diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 691e80dc..9998afa5 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ Greenhouse is a Java web application built for the Spring community that has two
 
 		$ cd greenhouse
 
-3. The project uses [Maven](http://maven.apache.org/) to build:
+3. The project uses [Maven](https://maven.apache.org/) to build:
 
 		$ mvn clean install
 
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/springsource/greenhouse/activity/badge/JdbcBadgeRepository.java b/src/main/java/com/springsource/greenhouse/activity/badge/JdbcBadgeRepository.java
index 93223bed..e3efc614 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/springsource/greenhouse/activity/badge/JdbcBadgeRepository.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/springsource/greenhouse/activity/badge/JdbcBadgeRepository.java
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ public AwardedBadge createAwardedBadge(String badge, Account account, Action act
 		jdbcTemplate.update("insert into AwardedBadge (badge, awardTime, member, memberAction) values (?, ?, ?, ?)", badge, awardTime.toDate(), account.getId(), action.getId());
 		Long id = jdbcTemplate.queryForLong("call identity()");
 		// TODO dont hardcode
-		String imageUrl = "http://images.greenhouse.springsource.org/activity/icon-default-badge.png";
+		String imageUrl = "https://images.greenhouse.springsource.org/activity/icon-default-badge.png";
 		return new AwardedBadge(id, badge, awardTime, imageUrl, account, action);
 	}
 
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/springsource/greenhouse/config/test-data.sql b/src/main/java/com/springsource/greenhouse/config/test-data.sql
index 1e2a7955..061d3be6 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/springsource/greenhouse/config/test-data.sql
+++ b/src/main/java/com/springsource/greenhouse/config/test-data.sql
@@ -8,19 +8,19 @@ insert into Member (firstName, lastName, email, password, username, gender, birt
 insert into Member (firstName, lastName, email, password, username, gender, birthdate) values ('David', 'Winterfeldt', 'dwinterfeldt@vmware.com', 'sanfran', 'dwinterfeldt', 'M', '1973-11-4');
 
 -- Greenhouse for iPhone Tester
-insert into App (name, slug, description, organization, website, apiKey, secret, callbackUrl) values ('Greenhouse for iPhone', 'greenhouse-for-iphone', 'Our slick mobile client for the Apple iPhone ', 'SpringSource', 'http://www.springsource.com', 'a08318eb478a1ee31f69a55276f3af64', '80e7f8f7ba724aae9103f297e5fb9bdf', 'x-com-springsource-greenhouse://oauth-response');
+insert into App (name, slug, description, organization, website, apiKey, secret, callbackUrl) values ('Greenhouse for iPhone', 'greenhouse-for-iphone', 'Our slick mobile client for the Apple iPhone ', 'SpringSource', 'https://www.springsource.com', 'a08318eb478a1ee31f69a55276f3af64', '80e7f8f7ba724aae9103f297e5fb9bdf', 'x-com-springsource-greenhouse://oauth-response');
 insert into AppDeveloper (app, member) values (1, 1);
 insert into AppDeveloper (app, member) values (1, 2);
 insert into AppDeveloper (app, member) values (1, 3);
 
 -- Greenhouse for Android Tester
-insert into App (name, slug, description, organization, website, apiKey, secret, callbackUrl) values ('Greenhouse for Android', 'greenhouse-for-android', 'Our slick mobile client for the Google Android ', 'SpringSource', 'http://www.springsource.com', 'e9fbccdae98d5696', '9fa283e1eca2d4e8', 'x-com-springsource-greenhouse://oauth-response');
+insert into App (name, slug, description, organization, website, apiKey, secret, callbackUrl) values ('Greenhouse for Android', 'greenhouse-for-android', 'Our slick mobile client for the Google Android ', 'SpringSource', 'https://www.springsource.com', 'e9fbccdae98d5696', '9fa283e1eca2d4e8', 'x-com-springsource-greenhouse://oauth-response');
 insert into AppDeveloper (app, member) values (2, 1);
 insert into AppDeveloper (app, member) values (2, 2);
 insert into AppDeveloper (app, member) values (2, 3);
 
 -- Greenhouse Sample App Tester
-insert into App (name, slug, description, organization, website, apiKey, secret, callbackUrl) values ('Greenhouse Sample App', 'greenhouse-sample-app', 'An application created for testing purposes ', 'SpringSource', 'http://www.springsource.com', 'testclient', 'testsecret', 'http://localhost:8080/ghsample');
+insert into App (name, slug, description, organization, website, apiKey, secret, callbackUrl) values ('Greenhouse Sample App', 'greenhouse-sample-app', 'An application created for testing purposes ', 'SpringSource', 'https://www.springsource.com', 'testclient', 'testsecret', 'http://localhost:8080/ghsample');
 insert into AppDeveloper (app, member) values (3, 2);
 
 -- Test Upcoming Event Data: SpringOne 2GX 2012
@@ -322,7 +322,7 @@ insert into EventSessionLeader (event, session, leader) values (1, 32, 33);
 
 insert into Leader (name) values ('Rob Woollenn');
 insert into EventSession (event, id, title, timeSlot, description, hashtag, track, venue, room) values (1, 33, 'Inside the Force.com Cloud Platform', 12, 
-	'To truly understand the sophistication and potential of the Force.com platform we are going to peek under the kimono in this session. Join salesforce.com principal architect, Rob Woollen, as he discusses the Force.com multi-tenant architecture implementation. YouÕll learn the details of how the Force.com platform maintains high performance and scalability for over 80,000 customers and thousands of cloud applications.',
+	'To truly understand the sophistication and potential of the Force.com platform we are going to peek under the kimono in this session. Join salesforce.com principal architect, Rob Woollen, as he discusses the Force.com multi-tenant architecture implementation. You�ll learn the details of how the Force.com platform maintains high performance and scalability for over 80,000 customers and thousands of cloud applications.',
 	'#inforce', 'vmw', 1, 5);
 insert into EventSessionLeader (event, session, leader) values (1, 33, 34);
 
@@ -371,7 +371,7 @@ insert into EventSessionLeader (event, session, leader) values (1, 39, 38);
 insert into Leader (name) values ('Scott Andrews');
 insert into Leader (name) values ('Jon Travis');
 insert into EventSession (event, id, title, timeSlot, description, hashtag, track, venue, room) values (1, 40, 'Diagnosing Performance Issues with Spring Insight before it''s a Problem', 14, 
-	'What if a user reports your application is slow? At that point, itÕs too late. Runtime performance is more than an ops teamÕs concern. Continuous performance profiling is an important part of the agile developerÕs bag of tools. Spring Insight enables developers to watch what their application is actually doing in real time and zero in on performance issues. Come to this session to learn about Spring Insight from its creators. Learn how to easily enhance the default instrumentation to gain even greater visibility into your application. ',
+	'What if a user reports your application is slow? At that point, it�s too late. Runtime performance is more than an ops team�s concern. Continuous performance profiling is an important part of the agile developer�s bag of tools. Spring Insight enables developers to watch what their application is actually doing in real time and zero in on performance issues. Come to this session to learn about Spring Insight from its creators. Learn how to easily enhance the default instrumentation to gain even greater visibility into your application. ',
 	'#insight', 'int', 1, 1);
 insert into EventSessionLeader (event, session, leader, rank) values (1, 40, 39, 2);
 insert into EventSessionLeader (event, session, leader, rank) values (1, 40, 40, 1);
@@ -888,6 +888,6 @@ insert into EventSessionLeader (event, session, leader) values (1, 115, 19);
 
  
 insert into EventSession (event, id, title, timeSlot, description, hashtag, track, venue, room) values (1, 116, 'Grails + CouchDB', 35, 
-	'"CouchDB is built of the Web. IÕve never seen software that so completely embraces the philosophies behind HTTP." Jacob Kaplan-Moss, Django Developer',
+	'"CouchDB is built of the Web. I�ve never seen software that so completely embraces the philosophies behind HTTP." Jacob Kaplan-Moss, Django Developer',
 	'#couchdb', 'grf', 1, 9);
 insert into EventSessionLeader (event, session, leader) values (1, 116, 56);
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/springsource/greenhouse/database/DatabaseUpgrader.java b/src/main/java/com/springsource/greenhouse/database/DatabaseUpgrader.java
index 377cc9fe..ea9d3b11 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/springsource/greenhouse/database/DatabaseUpgrader.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/springsource/greenhouse/database/DatabaseUpgrader.java
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
  * If the Database is at version zero(), the current version of the database will be installed.
  * If the Database is at a version less than the current version, the database will be upgraded from that version to the current version.
  * If the Database is already at the current version, no migration will be performed.
- * This migration model was adapted from the <a href="http://www.liquibase.org/tutorial-using-oracle">LiquiBase Oracle tutorial</a>.
+ * This migration model was adapted from the <a href="https://www.liquibase.org/tutorial-using-oracle">LiquiBase Oracle tutorial</a>.
  * @author Keith Donald
  */
 public class DatabaseUpgrader {
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/springsource/greenhouse/develop/JdbcAppRepository.java b/src/main/java/com/springsource/greenhouse/develop/JdbcAppRepository.java
index 6f94b28d..34830ac1 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/springsource/greenhouse/develop/JdbcAppRepository.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/springsource/greenhouse/develop/JdbcAppRepository.java
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ private String createSlug(String appName) {
 	private RowMapper<AppSummary> appSummaryMapper = new RowMapper<AppSummary>() {
 		public AppSummary mapRow(ResultSet rs, int rowNum) throws SQLException {
 			// TODO this is currently hardcoded
-			String iconUrl = "http://images.greenhouse.springsource.org/apps/icon-default-app.png";
+			String iconUrl = "https://images.greenhouse.springsource.org/apps/icon-default-app.png";
 			return new AppSummary(rs.getString("name"), iconUrl, rs.getString("description"), rs.getString("slug"));
 		}
 	};
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/springsource/greenhouse/signup/welcome.st b/src/main/java/com/springsource/greenhouse/signup/welcome.st
index 58cb1fc1..859c9121 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/springsource/greenhouse/signup/welcome.st
+++ b/src/main/java/com/springsource/greenhouse/signup/welcome.st
@@ -6,4 +6,4 @@ View your member profile at:
 $profileUrl$
 
 Download Greenhouse for iPhone:
-http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/greenhouse/id395862873
\ No newline at end of file
+https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/greenhouse/id395862873
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/springsource/greenhouse/utils/GeoLocation.java b/src/main/java/com/springsource/greenhouse/utils/GeoLocation.java
index 52842ee4..7dccec33 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/springsource/greenhouse/utils/GeoLocation.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/springsource/greenhouse/utils/GeoLocation.java
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ private GeoLocation (String lat, String lon) {
 	public Double toLatitude () { return new Double(lat); }
 
 	public static GeoLocation getGeoLocation (String address) throws IOException {
-		BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader (new InputStreamReader (new URL ("http://maps.google.com/maps/geo?q="+URLEncoder.encode (address, ENCODING)+"&output=csv&key="+KEY).openStream ()));
+		BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader (new InputStreamReader (new URL ("https://maps.google.com/maps/geo?q="+URLEncoder.encode (address, ENCODING)+"&output=csv&key="+KEY).openStream ()));
 		String line;
 		GeoLocation location = null;
 		int statusCode = -1;
diff --git a/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/layouts/standard/footer.jsp b/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/layouts/standard/footer.jsp
index 13af9d23..51316256 100644
--- a/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/layouts/standard/footer.jsp
+++ b/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/layouts/standard/footer.jsp
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <%@ page session="false" %>
 <%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" prefix="c" %>
 		
