I haven’t been updating this place since my return from vacation.

I’ve quite busy, mostly preparing the presentation for the 1st International LDAPv3 Conference.

I’m about to head to the airport and will try to post some details of the conference from Cologne (Germany).

There are a few other news in the pipe regarding Java ES 5 Update 1 availability, and thus Directory Server Enterprise Edition 6.2.

More in the coming days…

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I have been a little bit irregular in my postings to this blog through the year, but better in the past months.

However, this is vacation time for me, and I don’t want to bother you with pictures of my family on our journey to Spain… So there will be no post here for the next 3 weeks.

Enjoy the silence… I will 🙂

A must see for whoever lives a continuous email inbox nightmare.

I’ve been trying to improve my productivity with GTD, following the Zero inbox trick. It does work and help a lot.

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I was out this week-end and when I came back yesterday evening, the expected brown box was waiting for me in the mailbox. So I opened it religiously and took a long look at the cover. And I put down the book on the pile of books that I will be taking with me for my vacations, begining of August. Oh yes, I am curious to see what will happen to Harry and how the story is ending, but I’m not that desperate that I can’t wait for a couple of weeks. At least then I will have the time to read chapters after chapters with limited distraction and interruptions. A good way to forget about the office and dive into vacation mode… I’m looking forward to it.

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I’ve just received the confirmation that my proposal for an OpenDS presentation at the 1st International LDAPv3 Conference has been accepted.

The list of all presentations has been published. There will be a good representation of the LDAP community with most open source projects, commercial products and Ph.D. candidates.

I hope to see many of you in Cologne (Köln) early September.

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Today marks my 12th anniversary with Sun.

12 years is a long time, and probably more than I anticipated initially when I joined the company in 1995.

But I’ve been and I am still having a lot of fun, working on a pretty successful product, in a beautiful environment and with very smart people.

Sun Directory Server was started in the Grenoble Engineering Center -GEC- (called International Center for Network Computing – ICNC – at that time) in 1996. The team has evolved a lot with the Sun / Netscape Alliance, the merge with the Innosoft Directory team and all of the yearly re-organizations. But the largest part of Directory Services Engineering remains in Grenoble (well a few kilometers outside Grenoble, in Montbonnot more specifically) where we continue developing both DSEE and OpenDS.

Meanwhile Sun’s facilities have evolved as well. In a celebration mood for this anniversary, here are all the buildings I’ve been working in for the last 12 years.

I think I’ll be around for a few more years, as I’ve found a good balance between a highly motivating working environment (and project), and quality of life in the Alps…

Technorati Tags: directory-server, GEC, Sun

I’ve heard so many good things about Ecto, that I’ve decided to give it a try…

Still 20 days before the evaluation license expires.

I’ve heard so many good things about Ecto, that I’ve decided to give it a try…

Still 20 days before the evaluation license expires.

I’ve heard so many good things about Ecto, that I’ve decided to give it a try…

Still 20 days before the evaluation license expires.

I’ve heard so many good things about Ecto, that I’ve decided to give it a try…

Still 20 days before the evaluation license expires.

 

This is my OpenID as provided by Sun. A cool service leveraging OpenDS for the storage of identities and sessions tokens, as proven by the Universal ID (which is the DN of my entry in the LDAP Directory Server) in the picture below.

 

JavaOne is over and once again it has been so busy during the week that I did not have the time to turn on the laptop and post here.

On the OpenDS booth, we’ve been pretty busy, explaining the project, its goals and the two demos that we’ve built on top of the directory server: an OpenID Identity Provider and an Atom / APP server. Our 0.8 release got some interest as we’ve seen a serious increase in our downloads and page views.

The Atom / APP server will be released in open-source as a sub-project of OpenDS.

The OpenID identity provider specific code for OpenDS will be contributed back to openid.dev.java.net project.

I’ve been able to attend a few sessions:

• "JMX : who does what ?" brilliantly presented by Eamonn McManus and Jean-Francois Denise.
• "High-Performance Java Technology in a Multicore World"
• "Garbage-Collection-Friendly Programming"
• "Beyond blogging: feeds in action" by Dave Johnson.
• "Identity 2.0 in Java"

The fun part of JavaOne is always James Gosling general sessions on Toys and fun stuff, and Java Real Time got a good share of it with Dancing Robots, an industrial-strength Robot arm and even an helicopter.

I’m going to take a few days off to recover from the May madness but not too long as I have to finalize the presentation that I will be giving on OpenDS at Jazoon 2007.

It was a busy day yesterday for the first CommunityOne. 

 

The OpenDS, OpenSSO, OpenID booth drew lot of attention yesterday, with demos of an OpenID identity provider, an Atom Publishing Protocol server both leveraging OpenDS for storage, retrieval and authentication of users and blog posts.

We will be running the same demos every day of JavaOne in the Community Corner.

We also had a little bit of presence on stage as I did a presentation introducing OpenDS and Cool Stuff during the last session of the Glassfish track.

Staring on our booth yesterday:

• Trey Drake, Community leader for OpenDS
• Paul Bryan, contributor of the OpenID extension for OpenSSO
• Pat Patterson, OpenSSO and Identity guru.

 

Today is the real start of JavaOne with its set of announcements…  

 

I just arrived yesterday in San Francisco for a week full of events, starting with CommunityOne and the Glassfish Day and then JavaOne for the rest of the week.

I’m heading to the Moscone center now, and let’s the fun begin…

A view from my hotel room on my arrival.

Last week, flowers and trees were blossoming and we thought the spring had arrived. But the winter reminded us yesterday that it was not over yet. It snowed yesterday and today in Grenoble (even down in the valley for the first time this year).

This morning we woke up with a couple of inches of snow in the garden, but all the roads were cleared.

Here’s a picture of Grenoble Engineering Center as I arrived in the office this morning. No more snow on the ground, but the mountains around are covered. As the sun is supposed to reappear later this week, it might be a pretty good week-end of skiing 🙂