Archive for December, 2006

Authentication panel

Tuesday, December 5th, 2006

Tomorrow I’m hosting a panel about authentication at our local web-related talks. To make thing a bit more interesting I invited more than just coders and security experts – we have a designer and a usability expert on the podium. I think the whole talk will be enlightening to everyone, since hardly anyone knows all the areas covered by our panelists.

I’ll introduce the panelists here in more detail:
Ozren Škondrič is a friend who dedicated a big part of his life to designing web interfaces. He uses a bunch of web based services and applications and is probably the person who filled the most registration forms amongst all the people I know.
Duška Mervar is probably the most famous around here for a great booklet about writing for the web which a lot of people don’t respect enough. As an expert for the user perspective I’m sure she’ll show us a new meaning to serving customers based on their personal preferences.
Tomaž Cerar works at the same company I do – Parsek. He is a coauthor of the infamous CP2 platform – a Java based CMS system we use and also the lead developer of many e-commerce sites we created.
Marko Perme works on e-banking and e-insurance and other e-solutions for one of the biggest Slovenian IT companies – Hermes Softlab. They created and support a few of the biggest and the most used e-service platforms in the country.

The moment is right for us to reflect on what the internet knows about us and to think about what we want from it. The panelists will help us understand what the trends in this area are and shed some light on the matter that is becoming one of the most important problems of the current wave of web services and applications.

Debikartica

Tuesday, December 5th, 2006

The first case-study talk went quite well. Even though I work for the company that presented the project I learned quite a few new things which was great. Unfortunately the number of visitors was quite low – you really did miss on a few thing that could’ve triggered a few sleepy synapses.

Jernej and Igor were a good match, talking about the client and the methodology aspect and the technology respectively. I guess each of the themes actually deserve a talk of its own – unfortunately the number of Wednesdays in a season is finite and good willing speakers are hard to find around here. If you happen to know one (doesn’t need to be from Slovenia) drop a comment.

I’m quite busy in December as you can see from the lack of posts this month – I do have a few longer pieces in writing but don’t have time to finish them.