-<a id="springsource" href="http://www.springsource.com">SpringSource</a>
+<a id="springsource" href="https://www.springsource.com">SpringSource</a>
 <p>Version 1.0.0 (Beta) - &copy; Copyright 2010-2012 SpringSource, a division of VMware</p>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/views/groups/event.jsp b/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/views/groups/event.jsp
index 7200de8c..d81857de 100644
--- a/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/views/groups/event.jsp
+++ b/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/views/groups/event.jsp
@@ -17,6 +17,6 @@
 	Grab the Greenhouse mobile client to follow this Event as it happens.
 </p>
 <div id="appIcons" style="padding: 0 0 20px 0 ;">
-	<a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/greenhouse/id395862873"><img src="<c:url value="/resources/mobile/icon-apple-appstore.gif" />" /></a>
+	<a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/greenhouse/id395862873"><img src="<c:url value="/resources/mobile/icon-apple-appstore.gif" />" /></a>
 	<a href="https://market.android.com/details?id=com.springsource.greenhouse"><img src="<c:url value="/resources/mobile/icon-android-marketplace.gif" />" /></a>
 </div>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/views/home/contentSignedIn.jsp b/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/views/home/contentSignedIn.jsp
index 97c04a64..3a2e46d6 100644
--- a/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/views/home/contentSignedIn.jsp
+++ b/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/views/home/contentSignedIn.jsp
@@ -14,6 +14,6 @@
 	</p>
 </div>
 <div id="appIcons">
-	<a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/greenhouse/id395862873"><img src="<c:url value="/resources/mobile/icon-apple-appstore.gif" />" /></a>
+	<a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/greenhouse/id395862873"><img src="<c:url value="/resources/mobile/icon-apple-appstore.gif" />" /></a>
 	<a href="https://market.android.com/details?id=com.springsource.greenhouse"><img src="<c:url value="/resources/mobile/icon-android-marketplace.gif" />" /></a>
 </div>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/views/invite/facebook/invite.jsp b/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/views/invite/facebook/invite.jsp
index 886a151b..9ee0e128 100644
--- a/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/views/invite/facebook/invite.jsp
+++ b/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/views/invite/facebook/invite.jsp
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 <fb:serverfbml style="width: 625px;">
 	<script type="text/fbml">
 		<fb:fbml>
-			<fb:request-form action='<u:absoluteUrl value="/invite/facebook/request-form" />' method="POST" invite="true" type="Greenhouse" content="Join me in the Greenhouse! It's the best way to exchange ideas and information with other Spring application developers. <fb:req-choice url='http://greenhouse.springsource.org' label='Join the Greenhouse' />">
+			<fb:request-form action='<u:absoluteUrl value="/invite/facebook/request-form" />' method="POST" invite="true" type="Greenhouse" content="Join me in the Greenhouse! It's the best way to exchange ideas and information with other Spring application developers. <fb:req-choice url='https://greenhouse.springsource.org' label='Join the Greenhouse' />">
 				<fb:multi-friend-selector bypass="cancel" email_invite="false" import_external_friends="false" cols="4" showborder="false" actiontext="Invite your Facebook friends to join Greenhouse"></fb:multi-friend-selector>
 			</fb:request-form>
 		</fb:fbml>
diff --git a/src/main/webapp/resources/jquery-cookie/1.0/jquery-cookie.js b/src/main/webapp/resources/jquery-cookie/1.0/jquery-cookie.js
index 6df1faca..25bf86b9 100644
--- a/src/main/webapp/resources/jquery-cookie/1.0/jquery-cookie.js
+++ b/src/main/webapp/resources/jquery-cookie/1.0/jquery-cookie.js
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@
  *
  * Copyright (c) 2006 Klaus Hartl (stilbuero.de)
  * Dual licensed under the MIT and GPL licenses:
- * http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php
- * http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html
+ * https://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php
+ * https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html
  *
  */
 
diff --git a/src/main/webapp/resources/jquery/1.6/jquery.js b/src/main/webapp/resources/jquery/1.6/jquery.js
index f3201aac..258d0cdb 100644
--- a/src/main/webapp/resources/jquery/1.6/jquery.js
+++ b/src/main/webapp/resources/jquery/1.6/jquery.js
@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
 /*!
  * jQuery JavaScript Library v1.6.2
- * http://jquery.com/
+ * https://jquery.com/
  *
  * Copyright 2011, John Resig
  * Dual licensed under the MIT or GPL Version 2 licenses.
- * http://jquery.org/license
+ * https://jquery.org/license
  *
  * Includes Sizzle.js
- * http://sizzlejs.com/
+ * https://sizzlejs.com/
  * Copyright 2011, The Dojo Foundation
  * Released under the MIT, BSD, and GPL Licenses.
  *
@@ -562,7 +562,7 @@ jQuery.extend({
 		}
 
 		// Make sure the incoming data is actual JSON
-		// Logic borrowed from http://json.org/json2.js
+		// Logic borrowed from https://json.org/json2.js
 		if ( rvalidchars.test( data.replace( rvalidescape, "@" )
 			.replace( rvalidtokens, "]" )
 			.replace( rvalidbraces, "")) ) {
@@ -599,7 +599,7 @@ jQuery.extend({
 
 	// Evaluates a script in a global context
 	// Workarounds based on findings by Jim Driscoll
-	// http://weblogs.java.net/blog/driscoll/archive/2009/09/08/eval-javascript-global-context
+	// https://weblogs.java.net/blog/driscoll/archive/2009/09/08/eval-javascript-global-context
 	globalEval: function( data ) {
 		if ( data && rnotwhite.test( data ) ) {
 			// We use execScript on Internet Explorer
@@ -846,7 +846,7 @@ jQuery.extend({
 	},
 
 	// Use of jQuery.browser is frowned upon.
-	// More details: http://docs.jquery.com/Utilities/jQuery.browser
+	// More details: https://docs.jquery.com/Utilities/jQuery.browser
 	uaMatch: function( ua ) {
 		ua = ua.toLowerCase();
 
@@ -1370,7 +1370,7 @@ jQuery.support = (function() {
 	testElementParent.removeChild( testElement );
 
 	// Technique from Juriy Zaytsev
-	// http://thinkweb2.com/projects/prototype/detecting-event-support-without-browser-sniffing/
+	// https://thinkweb2.com/projects/prototype/detecting-event-support-without-browser-sniffing/
 	// We only care about the case where non-standard event systems
 	// are used, namely in IE. Short-circuiting here helps us to
 	// avoid an eval call (in setAttribute) which can cause CSP
@@ -1850,7 +1850,7 @@ jQuery.fn.extend({
 		});
 	},
 	// Based off of the plugin by Clint Helfers, with permission.
-	// http://blindsignals.com/index.php/2009/07/jquery-delay/
+	// http://blindsignals.com
 	delay: function( time, type ) {
 		time = jQuery.fx ? jQuery.fx.speeds[time] || time : time;
 		type = type || "fx";
@@ -2311,7 +2311,7 @@ jQuery.extend({
 		tabIndex: {
 			get: function( elem ) {
 				// elem.tabIndex doesn't always return the correct value when it hasn't been explicitly set
-				// http://fluidproject.org/blog/2008/01/09/getting-setting-and-removing-tabindex-values-with-javascript/
+				// https://fluidproject.org/blog/2008/01/09/getting-setting-and-removing-tabindex-values-with-javascript/
 				var attributeNode = elem.getAttributeNode("tabIndex");
 
 				return attributeNode && attributeNode.specified ?
@@ -3733,7 +3733,7 @@ jQuery.each( ("blur focus focusin focusout load resize scroll unload click dblcl
  * Sizzle CSS Selector Engine
  *  Copyright 2011, The Dojo Foundation
  *  Released under the MIT, BSD, and GPL Licenses.
- *  More information: http://sizzlejs.com/
+ *  More information: https://sizzlejs.com/
  */
 (function(){
 
@@ -5375,7 +5375,7 @@ jQuery.each({
 			// The variable 'args' was introduced in
 			// https://github.com/jquery/jquery/commit/52a0238
 			// to work around a bug in Chrome 10 (Dev) and should be removed when the bug is fixed.
-			// http://code.google.com/p/v8/issues/detail?id=1050
+			// https://code.google.com/p/v8/issues/detail?id=1050
 			args = slice.call(arguments);
 
 		if ( !runtil.test( name ) ) {
@@ -7879,7 +7879,7 @@ if ( jQuery.support.ajax ) {
 
 						// Firefox throws exceptions when accessing properties
 						// of an xhr when a network error occured
-						// http://helpful.knobs-dials.com/index.php/Component_returned_failure_code:_0x80040111_(NS_ERROR_NOT_AVAILABLE)
+						// https://helpful.knobs-dials.com/index.php/Component_returned_failure_code:_0x80040111_(NS_ERROR_NOT_AVAILABLE)
 						try {
 
 							// Was never called and is aborted or complete
diff --git a/src/test/java/com/springsource/greenhouse/account/WelcomeMailTransformerTest.java b/src/test/java/com/springsource/greenhouse/account/WelcomeMailTransformerTest.java
index 1e4cb0f6..4fe7019c 100644
--- a/src/test/java/com/springsource/greenhouse/account/WelcomeMailTransformerTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/com/springsource/greenhouse/account/WelcomeMailTransformerTest.java
@@ -31,14 +31,14 @@ public class WelcomeMailTransformerTest {
 	public void welcomeMail() {
 		WelcomeMailTransformer transformer = new WelcomeMailTransformer();
 
-		Account account = new Account(1L, "Roy", "Clarkson", "rclarkson@vmware.com", "rclarkson", "http://foo.com/bar.jpg", new UriTemplate("http://greenhouse.springsource.org/members/{id}"));
+		Account account = new Account(1L, "Roy", "Clarkson", "rclarkson@vmware.com", "rclarkson", "http://www.foo.com/", new UriTemplate("https://greenhouse.springsource.org/members/{id}"));
 		SimpleMailMessage welcomeMail = (SimpleMailMessage) transformer.welcomeMail(account);
 
 		assertEquals("rclarkson@vmware.com", welcomeMail.getTo()[0]);
 		assertEquals("Greenhouse <noreply@springsource.com>", welcomeMail.getFrom());
 		assertEquals("Welcome to the Greenhouse!", welcomeMail.getSubject());
 		String mailText = welcomeMail.getText();
-		assertTrue(mailText.contains("View your member profile at:" + NEWLINE + "http://greenhouse.springsource.org/members/rclarkson"));
+		assertTrue(mailText.contains("View your member profile at:" + NEWLINE + "https://greenhouse.springsource.org/members/rclarkson"));
 	}
 
