SBI - No one can beat them

The guys who wrote the software should really be appreciated.

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My hundredth post :-)

A good article; with tips to secure your facebook profile.

Looking for Java Developers with 2+

My Company is looking for Java Developers with 2+ years of experience. Mail your resumes to me incase you are interested.

Wish you a Wonderful New Year

Typealyzer Report on my Blog

I was going thro Mark's Blog and found this interesting. This tool tries to provide a view of the author's thought process. I have got the following results.

A gist of what it said regarding my blog:

ESTJ - The Guardians

The organizing and efficient type. They are especially attuned to setting goals and managing available resources to get the job done. Once they´ve made up their mind on something, it can be quite difficult to convince otherwise. They listen to hard facts and can have a hard time accepting new or innovative ways of doing things.

The Guardians are often happy working in highly structured work environments where everyone knows the rules of the job. They respect authority and are loyal team players.

Adding Value by Jackson Shaw

Friends, a wonderful article.

A must watch: Economic Crisis & Why?

http://video. google.com/ videosearch? q=m+r+venkTESH&hl=en&emb=0&aq=f

Aligning CobiT® 4.1, ITIL ® V3 and ISO/IEC 27002 for Business Benefit

A good read ... download now and read it.

LDAP Search Filter

Search Tip: To retrieve all the users from a Domain who belong to a specific group use this query.

(&(objectclass=person)(memberOf=fulldn))

For two groups:
(&(objectclass=person)(|(memberOf=fulldn1)(memberOf=fulldn2)))

Use the same tip for multiple groups.

A must read - "Sun Loses Co-Founder to Start-Up"

The first few lines may not be of interest for many, however the entire article is an awesome read. Go ahead and read it.

One does - Remaining follow

If I am not wrong, the concept of Compliance manager was first started by Aveksa. Unfortunately they were a little late to the market and in the mean while Sailpoint already pitched in. Now we have one more big player ... guess who ....... its none other than Sun Microsystems.

They recently launched their Compliance Manager product. I think I will be able to do a comparative study soon and publish to my blog readers.

Congrats India

Picture Courtesy: www.isro.org

Congrats to all the Indians. A most awaited moment in the history of Indian Space Mission has just begun. Its not far when all the myths are broken and an Indian lands on Moon.

Kudos to ISRO and all its associates.

Good Read on LinkedIn

Came across an excellent article on how to use LinkedIN and the profits associated with it. Give a read.

US TSA's excellence in Identity Management

Read this article by Jackson.

News from Nous Infosystems

An interview of the CEO of Nous Infosystems on CIOL. Give a read.

Open SSO from SUN

May be I am one of those last guys in the world who is talking about this. However I was wondering about a simple concept. How long will Sun be a charity organization?

"Indiscipline" has taken over good part of the Software Industry

During my college days, the computer illiterates use to call me a good programmer and under that assumption I used to be in a hurry to keep the name going on. Once there was a task given and we were coding in C. As usual in my hurry to complete it first and faster, I have completed the program. There I press "CTRL+F9" just to see some garbage. Wondering what would have gone wrong I quickly checked the 100 lines of code. Couldn't find an error. My professor came in and started debugging, rather just checking the functionality. In the mean time I think good number of people in my class somehow completed the program.

Still my prof scrolling up and down ... and suddenly I see that I have missed the "&" before the variable name in the "scanf" statement. :-)

That was history, however this is what is happening in the industry today. People are always in a hurry to see their product selling in the market, and in that hurry the programmers deadlines are pushed and what one gets into the market is a faulty product. The sales guy sells it, cos he knows how to handle the POC and a foolish partner picks up the product to implement.

Tough times start when actually people start implementing it.

In the other scenario, these days, people are in such a hurry to implement and show how great they are to their customers; architects are not even making design documents. Finally they mess up the project and somehow deliver some nonsense. If you have read my previous article, its because of such hasty implementations in past the future becomes grim and even after knowing this, people repeat mistakes.

To conclude ... I want to write about a funny experience I had ...
Once when I was taking up a final lab exam for a batch of Electronics engineering, a girl submitted her observations to me. The few details were
Project: Implementation of logical gates using circuits and verifying results.
Precautions:
1. The connections should be tight
2. Readings should be taken without parallax error.

I asked two simple questions.
How do you get parallax error when you have a result of 1 if light glows and a result of 0 if it doesn't?
When from did you start having losses in results if the connections were not tight in electronic experiments?

A weird output from a SQL query to Sybase

Environment: Sybase OS, J2EE app running on Tomcat, Driver used was com.sybase.jdbc3.jdbc.SybDataSource

The query goes like this "Select T1.UserId AS ID, " T2.UserId AS GrID ......"

Now the output when logged shows this way
Exiting getColumnNames = [UserId, UserId, .................]

So the "AS" keyword seems to be not working. Problemssssssss

Now the solution was we changed the driver to net.sourceforge.jtds.jdbc.Driver downloaded from Sourceforge. Just downloaded jtds-1.2.2-dist.zip and extracted the jtds-1.2.2.jar to the lib and a simple restart with changes in the connection information.

Hope this would be useful to someone.

What am I doing?

Yepp, its been sometime that I got uncertain about what should I be doing. Finally I have decided to move a little ahead in Identity and learn somethign on Identity Governance. I am currently working on Sailpoint's Identity IQ implementation for a large bank.

Sailpoint - Identity IQ

Ever heard of Recertifications? I am talking about Access Recertifications which happen in organizations to periodically check who is allowed to access what? This process in many organizations goes this way ...

1. Collect user database from every Application owner across the organization
2. Consolidate the list with respect to managers
3. Send the lists to manager to verify if each of those users require the access to the application with whatever access level specified
4. Once the manager gives his decision, the users' accesses are either revoked or modified for which again its a lengthy process, as everyone acknowledges

Sailpoint's Identity IQ addresses this issue. The product just like an Identity Manager provides a unified view of the entire organizational users, with all the data pertinent to Recertifications. Once the application is configured for all the necessary applications and the user data is in, scheduled Certification Requests can be fired to every manager in the organization. Also the escalations can be handled. The managers can just login to the application and either recertify or revoke or modify user access to every application.

So most of the process is automated now. Don't think its done yet. It also can make SPML calls to any provisioning engine avaialable (not OOB) in the Identity market and thus automatize the complete Recertification process.

Read more about these at Sailpoint

One last thing, if I am not wrong these features are available in the world's renowed ... :-)