Unicon Technologists Deliver Presentations at the Jasig Spring 2010 Conference, “Ten Years of Open Source Innovation”
Seventeen Informative Sessions on uPortal, CAS, and Development Technologies
Phoenix, AZ – February 3, 2010 -- Unicon, Inc., the leading provider of open source IT consulting services for the higher education market, will be presenting and participating in a total of sixteen technical seminars and presentations at the upcoming Jasig Spring 2010 Conference, “Ten Years of Open Source Innovation,” being held in San Diego, California, March 7-10, 2010. Seven Unicon associates, including Chief Software Architect John Lewis and Vice President of Technology Adam Rybicki, will deliver presentations on a variety of subjects pertaining to open source application deployment, development, and support for the online campus. This year’s conference celebrates Jasig’s 10th anniversary, and will be a vital open source event for the higher education industry in 2010 with participation by leading open source communities such as Bedework, CAS, Fluid, Internet2, Kuali, OpenCast, OWASP, and uPortal.
Keynote Speakers and Unicon Presentations at Jasig Spring 2010 Conference
Keynote speakers from open source communities in the higher education industry will be present, including the Vice President for Policy and Analysis at Educause, the President of the Apache Software Foundation, and the Founder of the Spring Framework Project. Unicon’s presentations include introductory to advanced topics and real-world examples from the latest open source projects implemented at leading universities.
Note: for full descriptions of the presentations, see the Jasig Spring 2010 Conference Program.
Sunday, March 7, 2010
Title: uPortal Migration: 3.0 and Beyond
Presenter: Andrew Wills, Software Architect, Unicon, Inc.
Title: Developing JSR 286 Portlets
Presenter: Cris Holdorph, Software Architect, Unicon, Inc.
Title: Implementing CAS
Presenter: Adam Rybicki, Vice President of Technology, Unicon, Inc.
Monday, March 8, 2010
Title: Annotation-Based Spring Portlet MVC
Presenter: John Lewis, Chief Software Architect, Unicon, Inc.
Title: Extending CAS Using Spring Web Flow
Presenter: Adam Rybicki, Vice President of Technology, Unicon, Inc.
Title: Adding Performance Testing to a Software Development Project
Presenters: Cris Holdorph, Software Architect, and Lenard Fuller, Software Architect, Unicon, Inc.
Title: uPortal 3.2 and Beyond
Presenter: Jennifer Bourey, Software Developer, Unicon, Inc.
Title: CMIS: The New Web Services Standard for Enterprise Content Management
Presenters: Lennard Fuller, Software Architect, Unicon, Inc.
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Title: Clustering Made Easy: Using Terracotta with Hibernate and/or EHCache
Presenter: Cris Holdorph, Software Architect, Unicon, Inc.
Title: ClearPass – A CAS Extension Allowing Credential Replay
Presenter: Andrew Petro, Software Developer, Unicon, Inc.
Title: Rich Portlet Development
Presenter: Jennifer Bourey, Software Developer, Unicon, Inc.
Title: How to Open Source Your Project with Jasig
Presenter: John Lewis, Chief Software Architect, Unicon, Inc.
Title: Multi-factor Authentication with CAS
Presenter: Andrew Petro, Software Developer, Unicon, Inc.
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Title: Surveying the JVM Language Landscape
Presenters: Scott Battaglia, Rutgers University, and Andrew Petro, Software Developer, Unicon, Inc.
Title: uPortal Mobile Development
Presenter: Jennifer Bourey, Software Developer, Unicon, Inc.
Title: Introduction to Groovy
Presenters: Andrew Wills, Software Architect, and Lennard Fuller, Software Architect, Unicon, Inc.
About Unicon
Unicon, Inc. specializes in IT consulting services including the delivery of technology solutions and support, systems integration, and software engineering. The company effectively utilizes open source frameworks, applications, and software to provide enterprise-level portal, collaboration, learning, messaging, and authentication solutions for higher education institutions worldwide. Unicon is a Sakai Commercial Affiliate for the open source Collaboration and Learning Environment, a commercial affiliate of the uPortal open source Web portal initiative, and a member of the Oracle Partner Network. Unicon strives to base its solutions on standards-based, open source technology for increased productivity and reduced costs.