 }
diff --git a/src/test/java/com/springsource/greenhouse/connect/JdbcAccountConnectionRepositoryTest.sql b/src/test/java/com/springsource/greenhouse/connect/JdbcAccountConnectionRepositoryTest.sql
index 71e886ff..59ee2097 100644
--- a/src/test/java/com/springsource/greenhouse/connect/JdbcAccountConnectionRepositoryTest.sql
+++ b/src/test/java/com/springsource/greenhouse/connect/JdbcAccountConnectionRepositoryTest.sql
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 insert into Member (firstName, lastName, email, password, username, gender, birthdate) values ('Craig', 'Walls', 'cwalls@vmware.com', 'password', 'habuma', 'M', '1977-12-01');
 insert into Member (firstName, lastName, email, password, username, gender, birthdate) values ('Keith', 'Donald', 'kdonald@vmware.com', 'password', 'kdonald', 'M', '1977-12-01');
 insert into Member (firstName, lastName, email, password, username, gender, birthdate) values ('Roy', 'Clarkson', 'rclarkson@vmware.com', 'password', 'rclarkson', 'M', '1977-12-01');
-insert into ServiceProvider (name, displayName, implementation, apiKey, secret, requestTokenUrl, authorizeUrl, accessTokenUrl) values ('twitter', 'Twitter', 'com.springsource.greenhouse.connect.providers.TwitterServiceProvider', '76926d574e7ff5dabb94b5df23b6add6', 'ea448a2cc81b84da29b3eeaf1e0242a1', 'http://www.twitter.com', 'http://www.twitter.com', 'http://www.twitter.com');
+insert into ServiceProvider (name, displayName, implementation, apiKey, secret, requestTokenUrl, authorizeUrl, accessTokenUrl) values ('twitter', 'Twitter', 'com.springsource.greenhouse.connect.providers.TwitterServiceProvider', '76926d574e7ff5dabb94b5df23b6add6', 'ea448a2cc81b84da29b3eeaf1e0242a1', 'https://www.twitter.com', 'https://www.twitter.com', 'https://www.twitter.com');
 insert into AccountConnection (member, accountId, provider, accessToken, secret) values (1, 'habuma', 'twitter', '8d4c8b1930b25c4ea1a923fb9c213f4d', '75ad6993ccabf71f0fd3314f8e2d5ed8');
 insert into AccountConnection (member, accountId, provider, accessToken, secret) values (3, 'rclarkson', 'twitter', 'df007a91474c6fb314afce38943f2ae7', '4925a46855cf18a22e5cf0e41c6aff9f');
diff --git a/src/test/java/com/springsource/greenhouse/connect/JdbcServiceProviderFactoryTest.sql b/src/test/java/com/springsource/greenhouse/connect/JdbcServiceProviderFactoryTest.sql
index 7996e02a..a00a6f71 100644
--- a/src/test/java/com/springsource/greenhouse/connect/JdbcServiceProviderFactoryTest.sql
+++ b/src/test/java/com/springsource/greenhouse/connect/JdbcServiceProviderFactoryTest.sql
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-insert into ServiceProvider (name, displayName, implementation, apiKey, secret, requestTokenUrl, authorizeUrl, accessTokenUrl) values ('twitter', 'Twitter', 'com.springsource.greenhouse.connect.providers.TwitterServiceProvider', '76926d574e7ff5dabb94b5df23b6add6', 'ea448a2cc81b84da29b3eeaf1e0242a1', 'http://www.twitter.com/request', 'http://www.twitter.com/authorize?oauth_token={token}', 'http://www.twitter.com/access');
-insert into ServiceProvider (name, displayName, implementation, apiKey, secret, requestTokenUrl, authorizeUrl, accessTokenUrl) values ('facebook', 'Facebook', 'com.springsource.greenhouse.connect.providers.FacebookServiceProvider', '8d4c8b1930b25c4ea1a923fb9c213f4d', 'ea448a2cc81b84da29b3eeaf1e0242a1', 'http://www.facebook.com/request', 'http://www.facebook.com/authorize', 'http://www.facebook.com/access');
+insert into ServiceProvider (name, displayName, implementation, apiKey, secret, requestTokenUrl, authorizeUrl, accessTokenUrl) values ('twitter', 'Twitter', 'com.springsource.greenhouse.connect.providers.TwitterServiceProvider', '76926d574e7ff5dabb94b5df23b6add6', 'ea448a2cc81b84da29b3eeaf1e0242a1', 'https://www.twitter.com/request', 'https://www.twitter.com/authorize?oauth_token={token}', 'https://www.twitter.com/access');
+insert into ServiceProvider (name, displayName, implementation, apiKey, secret, requestTokenUrl, authorizeUrl, accessTokenUrl) values ('facebook', 'Facebook', 'com.springsource.greenhouse.connect.providers.FacebookServiceProvider', '8d4c8b1930b25c4ea1a923fb9c213f4d', 'ea448a2cc81b84da29b3eeaf1e0242a1', 'https://www.facebook.com/request', 'https://www.facebook.com/authorize', 'https://www.facebook.com/access');
diff --git a/src/test/java/com/springsource/greenhouse/connect/TwitterConnectInterceptorTest.java b/src/test/java/com/springsource/greenhouse/connect/TwitterConnectInterceptorTest.java
index 50c4f07f..e7467350 100644
--- a/src/test/java/com/springsource/greenhouse/connect/TwitterConnectInterceptorTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/com/springsource/greenhouse/connect/TwitterConnectInterceptorTest.java
@@ -61,17 +61,17 @@ public void preConnect_noPostTweetParameter() {
 	@Test
 	public void postConnect() {
 		request.setAttribute("twitterConnect.postTweet", Boolean.TRUE, WebRequest.SCOPE_SESSION);
-		Account account = new Account(2L, "Craig", "Walls", "cwalls@vmware.com", "habuma", "http://picture.com/url", new UriTemplate("http://greenhouse.springsource.org/members/{profile}"));
+		Account account = new Account(2L, "Craig", "Walls", "cwalls@vmware.com", "habuma", "https://picture.com/url", new UriTemplate("https://greenhouse.springsource.org/members/{profile}"));
 		AccountUtils.signin(account);
 		//TwitterApi twitterApi = Mockito.mock(TwitterApi.class);
 		//StubServiceProviderConnection<TwitterApi> connection = new StubServiceProviderConnection<TwitterApi>(twitterApi);
 		//interceptor.postConnect(connection, request);
-		//Mockito.verify(twitterApi).timelineOperations().updateStatus("Join me at the Greenhouse! http://greenhouse.springsource.org/members/habuma");
+		//Mockito.verify(twitterApi).timelineOperations().updateStatus("Join me at the Greenhouse! https://greenhouse.springsource.org/members/habuma");
 	}
 
 	@Test
 	public void postConnect_noPostTweetAttribute() {
-		Account account = new Account(2L, "Craig", "Walls", "cwalls@vmware.com", "habuma", "http://picture.com/url", new UriTemplate("http://greenhouse.springsource.org/members/{profile}"));
+		Account account = new Account(2L, "Craig", "Walls", "cwalls@vmware.com", "habuma", "https://picture.com/url", new UriTemplate("https://greenhouse.springsource.org/members/{profile}"));
 		AccountUtils.signin(account);
 		//TwitterApi twitterApi = Mockito.mock(TwitterApi.class);
 		//StubServiceProviderConnection<TwitterApi> connection = new StubServiceProviderConnection<TwitterApi>(twitterApi);
diff --git a/src/test/java/com/springsource/greenhouse/develop/JdbcAppRepositoryTest.java b/src/test/java/com/springsource/greenhouse/develop/JdbcAppRepositoryTest.java
index 0b2e361e..557cd0ac 100644
--- a/src/test/java/com/springsource/greenhouse/develop/JdbcAppRepositoryTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/com/springsource/greenhouse/develop/JdbcAppRepositoryTest.java
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ public void findAppSummaries() {
 		AppSummary summary = summaries.get(0);
 		assertEquals("Greenhouse for Facebook", summary.getName());
 		assertEquals("Awesome", summary.getDescription());
-		assertEquals("http://images.greenhouse.springsource.org/apps/icon-default-app.png", summary.getIconUrl());
+		assertEquals("https://images.greenhouse.springsource.org/apps/icon-default-app.png", summary.getIconUrl());
 		assertEquals("greenhouse-for-facebook", summary.getSlug());
 
 		summaries = appRepository.findAppSummaries(3L);
@@ -100,12 +100,12 @@ public void createApp() {
 	public void updateApp() {
 		AppForm form = appRepository.getAppForm(2L, "greenhouse-for-facebook");
 		form.setName("Greenhouse for Twitter");
-		form.setWebsite("http://www.twitter.com");
+		form.setWebsite("https://www.twitter.com");
 		String slug = appRepository.updateApp(2L, "greenhouse-for-facebook", form);
 		assertEquals("greenhouse-for-twitter", slug);
 		form = appRepository.getAppForm(2L, "greenhouse-for-twitter");
 		assertEquals("Greenhouse for Twitter", form.getName());
-		assertEquals("http://www.twitter.com", form.getWebsite());
+		assertEquals("https://www.twitter.com", form.getWebsite());
 	}
 
 	@Test
diff --git a/src/test/java/com/springsource/greenhouse/develop/JdbcAppRepositoryTest.sql b/src/test/java/com/springsource/greenhouse/develop/JdbcAppRepositoryTest.sql
index 785b0c00..f423309e 100644
--- a/src/test/java/com/springsource/greenhouse/develop/JdbcAppRepositoryTest.sql
+++ b/src/test/java/com/springsource/greenhouse/develop/JdbcAppRepositoryTest.sql
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 insert into Member (firstName, lastName, email, password, username, gender, birthdate) values ('Keith', 'Donald', 'kdonald@vmware.com', 'password', 'kdonald', 'M', '1977-12-01');
 
 insert into Member (firstName, lastName, email, password, username, gender, birthdate) values ('Craig', 'Walls', 'cwalls@vmware.com', 'password', 'habuma', 'M', '1977-12-01');
-insert into App (name, slug, description, organization, website, apiKey, secret, callbackUrl) values ('Greenhouse for Facebook', 'greenhouse-for-facebook', 'Awesome', 'SpringSource', 'http://www.springsource.com', 'apikey1', 'secret1', null);
+insert into App (name, slug, description, organization, website, apiKey, secret, callbackUrl) values ('Greenhouse for Facebook', 'greenhouse-for-facebook', 'Awesome', 'SpringSource', 'https://www.springsource.com', 'apikey1', 'secret1', null);
 insert into AppDeveloper (app, member) values (1, 2);
 
 insert into Member (firstName, lastName, email, password, username, gender, birthdate) values ('Roy' , 'Clarkson', 'roy@vmware.com', 'password', 'roy', 'M', '1977-12-01');
-insert into App (name, slug, description, organization, website, apiKey, secret, callbackUrl) values ('Greenhouse for the iPhone', 'greenhouse-for-the-iphone', 'Awesome', 'SpringSource', 'http://www.springsource.com', '123456789', '987654321', 'x-com-springsource-greenhouse://oauth-response');
+insert into App (name, slug, description, organization, website, apiKey, secret, callbackUrl) values ('Greenhouse for the iPhone', 'greenhouse-for-the-iphone', 'Awesome', 'SpringSource', 'https://www.springsource.com', '123456789', '987654321', 'x-com-springsource-greenhouse://oauth-response');
 insert into AppDeveloper (app, member) values (2, 3);
-insert into App (name, slug, description, organization, website, apiKey, secret, callbackUrl) values ('Greenhouse for the Android', 'greenhouse-for-the-android', 'Awesome', 'SpringSource', 'http://www.springsource.com', 'apikey2', 'secret2', null);
+insert into App (name, slug, description, organization, website, apiKey, secret, callbackUrl) values ('Greenhouse for the Android', 'greenhouse-for-the-android', 'Awesome', 'SpringSource', 'https://www.springsource.com', 'apikey2', 'secret2', null);
 insert into AppDeveloper (app, member) values (3, 3);
 
diff --git a/src/test/java/com/springsource/greenhouse/events/load/NFJSLoaderTest.java b/src/test/java/com/springsource/greenhouse/events/load/NFJSLoaderTest.java
index a5b88dbe..ac99b87c 100644
--- a/src/test/java/com/springsource/greenhouse/events/load/NFJSLoaderTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/com/springsource/greenhouse/events/load/NFJSLoaderTest.java
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ public void loadOnce() {
 		
 		assertEventData("SpringOne 2GX", "America/Chicago", "2011-10-25 00:00:00.0", "2011-10-28 23:59:59.0", "S2GX");
 		assertVenueData("Chicago Marriott Downtown Magnificent Mile", "540 North Michigan Avenue null Chicago, IL 60611", 41.8920052, -87.6247001, "Chicago, IL", 1L);
-		assertLeaderData("Craig Walls", "Craig Walls is the Spring Social Project Lead.", "http://blog.springsource.com/author/cwalls/", "habuma");
+		assertLeaderData("Craig Walls", "Craig Walls is the Spring Social Project Lead.", "https://spring.io/blog/", "habuma");
 		assertEventTimeSlotData(16L, 1L, "DINNER", "2011-10-26 18:30:00.0", "2011-10-26 19:30:00.0");
 	}
 
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ public void loadOnceThenUpdateWithSameData() {
 		assertRowCounts(1, 1, 85, 36, 112);
 		assertEventData("SpringOne 2GX", "America/Chicago", "2011-10-25 00:00:00.0", "2011-10-28 23:59:59.0", "S2GX");
 		assertVenueData("Chicago Marriott Downtown Magnificent Mile", "540 North Michigan Avenue null Chicago, IL 60611", 41.8920052, -87.6247001, "Chicago, IL", 1L);
-		assertLeaderData("Craig Walls", "Craig Walls is the Spring Social Project Lead.", "http://blog.springsource.com/author/cwalls/", "habuma");
+		assertLeaderData("Craig Walls", "Craig Walls is the Spring Social Project Lead.", "https://spring.io/blog/", "habuma");
 		assertEventTimeSlotData(16L, 1L, "DINNER", "2011-10-26 18:30:00.0", "2011-10-26 19:30:00.0");
 	}
 	
