HTCIA Atlantic Canada Chapter Conference 2010 wrap-up

Last week I attended the High Technology Criminal Investigation Association Atlantic Canada Chapter conference for 2010 here in St John's. The conference was widely attended by representatives from the local telco, government agencies, the RNC, RCMP, and private industry.

The keynote addresses this year were particularly interesting. Richard McDonald, from IBM, talked about Cloud Computing ("Safe and Secure?"). Earle Crane, from the Department of Homeland Security, discussed security and advanced persistent threats. Jim Robbins, President of EWA Canada, discussed trusting the code in the software and devices we purchase. And finally, John Weight, Microsoft, discussed building confidence in the Cloud.

The conference provided several streams of talks, including discussions of Privacy, Cloud Computing, Threat & Risk Management, and Law Enforcement/Forensics. I attempted to sit in on as many different streams as I could but such is the nature of these kinds of gatherings - you can only absorb a small fraction of the talks.

If you missed the conference, and are in the St John's area, you may be interested in a security related seminar next month at Memorial University. Sgt. Jacques Boucher will be presenting "The Internet Made Me Do It" at the Department of Computer Science, Memorial University (Room EN-1052 @ 2pm) on November 22, 2010. Please see the linked page for the talk's abstract.

Apache Karaf roadmap

To help illuminate where Apache Karaf is heading over the next few months I thought I'd write up a brief post on our current roadmap. We are planning to have at least two more releases before then end of 2010.

Apache Karaf 2.1.1:

A maintenance release which will only include bug fixes to the 2.1.0 release. No new features should be included.

Apache Karaf 2.2.0:

This release will include all the new features, fixes, and other improvements introduced to trunk since the 2.1.0 release. 

We have not set target dates for each release, so I can not comment on what specific fixes or features will appear in either. However, I can indicate that work is underway :)

If you have particular issues discovered in 2.1.0 that you'd like to see addressed in 2.1.1 please feel free to vote up issues in our project issue tracker.

I'll have to start icookbythesea soon...

The key to maintaining a healthy build environment, really any systems infrastructure, is in keeping your systems admin contented. The best way is to keep their stomach happy, and to provide them with plenty of bandwidth ;) So I present this week's dinner - Rosemary/Thyme Lamb chops, lemon potatoes, and BBQ Na'an bread with Tzatziki yogurt. The dessert was a simple too tall strawberry short cake with vanilla frosting.

 

The clean up work at home is still going... seems to never end. Working now on figuring out how and what will need to be remediated. Fun times. Any who, will keep posting pics from the road until I get back to some normalcy.