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The key is community: Why Blackboard’s changing strategy won’t change the landscape… much

cdcoppola — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 00:23:06 +0000

LDAP CAS Implementation

leo — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 04:37:21 +0000

OverviewThis is a companion post to Rice KIM LDAP and Embedded Apache DS.CAS is the phenominal JA-SIG single sign-on (SSO) web application that Kuali is standardizing with. We already know of ways to implement LDAP with Kuali applications. Once you get your KIM integration, then where do you? You still need your users in the KRIM_PRNCPL_T table if you want to login. How do you setup CAS to know about your LDAP directory service?

Rice KIM LDAP and Embedded Apache DS

leo — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 23:06:47 +0000

OverviewWhile KIM supports LDAP Integration for identity management, it is difficult for developers to work in a similar environment to that the code will actually be deployed to. For example, if my DEV, TST, STG, and PRD environments all connect to LDAP and there is a problem with the actual LDAP mappings, it is a hassle to test or develop a fix because my local development environment does not connect to LDAP. I would have to configure it to do that. Once it did, I probably do not have the same datasource that is being used. How can I test?

Kuali Coeus Overlay Reference Implementation

leo — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 06:54:51 +0000

OverviewJust as I did with KFS Overlay Reference Implementation Screencasts, I created some screencasts and a GitHub project for a reference implementation for Kuali Coeus. The motivation for this mostly came from a thread on kc.technical.collab@kuali.org about Maven Overlay Docs.

KFS Overlay Reference Implementation Screencasts

leo — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 18:44:30 +0000

OverviewI created a screencast to illustrate the simplicity of downloading the kfs overlay reference implementation project from github, building the packages, installing them, and running them. The goal here is to get people downloading, using, and modifying quickly. Feel free to checkout the distribution and fork it, change things, and communicate back with me on your findings. The ScreencastWhat Doesn't WorkNow that you've seen it function in a single specific use case, let me throw out which use cases do not work.

UPDATE: Building Applications with the Kuali POMs

leo — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 07:07:56 +0000

OverviewI have updated the kfs-public POM by overriding the kuali section. Since you cannot actually remove anything out of it, I have overridden the repositories so they will point to maven central instead of nexus. Upon installation, it looks something like this:This eliminates the problem with the AWS security. Also, kudos to Travis Schneeberger for the suggestion of pointing to Maven Central. My inclination was actually to point to a local repository. After deliberating on it, I realized that people would probably not be too happy about that.

KFS Overlay Reference Implementation on GitHub

leo — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 18:41:21 +0000

As a follow-up to the Mavenized KFS Distribution Available on GitHub post, this is a real world solution on setting up an overlay. It is also a good example of how you would structure your project to do so. I intended this for download, so that people can have a glimpse of a reference implementation example of a KFS overlay.The ProjectFirst, you can find the KFS Overlay Reference Implementation on GitHub.

Building Applications with the Kuali POMs

leo — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 23:56:06 +0000

OverviewThe Kuali Rice team has been investing a lot recently into Maven standardization. That is, bringing projects together more cohesively via Maven. It is not just to have all projects using Maven, but also using the same plugins, licensing, dependencies and so on with Maven. The best solution as of late is one Mother POM. In Maven, it's conveniently named a parent POM. Rice has two right now (Kuali and Kuali Common). Documentation to these can conveniently be found on the Kuali Foundation Wiki.

Explanation of kfs-maven Artifacts

leo — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 18:45:25 +0000

OverviewThis is for people that have been following the Mavenized KFS Distribution Available on GitHub post. I want to explain a bit about the artifacts how how to use your maven kfs distribution. Once you have it cloned and building, you will probably wonder what to do with the artifacts.ArtifactsHere is a table of all the available artifacts and what they're there for:

Mavenized KFS Distribution Available on GitHub

leo — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 08:27:41 +0000

IntroductionI have been getting a good deal of feedback lately about the Convert Your KFS Distribution to Maven post. I was really hoping the repository of the source would be made available publicly, but it was not. I decided that with some refinements I had been planning for the Maven/KFS distribution, I would release the next distribution publicly on GitHub.Now I have done so. You may not reach my new-and-improved Maven distribution of KFS 4.1.1 on GitHub. The official kfs-maven site can be found here.