@@ -95,14 +95,14 @@ public void loadOnceThenUpdateNewData() {
 		assertRowCounts(1, 1, 85, 36, 112);
 		assertEventData("SpringOne 2GX", "America/Chicago", "2011-10-25 00:00:00.0", "2011-10-28 23:59:59.0", "S2GX");
 		assertVenueData("Chicago Marriott Downtown Magnificent Mile", "540 North Michigan Avenue null Chicago, IL 60611", 41.8920052, -87.6247001, "Chicago, IL", 1L);
-		assertLeaderData("Craig Walls", "Craig Walls is the Spring Social Project Lead.", "http://blog.springsource.com/author/cwalls/", "habuma");
+		assertLeaderData("Craig Walls", "Craig Walls is the Spring Social Project Lead.", "https://spring.io/blog/", "habuma");
 		assertEventTimeSlotData(16L, 1L, "DINNER", "2011-10-26 18:30:00.0", "2011-10-26 19:30:00.0");
 
 		loader.loadEventData(SHOW_ID);
 		assertRowCounts(1, 1, 86, 37, 113);
 		assertEventData("SpringOne/2GX", "America/Boise", "2012-06-09 00:00:00.0", "2012-06-12 23:59:59.0", "SGX");
 		assertVenueData("Pocatello Convention Center", "1234 South Arizona Drive null Pocatello, ID 83201", 41.8920052, -87.6247001, "Pocatello, ID", 1L);
-		assertLeaderData("Mr. Craig Walls", "Craig Walls is the Spring Social Project Lead and an avid collector of American Way magazines.", "http://blog.springsource.com/author/craigwalls/", "habumadude");
+		assertLeaderData("Mr. Craig Walls", "Craig Walls is the Spring Social Project Lead and an avid collector of American Way magazines.", "https://spring.io/blog/", "habumadude");
 		assertEventTimeSlotData(16L, 1L, "SUPPER", "2012-06-10 18:30:00.0", "2012-06-10 19:30:00.0");
 	}
 
