more on the latter in another blog entry), so I missed the blog fest. Oh well. Here’s my contribution anyway…

You’ll know by now that GlassFish v3 features a modular architecture based on OSGi, Rails/Grails support, RESTful web services and much, much more. Well, here in OpenSSO-land we particularly like v3’s embeddability and the fact that, as far as we’ve observed, OpenSSO ‘just works’ with no changes for v3. GlassFish v3 isn’t yet on the supported platform list for OpenSSO Enterprise 8.0, but we’ll be adding it in the near future.

Brad Cox, a regular in the OpenSSO IRC channel just came out with a line that, I think, perfectly encapsulates the spirit of open source at Sun:

“Sun used to sell bits. Now you’re selling trust. Interesting times!”

Interesting times indeed!

Prompted by Arun, here’s a Wordle for recent entries here at Superpatterns:

I just hit the ‘randomize’ button until I had a visually pleasing layout, then edited the color palette. I’m quite happy with the result…

Since I encouraged Susan to create a blog, and she actually went ahead and did it, I’m happy to be able to link to her… Susan McLucas is a tech writer looking for work. She has worked for companies ranging from startups to giants like Intel and Cisco – in fact, Cisco acquired the last startup she worked for, so she has experience of the acquisition process too.

As I mentioned in my recommendation on her LinkedIn profile:

I know Susan socially, rather than through her work, but I can attest that she is articulate and professional with a keen eye for detail. If we had any openings in my group here at Sun, I’d definitely hire her.

So, there you go, if you’re looking for a tech writer, contact Susan through her LinkedIn profile or leave a comment on her blog. And tell her I sent you

The play ‘Final Solutions‘ (trailer, pictures, more pictures), centers on Hindu-Muslim conflict in India, from partition to the current day. The play is presented by Naatak, a group of Indian theater enthusiasts here in the San Francisco Bay Area. The curtain raiser article in Indian Express gives much more background.

“OK – that’s very interesting, Pat, but what has it got to do with OpenSSO, identity, or anything I come here to read?” Well, OpenSSO development manager Ajay Sondhi appears in the play – in fact, you can just catch a glimpse of him at 0:29 in the trailer; Ajay is on the far left, with the yellow mask. If Ajay is involved, it’s clearly going to be good, so hop along to the Cubberley Theatre in Palo Alto – the last performance is this Friday, October 17th. Oh yeah, Ajay’s daughter, Kriti, has a lead role, but I don’t think she’s even filed a bug on OpenSSO, let alone committed code, so we’re wandering a little too far off topic with that information