My Geekdom

Publications

• Reprint of blog entry in Sys-Con's SEO/SEM: My blog entry Google Broken + Unresponsive = Unhappy Neil got reprinted as Viewpoint: Is Google Growing Too Fast? in the online SEO/SEM magazine. It was the most read article in the magazine for two weeks.
• CSOOnline Article: Attack Dangers Posed by ‘Innocent’ Files.
• My Author Page @ dev2dev.bea.com: Mostly just a listing of my blog entries but there is also a pointer to one article I've published on dev2dev.bea.com
• Weblogic Developer's Journal Article Discussing WebLogic Server Extensions to JEE Security: Please let me know if this link is broken. Sys-Con (the parent of WebLogic Developer's Journal)seem to reformat their sites and break links to articles (as well as links within articles) on a pretty routine basis.
• Reprint of blog entry in Google Developer's Journal: My blog entry “Google Maps Are A Bit Broken Right Now”got reprinted in Google Developer's Journal.
• “Implementation Issues for the Psyche Multiprocessor Operating System”: Pointer to a peer-reviewed publication I co-authored a very long time ago. It is only thrown in to impress people as you have to pay to get the document :-)

Patents

• US Patent application pending #20,070,266,442, System and Method for Protecting APIs from Untrusted or Less Trusted Applications and US Patent application pending #20,070,265,835, Method and System for Securing Execution of Untrusted Applications: Two extensions to J2EE (a.k.a: JEE) security for providing permissions to code within the same virtual environment.

• US Patent application pending #20,050,268,108, “Servlet Authentication Filters”: An extension of J2EE (a.k.a: JEE) that provides an integrated and pluggable model for authentication for Servlets. JSR-196 has extended and standardized the concepts introduced in this patent

  US Patent application pe nding #20060031855, “System and Method for Runtime Interface Versioning”, approx. December 2005

• US Patent application pending #20050268108, “Servlet Authentication Filters”, approx. May 2005

• US Patent #7051,069, "System for managing logical process flow in an online environment", May, 2006

• US Patent #5,787,447, "Memory allocation maintaining ordering across multiple heaps", July 1998

• US Patent application pending # 20,070,266,442, System and Method for Protecting APIs from Untrusted or Less Trusted Applications and US Patent application pending 20,070,265,835, Method and System for Securing Execution of Untrusted Applications: Two extensions to J2EE (a.k.a: JEE) security for protecting allowing trusted and untrusted code within the same virtual environment.
  
• US Patent application pending #20,050,268,108, “Servlet Authentication Filters”: An extension of J2EE (a.k.a: JEE) that provides an integrated and pluggable model for authentication for Servlets. JSR-196 has extended and standardized the concepts introduced in this patent.
• US Patent application pending #20,060,031,855, “System and Method for Runtime Interface Versioning”, approx. December 2005 : A strategy for providing an SPI with evolving versions, in Java, while maximizing .
• US Patent #7,051,069, “System for managing logical process flow in an online environment”, May, 2006 : An invention regarding the use of deterministic finite automata as a means of controlling navigation within a web site.
• US Patent #5,787,447, “Memory allocation maintaining ordering across multiple heaps”, July 1998 : A memory allocation algorithm that provided extremely fast and near-optimal memory allocation for an incremental linker.

(My familial lineage of inventors.)

Presentations

• “Writing Secure Web Applications”, 2005 JavaOne. Considered a " “must see” by JavaOne staff.
  
• “Writing Secure Web Applications”, BEAWorld 2005
• “WebLogic Server 9.0 Security Features”, BEAWorld 2005
• “So You Want to Write a Security Provider - Now What?”, BEA eWorld 2004
• “Security in a Web Application”, WebLogic Developer's Journal October 2003
• “Configuring and Administering WebLogic Security”, BEA eWorld 2003
• “Using the New WebLogic Security Architecture”, BEA eWorld 2002
• Security presentations to many enterprise customers covering BEA security features, strategies for architecting secure web installations, security reviews of existing architecture and code, etc...
• Numerous internal training presentations

Miscellany

• A Google search for me. Despite the uniqueness of my last name, I have a 2nd cousin once removed also named “Neil Smithline”. Fortunately he is a doctor so excluding pages with "MD" or "DR" on them probably removes a few pages that are relevant to me from the return set but eliminates most false positives.
• : A social networking site to help you stay in contact with colleagues (sort-of MySpace.com for grown-ups).
• My Facebook Profile.: Yet another social networking site. It is more “social” than “professional networking”.
• My Del.Icio.Us Bookmarks: A social networking site to help you find bookmarks to things you are interested in. See my discussion in my blog on this.
• My Slashdot Page: Slashdot has been home to the geeks of the net for just about ever. With the coming of Web 2.0, they've now added some personalization capabilities including a journal and social bookmarks similar to Del.icio.us. The difference, of course, is that Slashdot users, on a 1-10 scale, are about a 12 for geekiness as compared to Del.icio.us users who are more mainstream.
• My Spock page: Spock is a new site that crawls the web and tries to bring all of your web references to a single location. It also has an interesting mechanism of allowing users to tag themselves and others. So you can tag yourself with “rockstar” and your boss with “bonehead”.