diff --git a/src/test/java/com/springsource/greenhouse/events/load/show_short.json b/src/test/java/com/springsource/greenhouse/events/load/show_short.json
index 3cbfe02c..5ca8fc34 100644
--- a/src/test/java/com/springsource/greenhouse/events/load/show_short.json
+++ b/src/test/java/com/springsource/greenhouse/events/load/show_short.json
@@ -16,10 +16,10 @@
         "country": "United States", 
         "countryCode": "US", 
         "description": "Chicago Marriott Downtown Magnificent Mile", 
-        "googleMapLink": "http://maps.google.com/maps?q=540+North+Michigan+Avenue,+Chicago,+IL+60611&hl=en", 
+        "googleMapLink": "https://maps.google.com/maps?q=540+North+Michigan+Avenue,+Chicago,+IL+60611&hl=en", 
         "latitude": 41.8920052, 
         "longitude": -87.6247001, 
-        "mapLink": "http://maps.google.com/maps?q=540+North+Michigan+Avenue,+Chicago,+IL+60611&hl=en", 
+        "mapLink": "https://maps.google.com/maps?q=540+North+Michigan+Avenue,+Chicago,+IL+60611&hl=en", 
         "metro": "Chicago", 
         "metroArea": "Chicago, IL", 
         "metroNoSpace": "Chicago", 
diff --git a/src/test/java/com/springsource/greenhouse/events/load/show_short_updated.json b/src/test/java/com/springsource/greenhouse/events/load/show_short_updated.json
index 3cfde557..1354e03c 100644
--- a/src/test/java/com/springsource/greenhouse/events/load/show_short_updated.json
+++ b/src/test/java/com/springsource/greenhouse/events/load/show_short_updated.json
@@ -16,10 +16,10 @@
         "country": "United States", 
         "countryCode": "US", 
         "description": "Pocatello Convention Center", 
-        "googleMapLink": "http://maps.google.com/maps?q=1234+South+Arizona+Drive,+Pocatello,+ID+83201&hl=en", 
+        "googleMapLink": "https://maps.google.com/maps?q=1234+South+Arizona+Drive,+Pocatello,+ID+83201&hl=en", 
         "latitude": 41.8920052, 
         "longitude": -87.6247001, 
-        "mapLink": "http://maps.google.com/maps?q=1234+South+Arizona+Drive,+Pocatello,+ID+83201&hl=en", 
+        "mapLink": "https://maps.google.com/maps?q=1234+South+Arizona+Drive,+Pocatello,+ID+83201&hl=en", 
         "metro": "Pocatello", 
         "metroArea": "Pocatello, ID", 
         "metroNoSpace": "Pocatello", 
diff --git a/src/test/java/com/springsource/greenhouse/events/load/show_speakers.json b/src/test/java/com/springsource/greenhouse/events/load/show_speakers.json
index bce4d9b8..41144edb 100644
--- a/src/test/java/com/springsource/greenhouse/events/load/show_speakers.json
+++ b/src/test/java/com/springsource/greenhouse/events/load/show_speakers.json
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
     {
         "archived": false, 
         "bio": "Adrian Colyer is the CTO of SpringSource and has more than a dozen years of experience leading teams in Java and enterprise middleware.\r\n\r\nAdrian Colyer is the leader of the AspectJ open source project and a well-known industry expert on the topic of aspect-oriented programming (AOP). He is a co-author of the book \"Eclipse AspectJ : Aspect-Oriented Programming in Eclipse with AspectJ and AJDT,\" and has also published numerous book chapters, articles and published papers. His short essay, \"AOP without the buzzwords\" has been described as \"the best explanation of AOP, ever.\"\r\n\r\nIn 2004, Adrian was recognized as one of the top 100 young innovators in the world by MIT Technology Review for his contributions to the development and adoption of aspect-oriented programming in industry.\r\n\r\nAdrian founded the AspectJ Development Tools project (AJDT) on Eclipse.org in 2003, a project that continues to lead the world in providing IDE support for AOP. As leader of the AspectJ project, Adrian has overseen several releases of the compiler and designed and implemented many of the AspectJ 5 language extensions to support Java 5 features.\r\nPrior to joining SpringSource, Adrian gained over a decade of experience in building enterprise middleware at IBM. Whilst there he oversaw the introduction of aspect-oriented programming to many IBM development teams.\r\n\r\nAdrian holds a BSc, Computer Science from University of Southampton.", 
-        "blogLink": "http://blog.interface21.com/main/author/adrianc", 
+        "blogLink": "https://spring.io/blog", 
         "cacheName": "adrian_colyer", 
         "customImage": null, 
         "displayTweets": true, 
@@ -102,8 +102,8 @@
     }, 
     {
         "archived": false, 
-        "bio": "Andres is a Java/Groovy developer and Java Champion, with more than 11 years of experience in software design and development. He has been involved in web and desktop application developments since the early days of Java. He has also been teacher of computer science courses in the most prestigious education institute in Mexico. His current interests include Groovy and Swing. He is a true believer of open source and has participated in popular projects like Groovy, Griffon, JMatter and DbUnit, as well as starting his own projects (Json-lib, EZMorph, GraphicsBuilder, JideBuilder). Founding member and current project lead of the Griffon framework. He blogs periodically at http://jroller.com/aalmiray. You can find him on twitter too as @aalmiray. He likes to spend time with his beloved wife, Ixchel, when not hacking around. ", 
-        "blogLink": "http://jroller.com/aalmiray", 
+        "bio": "Andres is a Java/Groovy developer and Java Champion, with more than 11 years of experience in software design and development. He has been involved in web and desktop application developments since the early days of Java. He has also been teacher of computer science courses in the most prestigious education institute in Mexico. His current interests include Groovy and Swing. He is a true believer of open source and has participated in popular projects like Groovy, Griffon, JMatter and DbUnit, as well as starting his own projects (Json-lib, EZMorph, GraphicsBuilder, JideBuilder). Founding member and current project lead of the Griffon framework. He blogs periodically at https://jroller.com/aalmiray. You can find him on twitter too as @aalmiray. He likes to spend time with his beloved wife, Ixchel, when not hacking around. ", 
+        "blogLink": "https://jroller.com/aalmiray", 
         "cacheName": "andres_almiray", 
         "customImage": null, 
         "displayTweets": true, 
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@
     {
         "archived": false, 
         "bio": "Andrew Eisenberg is the lead of the Groovy-Eclipse project and also works on the Grails tooling portion of the SpringSource Tool Suite.  He is also the prooject lead for the AspectJ Development Tools (AJDT) at Eclipse.org.  Andrew creates IDE tools that ease the cognitive burden of creating complex programs. He will not rest and not be happy until programming is as fun and easy as playing with legos.  Andrew has a PhD in Computer Science from the University of British Columbia where he researched the intersection between programming languages and tools.", 
-        "blogLink": "http://contraptionsforprogramming.blogspot.com/", 
+        "blogLink": "https://contraptionsforprogramming.blogspot.com/", 
         "cacheName": "andrew_eisenberg", 
         "customImage": null, 
         "displayTweets": false, 
@@ -216,8 +216,8 @@
     }, 
     {
         "archived": false, 
-        "bio": "Dr Ben Alex is a Principal Software Engineer with SpringSource, and has been working professionally in software since 1995. Ben founded the Spring Security project in 2003 and led its development into a popular, open-source security framework that is used in numerous government, banking and military installations. More recently Ben founded and serves as lead of the Spring Roo and Spring Shell projects, both of which deliver significant productivity and usability benefits to those using Spring technologies.\r\n\r\nBen's career history also includes other roles in software development and business. From 2005 until 2008, he led the establishment and exponential growth of SpringSource's operations in Asia-Pacific. Prior to SpringSource, Ben founded and grew a successful Australian software company, Acegi Technology Pty Limited. He has been a director and advisor to businesses in diverse industries including business services, intellectual property licensing and ecommerce.\r\n\r\nIn recent years, Ben has presented at technology conferences including JavaOne, The Server Side Java Symposium, JAOO, Oredev, SpringOne and The Spring Experience. He is a regular guest presenter at user groups across the world, with recent appearances in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Canberra, Perth, Singapore, Wellington, Auckland, Christchurch and Stockholm. He also authored the security chapter of the Wiley book, \"Professional J2EE Development with Spring Framework,\" and maintains a blog at http://blog.springsource.com/main/author/bena/.", 
-        "blogLink": "http://blog.springsource.com/author/bena/", 
+        "bio": "Dr Ben Alex is a Principal Software Engineer with SpringSource, and has been working professionally in software since 1995. Ben founded the Spring Security project in 2003 and led its development into a popular, open-source security framework that is used in numerous government, banking and military installations. More recently Ben founded and serves as lead of the Spring Roo and Spring Shell projects, both of which deliver significant productivity and usability benefits to those using Spring technologies.\r\n\r\nBen's career history also includes other roles in software development and business. From 2005 until 2008, he led the establishment and exponential growth of SpringSource's operations in Asia-Pacific. Prior to SpringSource, Ben founded and grew a successful Australian software company, Acegi Technology Pty Limited. He has been a director and advisor to businesses in diverse industries including business services, intellectual property licensing and ecommerce.\r\n\r\nIn recent years, Ben has presented at technology conferences including JavaOne, The Server Side Java Symposium, JAOO, Oredev, SpringOne and The Spring Experience. He is a regular guest presenter at user groups across the world, with recent appearances in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Canberra, Perth, Singapore, Wellington, Auckland, Christchurch and Stockholm. He also authored the security chapter of the Wiley book, \"Professional J2EE Development with Spring Framework,\" and maintains a blog at https://spring.io/blog/.", 
+        "blogLink": "https://spring.io/blog/", 
         "cacheName": "ben_alex", 
         "customImage": null, 
         "displayTweets": true, 
@@ -305,7 +305,7 @@
     {
         "archived": false, 
         "bio": "Burt Beckwith is a Java and Groovy developer with over ten years of experience in a variety of industries including biotech, travel, e-learning, social networking, and financial services. For the past three years he's been working with Grails and Groovy full-time. Along the way he's created over fifteen Grails plugins and made significant contributions to several others. He was the technical editor for Grails in Action.", 
-        "blogLink": "http://burtbeckwith.com/blog/", 
+        "blogLink": "https://burtbeckwith.com/blog/", 
         "cacheName": "burt_beckwith", 
         "customImage": null, 
         "displayTweets": true, 
@@ -343,7 +343,7 @@
     {
         "archived": false, 
         "bio": "Chris is an engineer for SpringSource and a member of the core Spring Framework development team.  Chris joined SpringSource (then Interface21) in 2007, focused on training, consulting and leading the development effort to bring code-based configuration to the core Spring container.  In 2010, Chris transitioned to full-time engineering, and continues to focus on Spring Framework development.  You can find him online as @cbeams at both GitHub and Twitter.", 
-        "blogLink": "http://blog.springsource.com/author/cbeams", 
+        "blogLink": "https://spring.io/blog/", 
         "cacheName": "chris_beams", 
         "customImage": null, 
         "displayTweets": false, 
@@ -469,7 +469,7 @@
     {
         "archived": false, 
         "bio": "Colin Harrington is a Senior Consultant at Object Partners, Inc with over 3.5 years of Grails experience. Based in Minnesota, Colin has 10+ years of experience developing web-based applications.  \r\n\r\nColin is an agile practitioner and has been a key component of many powerful fast-paced local and remote teams with varying levels of composition and ability.  He is a Technical leader and a forward thinker with a knack for delivering potent and engaging web-applications.\r\n\r\nColin is an active member of the Groovy and Grails community and an active speaker at local user groups, events and conferences such as MinneBar, GUM, GR8Conf in the US, etc.  ", 
-        "blogLink": "http://www.colinharrington.net/blog", 
+        "blogLink": "https://www.colinharrington.net/blog", 
         "cacheName": "colin_harrington", 
         "customImage": null, 
         "displayTweets": true, 
@@ -519,7 +519,7 @@
     {
         "archived": false, 
         "bio": "Costin Leau is an engineer within the SpringSource. His interests include data access and aspect oriented programming. With significant development experience, Costin has worked on various Spring Framework features (cache abstraction, JPA, java config), led the Spring Dynamic Modules (Spring OSGi probject) and the Spring-inspired, OSGi 4.2 Blueprint Service RI. Currently Costin is working in the NOSQL and Big Data area, leading the Spring integration with GemFire, Hadoop and Redis.", 
-        "blogLink": "http://blog.springsource.com/author/costinl/", 
+        "blogLink": "https://spring.io/blog/", 
         "cacheName": "costin_leau", 
         "customImage": null, 
         "displayTweets": true, 
@@ -569,7 +569,7 @@
     {
         "archived": false, 
         "bio": "Craig Walls is the Spring Social Project Lead.", 
-        "blogLink": "http://blog.springsource.com/author/cwalls/", 
+        "blogLink": "https://spring.io/blog/", 
         "cacheName": "craig_walls", 
         "customImage": null, 
         "displayTweets": true, 
@@ -631,8 +631,8 @@
     }, 
     {
         "archived": false, 
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+        "bio": "As a Solutions Architect on the Field Engineering Team for Terracotta, Eric Mizell helps enterprise IT organizations improve their service availability and application performance through the application of the industry leading Terracotta Java Scalability Technology. Prior to Terracotta, Eric was the lead architect for a large scale insurance application. He has over 15 years of experience designing and developing enterprise systems where performance and scalability were essential. Eric has presented at NFJS, AJUG, SUG, and blogs about Java and caching at https://javaquip.blogspot.com/.", 
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         "bio": "Core member of the Grails development team, Jeff Brown, is a Senior Software Engineer with SpringSource. Jeff has been involved in designing and building object oriented systems for over 15 years. Jeff's areas of expertise include web development with Groovy & Grails, Java and agile development.", 
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         "bio": "Keith Donald is a principal and founding partner at SpringSource, the company behind Spring and a division of VMware.  At SpringSource, Keith is a full-time member of the Spring development team focusing on web application development productivity.  He is also the architect behind SpringSource's state-of-the-art training curriculum, which has provided practical Spring training to over 10,000 students worldwide.\r\n\r\nOver his career, Keith, an experienced enterprise software developer and mentor, has built business applications for customers spanning a diverse set of industries including banking, network management, information assurance, education, retail, and healthcare. He is particularly skilled at translating business requirements into technical solutions.", 
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+        "bio": "Peter Niederwieser is a computer language enthusiast from Linz, Austria. Having used Java since 1997, Peter nowadays prefers to work with more flexible languages - in particular Groovy, Scala, and Clojure. Peter is the creator of <href a=\"http://spockframework.org\">Spock</href> and a Groovy committer. \r\n\r\nIn his day job, Peter is a Principal Software Engineer at <href a=\"https://gradleware.com\">Gradleware</href>.", 
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+        "bio": "Ramnivas Laddad is a <a href=\"https://springsource.com\" target=\"new\">SpringSource</a> Principal Enginner. He has over a decade of experience in applying his enterprise Java and aspect-oriented programming (AOP) expertise to middleware, design automation, networking, web application, user interface, and security projects.\r\n\r\nRamnivas Laddad is a well-known expert in enterprise Java, especially in the area of AOP and Spring. He is the author of AspectJ in Action, the best-selling book on AOP and AspectJ that has been lauded by industry experts for its presentation of practical and innovative AOP applications to solve real-world problems. Ramnivas, a Spring framework committer, is also an active presenter at leading industry events such as JavaOne, JavaPolis, No Fluff Just Stuff, SpringOne, Software Development, and has been an active member of both the AspectJ and Spring communities from their beginnings.", 
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         "bio": "Rob Winch is currently a Senior Software Engineer at VMware and is the project lead of the Spring Security framework. In the past he has worked as a Software Architect at Cerner, the largest provider of electronic medical systems in the US, securing health care applications. Throughout his career he has developed hands on experience integrating Spring Security with an array of security standards (i.e. LDAP, SAML, CAS, OAuth, etc). Before his focus was security he worked as an independent web contractor, in proteomics research at Loyola University Chicago, and on the Globus Toolkit at Argonne National Laboratory. His interests include web security and identity management, high performance computing, and ALM tooling. When he is not sitting in front of a computer he enjoys participating in a variety of intramural sports and playing guitar.", 
-        "blogLink": "http://rwinch.blogspot.com", 
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         "bio": "Rod Johnson is the father of Spring, which grew out of his influential book, \u201cExpert One-on-One J2EE Design and Development,\u201d which initiated the \u201clightweight\u201d transformation of enterprise Java.  Rod co-founded SpringSource, where he served as CEO until its 2009 acquisition by VMware, where he is now a Senior Vice President.\r\n\r\nRod is an authority on enterprise Java architecture, a thought leader on open source development and business models, and a popular speaker at conferences around the world.\r\n\r\nRod has over 15 years technology, management and business experience. He holds a BA with Honors in Computer Science, Mathematics and Musicology as well as a PhD from the University of Sydney.\r\n\r\n", 
-        "blogLink": "http://blog.interface21.com/main/author/rodj", 
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     {
         "archived": false, 
         "bio": "I began my career as a C/C++ programmer working on VINES, a distributed directory services product at Banyan Systems. Over the years I've worked on various Java Web applications including a set of multi-tenant e-commerce web applications, an investment accounting system, a trading and risk management system, and others. \r\n\r\nI've been using Spring and many of the Spring projects since 2006. I've helped many to learn or to use Spring more effectively through teaching and consulting. Presently I am a comitter on the Spring MVC and the Spring Web Flow projects. My current home is New York city.", 
-        "blogLink": "http://rossenstoyanchev.org/blog/", 
+        "blogLink": "https://sarah.runtnc.net/tr?id=01590f6d355ab4406e80de1175ab872d909998d6ce.r&tk=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJwdWIiOiI1MjJjNjE1YTlhODQ4MGNhYjhiMTA0MTIiLCJ0cyI6IjAzMjAyMTMxIiwiZCI6InJvc3NlbnN0b3lhbmNoZXYub3JnIn0.H4xHH_cPDVEROAWWBON57EACa2eqJymF7RZliLtsHwA", 
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-        "bio": "Scott is a member of the web products team at SpringSource, where he focuses on creating and sustaining rich web applications and frameworks.  Scott is the creator of the <a href=\"http://www.springsource.com/repository\">SpringSource Enterprise Bundle Repository</a>, a production web application built on Spring 2.5, Spring MVC, and Spring JavaScript.  He is also an expert in UI design, style, accessibility, and particularly skilled in interacting with customers to map business requirements to innovative software solutions.  Over the course of his career, Scott has lead the successful development of mission-critical web applications in the areas of academia and technology infrastructure.", 
+        "bio": "Scott is a member of the web products team at SpringSource, where he focuses on creating and sustaining rich web applications and frameworks.  Scott is the creator of the <a href=\"https://www.springsource.com/repository\">SpringSource Enterprise Bundle Repository</a>, a production web application built on Spring 2.5, Spring MVC, and Spring JavaScript.  He is also an expert in UI design, style, accessibility, and particularly skilled in interacting with customers to map business requirements to innovative software solutions.  Over the course of his career, Scott has lead the successful development of mission-critical web applications in the areas of academia and technology infrastructure.", 
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-        "bio": "Scott Davis is the founder of <a href=\"http://thirstyhead.com\">ThirstyHead.com</a>, a training company that specializes in Groovy and Grails training.\r\n\r\nScott published one of the first public websites implemented in Grails in 2006 and has been actively working with the technology ever since. Author of the book <a href=\"http://www.pragprog.com/titles/sdgrvr/groovy-recipes\">Groovy Recipes: Greasing the Wheels of Java</a> and two ongoing IBM developerWorks article series (<a href=\"http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/views/java/libraryview.jsp?search_by=mastering+grails\">Mastering Grails</a> and in 2009, <a href=\"http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/views/java/libraryview.jsp?search_by=practically+groovy\">Practically Groovy</a>), Scott writes extensively about how Groovy and Grails are the future of Java development. \r\n\r\n", 
+        "bio": "Scott Davis is the founder of <a href=\"https://thirstyhead.com\">ThirstyHead.com</a>, a training company that specializes in Groovy and Grails training.\r\n\r\nScott published one of the first public websites implemented in Grails in 2006 and has been actively working with the technology ever since. Author of the book <a href=\"https://www.pragprog.com/titles/sdgrvr/groovy-recipes\">Groovy Recipes: Greasing the Wheels of Java</a> and two ongoing IBM developerWorks article series (<a href=\"https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/views/java/libraryview.jsp?search_by=mastering+grails\">Mastering Grails</a> and in 2009, <a href=\"https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/views/java/libraryview.jsp?search_by=practically+groovy\">Practically Groovy</a>), Scott writes extensively about how Groovy and Grails are the future of Java development. \r\n\r\n", 
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         "archived": false, 
         "bio": "Shawn Hartsock consults on Java technologies like Groovy/Grails and the Spring Framework providing expertise as an experienced Java developer and architect. Shawn discovered Groovy in 2007 and began working in Grails development for deployment to Java Enterprise environments and integration with Existing Java Enterprise software. He has contributed several Grails plugins to the Grails community and has had several articles published in Groovy Magazine on various topics including Enterprise Integration with Grails. \r\n", 
-        "blogLink": "http://hartsock.blogspot.com/", 
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         "bio": "Thomas has been a developer on the Spring Framework project since early 2003, contributing to enhancements of the JDBC framework portion.\r\n\r\nThomas currently works as a consultant for SpringSource specializing in Java EE and database projects. He has been involved with developing database applications, both as a DBA and as an application developer for over 20 years, using a wide variety of languages and databases. \r\n\r\nThomas is co-author of \"Professional Java Development with the Spring Framework\" together with Rod Johnson, Juergen Hoeller, Alef Arendsen, and Colin Sampaleanu, published by Wrox in 2005.", 
-        "blogLink": "http://jroller.com/buggybean/", 
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         "archived": false, 
-        "bio": "Tim is a full-stack generalist and passionate teacher who loves coding, presenting, and working with people. He believes the best developer is one who is well-informed of specifics and can also make deep connections between software development and the broader world. He has recently been exploring non-relational data stores, continuous deployment, and how software architecture should resemble an ant colony.\r\n\r\nHis firm, the <a href=\"http://augusttechgroup.com\">August Technology Group</a>, helps clients with product development, technology consulting, and technology upgrade projects atop the JVM. The August Group's technology preferences reflect the generalist sensibilities of its founder, and its development practices are always lightweight, self-improving, and humanizing by design.\r\n\r\nTim is a speaker internationally and on the <a href=\"http://nofluffjuststuff.com\">No Fluff Just Stuff</a> tour in the United States, and is co-president of the <a href=\"http://denveropensource.org\">Denver Open Source User Group</a> in the Denver area, co-author of the <a href=\"http://refcardz.dzone.com/refcardz/functional-programming-clojure\">DZone Clojure RefCard</a>, co-presenter of the best-selling <a href=\"http://bit.ly/ogitvid\">O'Reilly Git Master Class</a>, co-author of <a href=\"http://oreilly.com/catalog/0636920019909/\">Building and Testing with Gradle</a>, and a member of the <a href=\"http://oreilly.com/pub/expert/timberglund\">O'Reilly Expert Network</a>.\r\n\r\nHe lives in Littleton, CO with the wife of his youth and their three children.\r\n", 
+        "bio": "Tim is a full-stack generalist and passionate teacher who loves coding, presenting, and working with people. He believes the best developer is one who is well-informed of specifics and can also make deep connections between software development and the broader world. He has recently been exploring non-relational data stores, continuous deployment, and how software architecture should resemble an ant colony.\r\n\r\nHis firm, the <a href=\"http://www.augusttechgroup.com/?from=@\">August Technology Group</a>, helps clients with product development, technology consulting, and technology upgrade projects atop the JVM. The August Group's technology preferences reflect the generalist sensibilities of its founder, and its development practices are always lightweight, self-improving, and humanizing by design.\r\n\r\nTim is a speaker internationally and on the <a href=\"https://nofluffjuststuff.com\">No Fluff Just Stuff</a> tour in the United States, and is co-president of the <a href=\"http://denveropensource.org\">Denver Open Source User Group</a> in the Denver area, co-author of the <a href=\"https://dzone.com/refcardz/functional-programming-clojure\">DZone Clojure RefCard</a>, co-presenter of the best-selling <a href=\"https://bit.ly/ogitvid\">O'Reilly Git Master Class</a>, co-author of <a href=\"https://oreilly.com/catalog/0636920019909/\">Building and Testing with Gradle</a>, and a member of the <a href=\"https://oreilly.com/pub/expert/timberglund\">O'Reilly Expert Network</a>.\r\n\r\nHe lives in Littleton, CO with the wife of his youth and their three children.\r\n", 
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         "archived": false, 
         "bio": "Tom McCuch is a Senior Sales Engineer for SpringSource with over twenty years of experience in software engineering. Tom specializes in the architecture, implementation, and deployment of distributed systems requiring high Reliability, Availability, and Scalability (RAS) features. Before joining SpringSource, Tom consulted enterprise clients across multiple industries in the architecture of mission-critical solutions based on open source software as well as led the engineering of enterprise Java middleware supporting next-generation telecommunications products deployed at tier-1 telcos both in the U.S. and Europe.", 
-        "blogLink": "http://tom-mccuch.blogspot.com/", 
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         "bio": "Adrian Colyer is the CTO of SpringSource and has more than a dozen years of experience leading teams in Java and enterprise middleware.\r\n\r\nAdrian Colyer is the leader of the AspectJ open source project and a well-known industry expert on the topic of aspect-oriented programming (AOP). He is a co-author of the book \"Eclipse AspectJ : Aspect-Oriented Programming in Eclipse with AspectJ and AJDT,\" and has also published numerous book chapters, articles and published papers. His short essay, \"AOP without the buzzwords\" has been described as \"the best explanation of AOP, ever.\"\r\n\r\nIn 2004, Adrian was recognized as one of the top 100 young innovators in the world by MIT Technology Review for his contributions to the development and adoption of aspect-oriented programming in industry.\r\n\r\nAdrian founded the AspectJ Development Tools project (AJDT) on Eclipse.org in 2003, a project that continues to lead the world in providing IDE support for AOP. As leader of the AspectJ project, Adrian has overseen several releases of the compiler and designed and implemented many of the AspectJ 5 language extensions to support Java 5 features.\r\nPrior to joining SpringSource, Adrian gained over a decade of experience in building enterprise middleware at IBM. Whilst there he oversaw the introduction of aspect-oriented programming to many IBM development teams.\r\n\r\nAdrian holds a BSc, Computer Science from University of Southampton.", 
-        "blogLink": "http://blog.interface21.com/main/author/adrianc", 
+        "blogLink": "https://spring.io/blog", 
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         "archived": false, 
-        "bio": "Andres is a Java/Groovy developer and Java Champion, with more than 11 years of experience in software design and development. He has been involved in web and desktop application developments since the early days of Java. He has also been teacher of computer science courses in the most prestigious education institute in Mexico. His current interests include Groovy and Swing. He is a true believer of open source and has participated in popular projects like Groovy, Griffon, JMatter and DbUnit, as well as starting his own projects (Json-lib, EZMorph, GraphicsBuilder, JideBuilder). Founding member and current project lead of the Griffon framework. He blogs periodically at http://jroller.com/aalmiray. You can find him on twitter too as @aalmiray. He likes to spend time with his beloved wife, Ixchel, when not hacking around. ", 
-        "blogLink": "http://jroller.com/aalmiray", 
+        "bio": "Andres is a Java/Groovy developer and Java Champion, with more than 11 years of experience in software design and development. He has been involved in web and desktop application developments since the early days of Java. He has also been teacher of computer science courses in the most prestigious education institute in Mexico. His current interests include Groovy and Swing. He is a true believer of open source and has participated in popular projects like Groovy, Griffon, JMatter and DbUnit, as well as starting his own projects (Json-lib, EZMorph, GraphicsBuilder, JideBuilder). Founding member and current project lead of the Griffon framework. He blogs periodically at https://jroller.com/aalmiray. You can find him on twitter too as @aalmiray. He likes to spend time with his beloved wife, Ixchel, when not hacking around. ", 
