ForgeRock Community Blog Syndicate

I’m just back from a week of business trip to Mexico City. This was my first time in Mexico and I’ve heard all the rumors of it being a very dangerous city. I must say that I’ve seen a very very big city, vibrant, busy, with a lot of car trafic, but at no point I had any fear of being robbed or molested.

Two things have marked me during my stay. First, the city is very green. There are lots of trees, plants, flowers everywhere. All main avenues are borded by trees. It’s like mother nature is trying to tell us that she still exists despite the concrete and buildings.

The other thing is that at any time of the day or the night, there are people in the street, trying to earn a little bit of money, selling water, tissues or balloons.

The food was amazing. I enjoyed tacos, fresh fruits, some argentinian bife, jalapeños… Spicy, but not “mucho picante”. As well as beers like Victoria, Bohemia, Dox Equis, Modelo… And tequila of course !

Other photos from my trip are on Google+

By the way, we did work this week in Mexico.

Below is a photo of the screen as we’ve finished importing the customers’ data in OpenDJ (the data includes a few hundreds of groups, each averaging 40 000 members). I like this kind of performance number ! And I will probably say more about the hardware and settings to achieve that in a future post.

I shall say a big thank you to our partner in Mexico and Latin America : NoLogin. They’ve made everything to make my stay safe and comfortable, including with jalapeños and tequila !

I hope the few companies I visited will turn into customers. I’d like to come back again in Mexico. These 5 days have just gone to0 fast. And I’ve just started to get into lutta libre

Filed under: General Tagged: customers, ForgeRock, mexico, opendj, performance

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Articles and links

Action Identity has posted a couple of articles about ForgeRock products:

OpenDJ – Cost Effective Directory Solution Stacking ForgeRock OpenIDM up to the competition

Our friends at ProfiQ have posted an article describing how to use OpenDJ with Red-Hat Certificate System.

While talking about using OpenDJ with LDAP enabled applications, we try to maintain a page on OpenDJ documentation wiki with different tutorials on how to configure OpenDJ client applications.

Upcoming Events

ForgeRock will be present at the European Identity and Cloud Conference (EIC), April 17-20 in Munich.

We will also be participating to Devoxx France, April 18 to 20 in Paris. I will be co-speaking on Thursday 19, 7pm about Open Source in France, and will be available for individual meetings from Thursday morning to Friday end of afternoon. So, if you want to discuss about ForgeRock products or job opportunities, send me a mail, or leave a comment.

Filed under: General Tagged: conference, eic, events, ForgeRock, identity, opendj, opensource

Do you want to work with open source projects, build highly scalable identity middleware products, enjoy an international environment in a fast growing company and have fun ?

Check out our open positions.

We are seeking for a number of highly motivated and skilled software professionals to grow our engineering team, in Development, Quality and Technical writing. Our engineering teams are based in the Bay Area and Portland (USA), Bristol (UK) and Grenoble (France). We also have positions opened in Support, Sales, Account Management and Business Development.

A view of Grenoble, France. (c) January 2012, Ludovic Poitou.

Filed under: General Tagged: engineering, ForgeRock, grenoble, hiring, job, jobs

I’m a great fan of @gapingvoid, and if you haven’t done it yet, I’d recommend you read his books.

Most of the times, his cartoons are hitting so right on that you’d want to believe they’ve been made specially for you. Like this one:

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I’m sure most of you have seen this already… I’m posting it here for posterity !

ForgeRock secures $7M in a series A funding from Accel Partners

Let’s pop up the volume now !!!

I’ve been pretty busy at ForgeRock and haven’t found much time to post here. I’ll try to improve in the coming weeks. Meanwhile, I’d like to share a number of events in which I’m participating:

October 10, 11. LDAPCon in Heidelberg, Germany. I have a couple of presentations on the first day, and will be around until the end of the conference. If you want to meet and discuss, drop me a note.

October 26, 27, 28. fOSSA in Lyon, France. I will be attending the 3 days of the conference, presenting on Thursday 27th in the Development track. FOSSa is a free conference, that focuses on open source communities and projects, without any marketing spin. Register now.

November 8th, OpenIDM Summit in Darmstadt, Germany. I won’t be able to attend that summit, but it’s a great opportunity to learn more about ForgeRock open source Identity Management solutions.  Registration is already open, don’t wait !

We’re also working on a one day broader ForgeRock I3 Open Platform event, some time late November. I’ll let you know when it’s finalized, but I will be presenting OpenDJ along with the other ForgeRock product managers.

I hope to see you soon, here or there.

Filed under: General Tagged: conference, ForgeRock, identity, ldapcon, opensource

It’s been a few very busy weeks and I haven’t found the time to properly introduce a new member of the ForgeRock Grenoble Engineering Center : Mark Craig.

After Matthew who joined us as Architect for OpenDJ, Gary who is covering Quality Assurance for our products, Mark Craig has joined us on the 1st day of April to cover a very important part of any real Product : the documentation.

Mark comes from Sun Microsystems (and a few months at Oracle) where he has played different roles, from technical writer, to manager for all technical writers in the Identity Management BU, to managing the Directory Integration Team responsible for customer interactions and audits, performance benchmarks and assisting POCs. At ForgeRock, Mark goes back to his roots and things he enjoys and excels in: writing.

You can read Mark’s prose on his new blog (Margin Notes 2.0), OpenDJ blog or already on ForgeRock documentation wiki.

Filed under: General Tagged: docs, documentation, ForgeRock, openam, opendj, openidm, opensource, wiki, writer

The OpenDJ development team has its own blog now. You will find news, tips and other information about the Open source ldapv3 Directory services in Java.

On the same topic, there is now an aggregator of news feeds related to ForgeRock that has been set and you can read all the news from a single place : http://blogs.forgerock.org/aggregator/

Filed under: General Tagged: ForgeRock, identity, info, ldap, news, opendj

ForgeRock is exactly ONE year old today. As we’re a distributed and quite global company, we’re not going to blow the candle on the cake today. But I’m sure next time we meet, we’ll have one as nice as the one we had during our last company meeting in Faro, Portugal.

Also today is the first day at ForgeRock of Matthew Swift, as Architect for the OpenDJ project, growing the forces at the ForgeRock Grenoble Engineering Center. Matthew comes from Sun (Oracle) where he was leading the development of the core of OpenDS, as well as the LDAP Client API. He has been doing interesting work with regards to performances with the OpenDS server (he’s the one who provided me with nice numbers to present), and its reliability. Matthew has several years of experience building LDAP and Directory related products as well as Java development, for Sun, Bloomberg and Isode. He’s bringing his talent and energy back to the open source project and will help make OpenDJ an even stronger and better product.

I’m really delighted to work with Matthew again.

And what a great day today !

Filed under: General Tagged: directory, engineering, ForgeRock, java, ldap, opendj, opensource, performance

I know this is a temporary office, but this is one of the many reasons for ForgeRock France to be located near Grenoble.