Francesco Chicchiriccò
CEO
My name is Francesco Chicchiriccò, and my surname has been a tricky challenge since I was born in 1977, every time I had to get in touch with any public office; the advent of Internet made things even more cumbersome, despite of Unicode effort :-)
I am currently ASF member, Apache Syncope PMC chair, Apache Cocoon, Apache Olingo, Apache CXF, Apache OpenJPA PMC member and Apache Pony Mail PPMC member.
Linux - then Debian, what else? - addict since 1997, I am Italian (and proud to be), married with my lovely wife Cinzia, father of a sweet girl Sara and of two wonderful boys Davide and Mattia. Since I was a child I've always loved comics and music, playing bass guitar in a few metal rock bands with some friends.
About Computer Science, I got a master degree in 2001 in L'Aquila, after six months spent at Nokia Research Center in Heksinki (about this, you can take a look at a photo I took at that time with a friend of mine :-P).
Besides ASF, I am project owner of ConnId and the Hippo Cocoon ToolKit.
Written by me...
15/02/2023
Now that web applications are protected by Syncope 3.0, it's time to get back in control about which users can access.
07/12/2022
Following our previous post, we are going to show how to protect legacy web applications with Syncope 3.0 Maggiore.
23/11/2022
Let's leverage some of the new features in Apache Syncope 3.0 Maggiore to protect web applications.
20/01/2021
In the initial scenario, identities from multiple HR systems (including Workday) were set to be transferred to Azure ...
20/01/2021
Tirasa has joined the IDaaS (Identity as a Service) project at Gordon Food Service after an initial phase where acces...
27/11/2019
AP Express by Nivo1 is a SaaS platform that provides accounts payable automation, and has experienced significant gro...
27/11/2018
We put the latest Apache Syncope and PostgreSQL on the bench to try and push to the limit: here are the results
14/06/2018
"Have I Been Pwned?" is a free service to check if an account was compromised in a data breach: Syncope can use it to...
12/09/2017
Need to integrate Apache Syncope in your microservice architecture? Spring Boot comes to the rescue!
09/05/2017
Starting with 2.0.3, Apache Syncope provides native integration with Flowable BPM, the raising star of Open Source wo...
19/04/2017
From Pescara to Bruxelles, Porto, Helsinki and back to Pescara again: when Open Source IdM (also) means face-to-face ...
16/02/2017
The new Log Viewer allows to remotely inspect the log events occurring in the Apache Syncope Core
11/01/2017
The REST interface of Apache Syncope 2.0 offers full access to IdM features, but what if you need to extend?
06/11/2014
Working on IAM you might have heard of the "Open Identity Stack": here's some Open Source alternatives
26/10/2014
1.2.0 brings enhancements in several areas: REST, workflow, notifications, resource management, ...
11/08/2014
The upcoming new stable version 1.2.0 brings - among a whole lot of new features - the availability of .deb packages ...
24/04/2014
The Apache Syncope team is pleased to announce the release of Syncope 1.0.9 (Espressivo) and 1.1.7 (Ad libitum): besi...
15/04/2014
The Apache Syncope team is pleased to announce the release of Syncope 1.1.6 (Ad libitum). This sixth maintenance vers...
26/02/2014
I come from four-in-a-row (very good) laptops made by mummy Apple: an iBook G3, a Powerbook G4, a MacBook Pro Core2Du...
17/12/2013
End of year is time for balance, and mailing list discussion is probably the most important metrics of an open source...
02/12/2013
The Apache Syncope team is pleased to announce the release of Syncope 1.1.5 (Ad libitum). This fifth maintenance vers...
27/11/2013
Every JEE developer will eventually need some Javascript & CSS spice in his applications: jQuery, jQuery UI, Boot...
23/10/2013
There are lots of ways of documenting RESTful APIs in Java: just google a bit and you will find the nice Enunciate an...
19/09/2013
The Apache Syncope team is proud to announce the availability of the new maintenance release of Ad libitum. The relea...
26/07/2013
Starting with recent SNAPSHOTs releases of 1.2.0, it has become fairly easy to call Apache Syncope via REST from your...
16/07/2013
My work companion is still the good old HP Envy 14 1100 that I wrote about a while ago: it is getting old after 2 yea...
17/06/2013
Yesterday my dearest Siduction made me dist-upgrade to latest Linux kernel 3.10. I must admit I was a bit afraid at f...
06/06/2013
The Apache Syncope team is proud to announce the availability of the new maintenance release of Ad libitum. The relea...
28/04/2013
The Apache Syncope team is proud to announce the availability of the new maintenance release of Ad libitum. The relea...
17/04/2013
Apache Syncope can manage users on external LDAP directory server since almost the beginning, via ConnId's LDAP conne...
29/03/2013
The Apache Syncope team is proud to announce the general availability of Apache Syncope 1.1.0 Ad libitum. Besides a c...
15/03/2013
The Apache Syncope team is proud to announce the availability of the seventh maintenance release of Espressivo. The r...
25/02/2013
The Apache Syncope team is proud to announce the availability of the sixth maintenance release of Espressivo. The rel...
01/02/2013
Valentine's Day: in love with OpenSource My company Tirasa is definitely a small company. But we do love OpenSource, ...
28/11/2012
The Apache Syncope team is proud to announce the availability of the fourth maintenance release of Espressivo, the fi...
24/10/2012
Maybe it is a not a common usecase, but I've just had need to know the content type of a bare byte[ ]. After been sea...
08/10/2012
Apache Syncope user mailing list has been recently discussing about "virtual resources", e.g. resources to be used li...
24/09/2012
The second maintenance release is made available by the Apache Syncope team. The release is available here. See relea...
12/09/2012
Federations in MS SQL Azure are a way to achieve greater scalability and performance from the database tier of your a...
03/09/2012
After the 1.0.0-incubating, the first maintenance release is made available by the Apache Syncope team. The release i...
10/07/2012
After 7 months of work the Apache Syncope team is proud to announce the final release of the first stable version sin...
20/03/2012
Cargo is a really nice piece of software that comes handy when developing web apps, by enabling deployment on a signi...
15/03/2012
Will you ever think to deploy a webapp based on the most diffuse and popular Apache Cocoon version (2.1) onto the mos...
15/03/2012
It's happened again: once in a while I must install the latest version of Eclipse IDE on my laptop, for various reaso...
20/01/2012
Syncope recently gained official support for Glassfish 3.1.1: since the JPA layer did - again recently - move to Apac...
04/01/2012
This morning I was looking at access statistics of syncope-idm.org, after yesterday great HOWTO about how to synchron...
23/11/2011
When writing Java code relying on Spring and JPA, you may eventually come to the need of some scheduling; since Quart...
15/07/2011
Syncope needs a new workflow engine, for many good reasons: here's why I've started playing around with Activiti. Act...
07/07/2011
I recently presented some aspects of the renewed Apache Cocoon power through its latest (and not yet completed) relea...
30/06/2011
I've recently come up to a very wicked problem in Syncope, and a saving blog post pointed me in the right direction: ...
20/05/2011
Some articles are already around about Apache Cocoon 3.0, a deep rewrite of an Apache project that is bringing to the...
09/03/2011
After very good news I have reported before, this morning I have received a very pleasant e-mail saying that since to...
09/03/2011
HSQLDB is a very nice and complete all-Java DBMS, particularly useful when doing quick test-outs or maven tests. A wh...
02/03/2011
Yesterday evening I had to print out a photo of my son: since the only ready PC in the neighbourhood was my brand new...