+        "blogLink": "https://jroller.com/aalmiray", 
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         "archived": false, 
         "bio": "Andrew Eisenberg is the lead of the Groovy-Eclipse project and also works on the Grails tooling portion of the SpringSource Tool Suite.  He is also the prooject lead for the AspectJ Development Tools (AJDT) at Eclipse.org.  Andrew creates IDE tools that ease the cognitive burden of creating complex programs. He will not rest and not be happy until programming is as fun and easy as playing with legos.  Andrew has a PhD in Computer Science from the University of British Columbia where he researched the intersection between programming languages and tools.", 
-        "blogLink": "http://contraptionsforprogramming.blogspot.com/", 
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-        "bio": "Dr Ben Alex is a Principal Software Engineer with SpringSource, and has been working professionally in software since 1995. Ben founded the Spring Security project in 2003 and led its development into a popular, open-source security framework that is used in numerous government, banking and military installations. More recently Ben founded and serves as lead of the Spring Roo and Spring Shell projects, both of which deliver significant productivity and usability benefits to those using Spring technologies.\r\n\r\nBen's career history also includes other roles in software development and business. From 2005 until 2008, he led the establishment and exponential growth of SpringSource's operations in Asia-Pacific. Prior to SpringSource, Ben founded and grew a successful Australian software company, Acegi Technology Pty Limited. He has been a director and advisor to businesses in diverse industries including business services, intellectual property licensing and ecommerce.\r\n\r\nIn recent years, Ben has presented at technology conferences including JavaOne, The Server Side Java Symposium, JAOO, Oredev, SpringOne and The Spring Experience. He is a regular guest presenter at user groups across the world, with recent appearances in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Canberra, Perth, Singapore, Wellington, Auckland, Christchurch and Stockholm. He also authored the security chapter of the Wiley book, \"Professional J2EE Development with Spring Framework,\" and maintains a blog at http://blog.springsource.com/main/author/bena/.", 
-        "blogLink": "http://blog.springsource.com/author/bena/", 
+        "bio": "Dr Ben Alex is a Principal Software Engineer with SpringSource, and has been working professionally in software since 1995. Ben founded the Spring Security project in 2003 and led its development into a popular, open-source security framework that is used in numerous government, banking and military installations. More recently Ben founded and serves as lead of the Spring Roo and Spring Shell projects, both of which deliver significant productivity and usability benefits to those using Spring technologies.\r\n\r\nBen's career history also includes other roles in software development and business. From 2005 until 2008, he led the establishment and exponential growth of SpringSource's operations in Asia-Pacific. Prior to SpringSource, Ben founded and grew a successful Australian software company, Acegi Technology Pty Limited. He has been a director and advisor to businesses in diverse industries including business services, intellectual property licensing and ecommerce.\r\n\r\nIn recent years, Ben has presented at technology conferences including JavaOne, The Server Side Java Symposium, JAOO, Oredev, SpringOne and The Spring Experience. He is a regular guest presenter at user groups across the world, with recent appearances in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Canberra, Perth, Singapore, Wellington, Auckland, Christchurch and Stockholm. He also authored the security chapter of the Wiley book, \"Professional J2EE Development with Spring Framework,\" and maintains a blog at https://spring.io/blog/.", 
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         "bio": "Burt Beckwith is a Java and Groovy developer with over ten years of experience in a variety of industries including biotech, travel, e-learning, social networking, and financial services. For the past three years he's been working with Grails and Groovy full-time. Along the way he's created over fifteen Grails plugins and made significant contributions to several others. He was the technical editor for Grails in Action.", 
-        "blogLink": "http://burtbeckwith.com/blog/", 
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         "bio": "Chris is an engineer for SpringSource and a member of the core Spring Framework development team.  Chris joined SpringSource (then Interface21) in 2007, focused on training, consulting and leading the development effort to bring code-based configuration to the core Spring container.  In 2010, Chris transitioned to full-time engineering, and continues to focus on Spring Framework development.  You can find him online as @cbeams at both GitHub and Twitter.", 
-        "blogLink": "http://blog.springsource.com/author/cbeams", 
+        "blogLink": "https://spring.io/blog/", 
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         "bio": "Colin Harrington is a Senior Consultant at Object Partners, Inc with over 3.5 years of Grails experience. Based in Minnesota, Colin has 10+ years of experience developing web-based applications.  \r\n\r\nColin is an agile practitioner and has been a key component of many powerful fast-paced local and remote teams with varying levels of composition and ability.  He is a Technical leader and a forward thinker with a knack for delivering potent and engaging web-applications.\r\n\r\nColin is an active member of the Groovy and Grails community and an active speaker at local user groups, events and conferences such as MinneBar, GUM, GR8Conf in the US, etc.  ", 
-        "blogLink": "http://www.colinharrington.net/blog", 
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         "bio": "Costin Leau is an engineer within the SpringSource. His interests include data access and aspect oriented programming. With significant development experience, Costin has worked on various Spring Framework features (cache abstraction, JPA, java config), led the Spring Dynamic Modules (Spring OSGi probject) and the Spring-inspired, OSGi 4.2 Blueprint Service RI. Currently Costin is working in the NOSQL and Big Data area, leading the Spring integration with GemFire, Hadoop and Redis.", 
-        "blogLink": "http://blog.springsource.com/author/costinl/", 
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         "archived": false, 
         "bio": "Craig Walls is the Spring Social Project Lead and an avid collector of American Way magazines.", 
-        "blogLink": "http://blog.springsource.com/author/craigwalls/", 
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-        "bio": "Dave is a consultant helping organizations of all sizes to develop applications more quickly (and have more fun doing it) with Grails.  Dave has been involved in enterprise software development for the past 15 years. He has worked as a developer, architect, project manager, mentor and trainer. Dave has presented at user groups and national conferences. He is also the founder of the Capital Java User Group in Madison, Wisconsin, the Gateway Groovy Users in St. Louis, MO, and the author of <a href=\"http://www.pragprog.com/titles/dkgrails/grails\">Grails: A Quick-Start Guide</a>, published by the Pragmatic Programmers. . Dave's Groovy and Grails related thoughts can be found at <a href=\"http://dave-klein.blogspot.com\" >http://dave-klein.blogspot.com</a>", 
-        "blogLink": "http://dave-klein.blogspot.com", 
+        "bio": "Dave is a consultant helping organizations of all sizes to develop applications more quickly (and have more fun doing it) with Grails.  Dave has been involved in enterprise software development for the past 15 years. He has worked as a developer, architect, project manager, mentor and trainer. Dave has presented at user groups and national conferences. He is also the founder of the Capital Java User Group in Madison, Wisconsin, the Gateway Groovy Users in St. Louis, MO, and the author of <a href=\"https://www.pragprog.com/titles/dkgrails/grails\">Grails: A Quick-Start Guide</a>, published by the Pragmatic Programmers. . Dave's Groovy and Grails related thoughts can be found at <a href=\"https://dave-klein.blogspot.com\" >https://dave-klein.blogspot.com</a>", 
+        "blogLink": "https://dave-klein.blogspot.com", 
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         "bio": "Derek Henninger is the director of R&D for the SpringSource tools, including STS, Roo, and WaveMaker. Derek joined VMware through the acquisition of WaveMaker Software.  At WaveMaker Derek led the development and definition of the WaveMaker Studio development product.  Derek has over 20 years of experience in development tools, including Progress Software, Persistence Software, and Metaphor.", 
-        "blogLink": "http://dev.wavemaker.com/blog/", 
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         "archived": true, 
-        "bio": "As a Solutions Architect on the Field Engineering Team for Terracotta, Eric Mizell helps enterprise IT organizations improve their service availability and application performance through the application of the industry leading Terracotta Java Scalability Technology. Prior to Terracotta, Eric was the lead architect for a large scale insurance application. He has over 15 years of experience designing and developing enterprise systems where performance and scalability were essential. Eric has presented at NFJS, AJUG, SUG, and blogs about Java and caching at http://javaquip.blogspot.com/.", 
+        "bio": "As a Solutions Architect on the Field Engineering Team for Terracotta, Eric Mizell helps enterprise IT organizations improve their service availability and application performance through the application of the industry leading Terracotta Java Scalability Technology. Prior to Terracotta, Eric was the lead architect for a large scale insurance application. He has over 15 years of experience designing and developing enterprise systems where performance and scalability were essential. Eric has presented at NFJS, AJUG, SUG, and blogs about Java and caching at https://javaquip.blogspot.com/.", 
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         "cacheName": "eric_mizell", 
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         "archived": false, 
         "bio": "Graeme Rocher is the project lead and co-founder of the Grails web application framework. He's a member of the JSR-241 Expert Group which standardizes the Groovy language. Graeme authored the Definitive Guide to Grails for Apress and is a frequent speaker at JavaOne, JavaPolis, NoFluffJustStuff, JAOO, the Sun TechDays and more. Graeme joined SpringSource in late 2008 upon the acquisition of G2One Inc.  Before founding G2One, Graeme was the CTO of SkillsMatter, a skills transfer company specializing in open source technology and agile software development, where Graeme was in charge of the company's courseware development strategy and general technical direction.", 
-        "blogLink": "http://graemerocher.blogspot.com", 
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         "archived": false, 
         "bio": "As Head of Groovy Development for SpringSource, Guillaume Laforge is the official Groovy Project Manager, and the spec lead of JSR-241, the Java Specification Request that standardizes the Groovy dynamic language. He is also a frequent conference speaker presenting Groovy and Grails at JavaOne, SpringOne, QCon, the Sun TechDays, and JavaPolis. Guillaume also co-authored Groovy in Action along with Dierk K\u00c3\u00b6nig. Before founding G2One, which was acquired by SpringSource in late 2008, and taking the role of VP Technology, Guillaume worked for OCTO Technology, a consultancy focusing on architecture and agile methodologies. While at OCTO, Guillaume developed new offerings around Groovy and Grails for its customers.", 
-        "blogLink": "http://glaforge.appspot.com", 
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-        "bio": "Scott Davis is the founder of <a href=\"http://thirstyhead.com\">ThirstyHead.com</a>, a training company that specializes in Groovy and Grails training.\r\n\r\nScott published one of the first public websites implemented in Grails in 2006 and has been actively working with the technology ever since. Author of the book <a href=\"http://www.pragprog.com/titles/sdgrvr/groovy-recipes\">Groovy Recipes: Greasing the Wheels of Java</a> and two ongoing IBM developerWorks article series (<a href=\"http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/views/java/libraryview.jsp?search_by=mastering+grails\">Mastering Grails</a> and in 2009, <a href=\"http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/views/java/libraryview.jsp?search_by=practically+groovy\">Practically Groovy</a>), Scott writes extensively about how Groovy and Grails are the future of Java development. \r\n\r\n", 
+        "bio": "Scott Davis is the founder of <a href=\"https://thirstyhead.com\">ThirstyHead.com</a>, a training company that specializes in Groovy and Grails training.\r\n\r\nScott published one of the first public websites implemented in Grails in 2006 and has been actively working with the technology ever since. Author of the book <a href=\"https://www.pragprog.com/titles/sdgrvr/groovy-recipes\">Groovy Recipes: Greasing the Wheels of Java</a> and two ongoing IBM developerWorks article series (<a href=\"https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/views/java/libraryview.jsp?search_by=mastering+grails\">Mastering Grails</a> and in 2009, <a href=\"https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/views/java/libraryview.jsp?search_by=practically+groovy\">Practically Groovy</a>), Scott writes extensively about how Groovy and Grails are the future of Java development. \r\n\r\n", 
         "blogLink": null, 
         "cacheName": "scott_davis", 
         "customImage": null, 
@@ -3101,7 +3101,7 @@
     {
         "archived": false, 
         "bio": "Shawn Hartsock consults on Java technologies like Groovy/Grails and the Spring Framework providing expertise as an experienced Java developer and architect. Shawn discovered Groovy in 2007 and began working in Grails development for deployment to Java Enterprise environments and integration with Existing Java Enterprise software. He has contributed several Grails plugins to the Grails community and has had several articles published in Groovy Magazine on various topics including Enterprise Integration with Grails. \r\n", 
-        "blogLink": "http://hartsock.blogspot.com/", 
+        "blogLink": "https://hartsock.blogspot.com/", 
         "cacheName": "shawn_hartsock", 
         "customImage": null, 
         "displayTweets": true, 
@@ -3252,7 +3252,7 @@
     {
         "archived": false, 
         "bio": "Thomas has been a developer on the Spring Framework project since early 2003, contributing to enhancements of the JDBC framework portion.\r\n\r\nThomas currently works as a consultant for SpringSource specializing in Java EE and database projects. He has been involved with developing database applications, both as a DBA and as an application developer for over 20 years, using a wide variety of languages and databases. \r\n\r\nThomas is co-author of \"Professional Java Development with the Spring Framework\" together with Rod Johnson, Juergen Hoeller, Alef Arendsen, and Colin Sampaleanu, published by Wrox in 2005.", 
-        "blogLink": "http://jroller.com/buggybean/", 
+        "blogLink": "https://jroller.com/buggybean/", 
         "cacheName": "thomas_risberg", 
         "customImage": null, 
         "displayTweets": true, 
@@ -3301,7 +3301,7 @@
     }, 
     {
         "archived": false, 
-        "bio": "Tim is a full-stack generalist and passionate teacher who loves coding, presenting, and working with people. He believes the best developer is one who is well-informed of specifics and can also make deep connections between software development and the broader world. He has recently been exploring non-relational data stores, continuous deployment, and how software architecture should resemble an ant colony.\r\n\r\nHis firm, the <a href=\"http://augusttechgroup.com\">August Technology Group</a>, helps clients with product development, technology consulting, and technology upgrade projects atop the JVM. The August Group's technology preferences reflect the generalist sensibilities of its founder, and its development practices are always lightweight, self-improving, and humanizing by design.\r\n\r\nTim is a speaker internationally and on the <a href=\"http://nofluffjuststuff.com\">No Fluff Just Stuff</a> tour in the United States, and is co-president of the <a href=\"http://denveropensource.org\">Denver Open Source User Group</a> in the Denver area, co-author of the <a href=\"http://refcardz.dzone.com/refcardz/functional-programming-clojure\">DZone Clojure RefCard</a>, co-presenter of the best-selling <a href=\"http://bit.ly/ogitvid\">O'Reilly Git Master Class</a>, co-author of <a href=\"http://oreilly.com/catalog/0636920019909/\">Building and Testing with Gradle</a>, and a member of the <a href=\"http://oreilly.com/pub/expert/timberglund\">O'Reilly Expert Network</a>.\r\n\r\nHe lives in Littleton, CO with the wife of his youth and their three children.\r\n", 
+        "bio": "Tim is a full-stack generalist and passionate teacher who loves coding, presenting, and working with people. He believes the best developer is one who is well-informed of specifics and can also make deep connections between software development and the broader world. He has recently been exploring non-relational data stores, continuous deployment, and how software architecture should resemble an ant colony.\r\n\r\nHis firm, the <a href=\"http://www.augusttechgroup.com/?from=@\">August Technology Group</a>, helps clients with product development, technology consulting, and technology upgrade projects atop the JVM. The August Group's technology preferences reflect the generalist sensibilities of its founder, and its development practices are always lightweight, self-improving, and humanizing by design.\r\n\r\nTim is a speaker internationally and on the <a href=\"https://nofluffjuststuff.com\">No Fluff Just Stuff</a> tour in the United States, and is co-president of the <a href=\"http://denveropensource.org\">Denver Open Source User Group</a> in the Denver area, co-author of the <a href=\"https://dzone.com/refcardz/functional-programming-clojure\">DZone Clojure RefCard</a>, co-presenter of the best-selling <a href=\"https://bit.ly/ogitvid\">O'Reilly Git Master Class</a>, co-author of <a href=\"https://oreilly.com/catalog/0636920019909/\">Building and Testing with Gradle</a>, and a member of the <a href=\"https://oreilly.com/pub/expert/timberglund\">O'Reilly Expert Network</a>.\r\n\r\nHe lives in Littleton, CO with the wife of his youth and their three children.\r\n", 
         "blogLink": null, 
         "cacheName": "tim_berglund", 
         "customImage": null, 
@@ -3364,7 +3364,7 @@
     {
         "archived": false, 
         "bio": "Tom McCuch is a Senior Sales Engineer for SpringSource with over twenty years of experience in software engineering. Tom specializes in the architecture, implementation, and deployment of distributed systems requiring high Reliability, Availability, and Scalability (RAS) features. Before joining SpringSource, Tom consulted enterprise clients across multiple industries in the architecture of mission-critical solutions based on open source software as well as led the engineering of enterprise Java middleware supporting next-generation telecommunications products deployed at tier-1 telcos both in the U.S. and Europe.", 
-        "blogLink": "http://tom-mccuch.blogspot.com/", 
+        "blogLink": "https://tom-mccuch.blogspot.com/", 
         "cacheName": "tom_mccuch", 
         "customImage": null, 
         "displayTweets": true, 
diff --git a/src/test/java/com/springsource/greenhouse/events/load/show_topics.json b/src/test/java/com/springsource/greenhouse/events/load/show_topics.json
index 571c1ef9..0d7d5816 100644
--- a/src/test/java/com/springsource/greenhouse/events/load/show_topics.json
+++ b/src/test/java/com/springsource/greenhouse/events/load/show_topics.json
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@
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-        "bliptvCode": "<embed src=\"http://blip.tv/play/gvoFgq7veAA\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"></embed>", 
+        "bliptvCode": "<embed src=\"https://blip.tv/play/gvoFgq7veAA\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"></embed>", 
         "cacheName": "enter_the_gradle", 
         "created": "2010-01-12T18:29:33", 
         "detail": "We'll go through such powerful concepts as: advantages of declarative over imperative build systems, convention over configuration without rigidity, task definitions and dependencies, the benefits of plugins, deep multi-project support, runtime optimizations through partial builds and harvesting existing functionality through Ant and Maven integration as well as strategies for migrating from these build tools. We will demonstrate some of the innovative goodies that come with Gradle out-of-the-box, like smart incremental builds, the Gradle Daemon and the Gradle Wrapper. We show also many of the new features like Eclipse integration, Sonar integration, Heroku integration, C/C++ support and other new plugins.", 
@@ -309,7 +309,7 @@
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         "blipDownloadSize": 2112518, 
         "blipDownloadSizeMB": "2.11", 
-        "bliptvCode": "<embed src=\"http://blip.tv/play/gvoFgq6mAQA\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"></embed>", 
+        "bliptvCode": "<embed src=\"https://blip.tv/play/gvoFgq6mAQA\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"></embed>", 
         "cacheName": "improve_your_java_with_groovy", 
         "created": "2010-11-02T23:49:54", 
         "detail": "Among the topics we'll cover are: parsing and generating XML, simplifying your build, making testing easier, quick database access, working with Spring, and mixing Groovy and Java at the code level.", 
@@ -1531,7 +1531,7 @@
                 "id": 189, 
                 "name": "Gaelyk website", 
                 "topicId": 2897, 
-                "url": "http://gaelyk.appspot.com"
+                "url": "https://gaelyk.appspot.com"
             }
         ], 
         "workshop": false, 
@@ -3138,7 +3138,7 @@
                 "id": 203, 
                 "name": "Demo App Github Repo", 
                 "topicId": 3028, 
-                "url": "http://github.com/springsource/spring-interop-samples"
+                "url": "https://github.com/springsource/spring-interop-samples"
             }
         ], 
         "workshop": false, 
@@ -3673,7 +3673,7 @@
                 "id": 196, 
                 "name": "Slide deck", 
                 "topicId": 3038, 
-                "url": "http://www.slideshare.net/olivergierke/an-introduction-into-spring-data"
+                "url": "https://www.slideshare.net/olivergierke/an-introduction-into-spring-data"
             }
         ], 
         "workshop": false, 
@@ -3884,31 +3884,31 @@
                 "id": 200, 
                 "name": "GORM Plugin", 
                 "topicId": 3043, 
-                "url": "http://spring.neo4j.org/grails"
+                "url": "https://neo4j.com/developer/java/"
             }, 
             {
                 "id": 201, 
                 "name": "JIRA", 
                 "topicId": 3043, 
-                "url": "http://spring.neo4j.org/issues"
+                "url": "https://neo4j.com/developer/java/"
             }, 
             {
                 "id": 202, 
                 "name": "Forum", 
                 "topicId": 3043, 
-                "url": "http://spring.neo4j.org/discussions"
+                "url": "https://neo4j.com/developer/java/"
             }, 
             {
                 "id": 199, 
                 "name": "Source", 
                 "topicId": 3043, 
-                "url": "http://spring.neo4j.org/source"
+                "url": "https://neo4j.com/developer/java/"
             }, 
             {
                 "id": 198, 
                 "name": "Spring Data Neo4j", 
                 "topicId": 3043, 
-                "url": "http://spring.neo4j.org"
+                "url": "https://neo4j.com/developer/java/"
             }
         ], 
         "workshop": false, 
@@ -5380,7 +5380,7 @@
                 "id": 255, 
                 "name": "Slide deck @ Slideshare", 
                 "topicId": 3084, 
-                "url": "http://www.slideshare.net/olivergierke/whoops-where-did-my-architecture-go"
+                "url": "https://www.slideshare.net/olivergierke/whoops-where-did-my-architecture-go"
             }
         ], 
         "workshop": false, 
diff --git a/src/test/java/com/springsource/greenhouse/events/load/show_topics_updated.json b/src/test/java/com/springsource/greenhouse/events/load/show_topics_updated.json
index 54210809..e80d48f0 100644
--- a/src/test/java/com/springsource/greenhouse/events/load/show_topics_updated.json
+++ b/src/test/java/com/springsource/greenhouse/events/load/show_topics_updated.json
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@
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         "blipDownloadSize": 1283899, 
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-        "bliptvCode": "<embed src=\"http://blip.tv/play/gvoFgq7veAA\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"></embed>", 
+        "bliptvCode": "<embed src=\"https://blip.tv/play/gvoFgq7veAA\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"></embed>", 
         "cacheName": "enter_the_gradle", 
         "created": "2010-01-12T18:29:33", 
         "detail": "We'll go through such powerful concepts as: advantages of declarative over imperative build systems, convention over configuration without rigidity, task definitions and dependencies, the benefits of plugins, deep multi-project support, runtime optimizations through partial builds and harvesting existing functionality through Ant and Maven integration as well as strategies for migrating from these build tools. We will demonstrate some of the innovative goodies that come with Gradle out-of-the-box, like smart incremental builds, the Gradle Daemon and the Gradle Wrapper. We show also many of the new features like Eclipse integration, Sonar integration, Heroku integration, C/C++ support and other new plugins.", 
@@ -309,7 +309,7 @@
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         "blipDownloadSize": 2112518, 
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-        "bliptvCode": "<embed src=\"http://blip.tv/play/gvoFgq6mAQA\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"></embed>", 
+        "bliptvCode": "<embed src=\"https://blip.tv/play/gvoFgq6mAQA\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"></embed>", 
         "cacheName": "improve_your_java_with_groovy", 
         "created": "2010-11-02T23:49:54", 
         "detail": "Among the topics we'll cover are: parsing and generating XML, simplifying your build, making testing easier, quick database access, working with Spring, and mixing Groovy and Java at the code level.", 
@@ -1531,7 +1531,7 @@
                 "id": 189, 
                 "name": "Gaelyk website", 
                 "topicId": 2897, 
-                "url": "http://gaelyk.appspot.com"
+                "url": "https://gaelyk.appspot.com"
             }
         ], 
         "workshop": false, 
@@ -3138,7 +3138,7 @@
                 "id": 203, 
                 "name": "Demo App Github Repo", 
                 "topicId": 3028, 
-                "url": "http://github.com/springsource/spring-interop-samples"
+                "url": "https://github.com/springsource/spring-interop-samples"
             }
         ], 
         "workshop": false, 
@@ -3673,7 +3673,7 @@
                 "id": 196, 
                 "name": "Slide deck", 
                 "topicId": 3038, 
-                "url": "http://www.slideshare.net/olivergierke/an-introduction-into-spring-data"
+                "url": "https://www.slideshare.net/olivergierke/an-introduction-into-spring-data"
             }
         ], 
         "workshop": false, 
@@ -3884,31 +3884,31 @@
                 "id": 200, 
                 "name": "GORM Plugin", 
                 "topicId": 3043, 
-                "url": "http://spring.neo4j.org/grails"
+                "url": "https://neo4j.com/developer/java/"
             }, 
             {
                 "id": 201, 
                 "name": "JIRA", 
                 "topicId": 3043, 
-                "url": "http://spring.neo4j.org/issues"
+                "url": "https://neo4j.com/developer/java/"
             }, 
             {
                 "id": 202, 
                 "name": "Forum", 
                 "topicId": 3043, 
-                "url": "http://spring.neo4j.org/discussions"
+                "url": "https://neo4j.com/developer/java/"
             }, 
             {
                 "id": 199, 
                 "name": "Source", 
                 "topicId": 3043, 
-                "url": "http://spring.neo4j.org/source"
+                "url": "https://neo4j.com/developer/java/"
             }, 
             {
                 "id": 198, 
                 "name": "Spring Data Neo4j", 
                 "topicId": 3043, 
-                "url": "http://spring.neo4j.org"
+                "url": "https://neo4j.com/developer/java/"
             }
         ], 
         "workshop": false, 
@@ -5380,7 +5380,7 @@
                 "id": 255, 
                 "name": "Slide deck @ Slideshare", 
                 "topicId": 3084, 
-                "url": "http://www.slideshare.net/olivergierke/whoops-where-did-my-architecture-go"
+                "url": "https://www.slideshare.net/olivergierke/whoops-where-did-my-architecture-go"
             }
         ], 
         "workshop": false, 
diff --git a/src/test/java/com/springsource/greenhouse/invite/TwitterInviteControllerTest.sql b/src/test/java/com/springsource/greenhouse/invite/TwitterInviteControllerTest.sql
index 78155226..409c96fd 100644
--- a/src/test/java/com/springsource/greenhouse/invite/TwitterInviteControllerTest.sql
+++ b/src/test/java/com/springsource/greenhouse/invite/TwitterInviteControllerTest.sql
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 insert into Member (firstName, lastName, email, password, username, gender, birthdate) values ('Craig', 'Walls', 'cwalls@vmware.com', 'password', 'habuma', 'M', '1977-12-01');
 insert into Member (firstName, lastName, email, password, username, gender, birthdate) values ('Keith', 'Donald', 'kdonald@vmware.com', 'password', 'kdonald', 'M', '1977-12-01');
-insert into AccountProvider (name, apiKey, secret, requestTokenUrl, authorizeUrl, accessTokenUrl) values ('twitter', 'whatev', 'secret', 'http://www.twitter.com', 'http://www.twitter.com', 'http://www.twitter.com');
+insert into AccountProvider (name, apiKey, secret, requestTokenUrl, authorizeUrl, accessTokenUrl) values ('twitter', 'whatev', 'secret', 'https://www.twitter.com', 'https://www.twitter.com', 'https://www.twitter.com');
 insert into AccountConnection (member, accountId, provider, accessToken) values (1, 'habuma', 'twitter', 'accesstoken');
diff --git a/src/test/java/com/springsource/greenhouse/members/JdbcProfileRepositoryTest.java b/src/test/java/com/springsource/greenhouse/members/JdbcProfileRepositoryTest.java
index 1105ca0d..3e58bee3 100644
--- a/src/test/java/com/springsource/greenhouse/members/JdbcProfileRepositoryTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/com/springsource/greenhouse/members/JdbcProfileRepositoryTest.java
@@ -83,9 +83,9 @@ private void assertExpectedProfile(Profile profile) {
 	private void assertExpectedConnectedProfiles(List<ConnectedProfile> connectedProfiles) {
 	    assertEquals(2, connectedProfiles.size());
 		assertEquals("Facebook", connectedProfiles.get(0).getName());
-		assertEquals("http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=123456789", connectedProfiles.get(0).getUrl());
+		assertEquals("https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=123456789", connectedProfiles.get(0).getUrl());
 		assertEquals("Twitter", connectedProfiles.get(1).getName());
-		assertEquals("http://www.twitter.com/habuma", connectedProfiles.get(1).getUrl());
+		assertEquals("https://www.twitter.com/habuma", connectedProfiles.get(1).getUrl());
 	}	
 
