Crowd Authentication Server Review
I started working with the Crowd application for single sign-on and identity management about four months ago. I have been quite impressed with it. The application allows your applications to use a centralized repository for user authentication. Additionally, it provides an OpenID service for your same users as well.
The Crowd application is [...]
VPSLand Review
I was in need of some external facing virtualized servers and ran across the website at http://vpsland.com. I was skeptical at first as the specs on the website said nothing about them running on ESX servers. But I decided to give it a try. I tried both Fedora virtualized servers and a [...]
Running Multiple Instances of Tomcat
There are times when you need to run multiple instances of Tomcat on the same Linux based server. My need came as I tried to run Jive Clearspace, Jira, and Bamboo all on the same instance of Tomcat in different directories. The first thing I noticed was that the logs were cluttered with [...]
Blog Advertising Store Review
In the quest to find the best solution for getting targeted links in the blogsphere, I decided to try the services of blogadvertisingstore.com.
There were two hooks that got me.
1. I was able to specify multiple forms of backlinks that the bloggers would use.
2. The Commissions that Blogadvertising Store was going [...]
Integrating Crowd with Subversion
This blog post is not intended to replace the installation documentation put out by Atlassian. Instead, I would like to share information about the integration and installation that you may find useful.
Crowd is a single sign on server application that allows multiple web applications to log on using a centralized user repository. The [...]