 }
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/test/java/com/springsource/greenhouse/members/JdbcProfileRepositoryTest.sql b/src/test/java/com/springsource/greenhouse/members/JdbcProfileRepositoryTest.sql
index 2fa1c0b0..98cec54d 100644
--- a/src/test/java/com/springsource/greenhouse/members/JdbcProfileRepositoryTest.sql
+++ b/src/test/java/com/springsource/greenhouse/members/JdbcProfileRepositoryTest.sql
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 insert into Member (firstName, lastName, email, password, username, gender, birthdate) values ('Craig' , 'Walls', 'whatever@vmware.com', 'letmein', 'habuma', 'M', '1977-12-01');
 insert into Member (firstName, lastName, email, password, username, gender, birthdate) values ('Roy' , 'Clarkson', 'roy@vmware.com', 'password', 'roy', 'M', '1977-12-01');
 
-insert into ServiceProvider (name, displayName, implementation, apiKey, secret, requestTokenUrl, authorizeUrl, accessTokenUrl) values ('twitter', 'Twitter', 'whatev', 'whatev', 'secret', 'http://www.twitter.com', 'http://www.twitter.com', 'http://www.twitter.com');
-insert into ServiceProvider (name, displayName, implementation, apiKey, secret, requestTokenUrl, authorizeUrl, accessTokenUrl) values ('facebook', 'Facebook', 'whatev', 'whatev', 'secret', 'http://www.facebook.com', 'http://www.facebook.com', 'http://www.facebook.com');
+insert into ServiceProvider (name, displayName, implementation, apiKey, secret, requestTokenUrl, authorizeUrl, accessTokenUrl) values ('twitter', 'Twitter', 'whatev', 'whatev', 'secret', 'https://www.twitter.com', 'https://www.twitter.com', 'https://www.twitter.com');
+insert into ServiceProvider (name, displayName, implementation, apiKey, secret, requestTokenUrl, authorizeUrl, accessTokenUrl) values ('facebook', 'Facebook', 'whatev', 'whatev', 'secret', 'https://www.facebook.com', 'https://www.facebook.com', 'https://www.facebook.com');
 
-insert into AccountConnection (member, provider, accessToken, accountId, profileUrl) values (1, 'twitter', 'twitter-token', 'habuma', 'http://www.twitter.com/habuma');
-insert into AccountConnection (member, provider, accessToken, accountId, profileUrl) values (1, 'facebook', 'facebook-token', '123456789', 'http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=123456789');
+insert into AccountConnection (member, provider, accessToken, accountId, profileUrl) values (1, 'twitter', 'twitter-token', 'habuma', 'https://www.twitter.com/habuma');
+insert into AccountConnection (member, provider, accessToken, accountId, profileUrl) values (1, 'facebook', 'facebook-token', '123456789', 'https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=123456789');
diff --git a/src/test/java/com/springsource/greenhouse/settings/SettingsControllerTest.sql b/src/test/java/com/springsource/greenhouse/settings/SettingsControllerTest.sql
index 4743b71b..e33107f9 100644
--- a/src/test/java/com/springsource/greenhouse/settings/SettingsControllerTest.sql
+++ b/src/test/java/com/springsource/greenhouse/settings/SettingsControllerTest.sql
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 insert into Member (firstName, lastName, email, password, username, gender, birthdate) values ('Keith' , 'Donald', 'youknow@vmware.com', 'whateveryouwantittobe', 'kdonald', 'M', '1977-12-01');
-insert into App (name, slug, description, website, apiKey, secret, callbackUrl) values ('Greenhouse for the iPhone', 'greenhouse-for-the-iphone', 'Awesome', 'http://www.springsource.com', 'a08318eb478a1ee31f69a55276f3af64', '80e7f8f7ba724aae9103f297e5fb9bdf', 'x-com-springsource-greenhouse://oauth-response');
+insert into App (name, slug, description, website, apiKey, secret, callbackUrl) values ('Greenhouse for the iPhone', 'greenhouse-for-the-iphone', 'Awesome', 'https://www.springsource.com', 'a08318eb478a1ee31f69a55276f3af64', '80e7f8f7ba724aae9103f297e5fb9bdf', 'x-com-springsource-greenhouse://oauth-response');