Empowering the Exceptional Web Experience with the IBM Social Business Toolkit Lotusphere was last week and I had an opportunity to attend one of the jumpstart sessions on 1/15/2012 titled “Empowering the Exceptional Web Experience with the IBM Social Business Toolkit” with Mike Taylor and Paul Bastide, software engineers from IBM.Social Business Toolkit is available on […]
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Mobile Development Best Practices
From Desktops to Mobile and Smart Phones – Lessons Learned This session at Lotusphere 2012 was presented by Usman Memonand focused on lessons learned and best practices many organizations face today when moving to mobile platforms. Some of the key lessons learned are highlighted here. Development Approaches and Considerations Users are attempting to access your […]
WebSphere Portal Mobile Themes
WebSphere Portal Mobile Themes Live from Lotusphere, Tyler Tribe and Jonathan Lidaka gave a presentation titled “Deliver Rich Mobile Experiences with IBM WebSphere Portal Mobile Theme.” First, let’s start with some mobile statistics. Mobile Statistics Within 5 years, 80% of all people will have a mobile device By 2020, 10 billion mobile connected devices Mobile […]
Lotusphere Session Highlights – IBM Connections Auditing and Compliance Infrastructure
IBM Connections Auditing and Compliance Infrastructure I attended a session with Rene Schimmer, Offering Manager, IBM on Connections auditing and compliance. As social business continues to grow and become the norm, auditing and compliance becomes more critical, especially in certain industries that are subject to government regulations. Social Business and Compliance There are quite a […]
Upgrading to WebSphere Portal 7 – Problems with JSF
Anyone who has gone through a WebSphere Portal upgrade and has portlets which use JSF has likely had some issues. I am currently working on a portal 6.0.x to 7.0.x migration and want to share a massive JSF challenge to hopefully spare others some pain. The problem created is that <hx:requestLink /> tags are blocked […]
WebSphere Portal Version 8 Beta
On 9/15/2011 I attended a great session from IBM on the IBM Customer Experience Suite, WebSphere Portal and Web Content Manager Version 8 Beta given by Lauren Wendel, Brian Chaput, Nicole Carrier and Thomas Stober of IBM. They gave some great insight into what new capabilities will be coming in Q3 in the upcoming beta. Four Key Investment […]
Migrating to WebSphere Portal 7: WCM
I am currently working on a project for a customer where we are migrating a very complex portal from WebSphere Portal 6.0.1.3 to 7.0.0.1. There is quite a bit going which has to be migrated including Personalization rules, JSF portlets, Spring MVC portlets, customized WebSphere caches and shared libraries, customized WebSphere Portal configuration, content nodes, […]
12 Things to Get Your Portal in Production Quickly: Wrap Up
Over the last 3 weeks Mike Porter and I have covered a number of topics to consider when trying to accelerate your speed to production for a portal project. In case you missed any of the installments, here they are. Good luck on your project! Previous Installments Dependency Management Ramp Your Resources Don’t Forget Your […]
12 Things You Can Do to Get Your Portal to Production Quickly: Part 11 – Don't Forget Mobile
Two years ago I wouldn’t have said that mobile consideration is a key component to getting to production quickly. Why the change, especially if you are not intending to deliver your portal to mobile channels? The answer is you inevitably will and if you don’t design upon and implement a mobile capable architecture now you will […]
12 Things You Can Do to Get Your Portal to Production Quickly: Part 11 – Don’t Forget Mobile
Two years ago I wouldn’t have said that mobile consideration is a key component to getting to production quickly. Why the change, especially if you are not intending to deliver your portal to mobile channels? The answer is you inevitably will and if you don’t design upon and implement a mobile capable architecture now you will […]
12 Things You Can Do to Get Your Portal to Production Quickly: Part 9 – Provide Ramp Up Time for Less Experienced Resources
In Part 7 of the series, I wrote about the importance of using an experienced core team. However, every single resource on your project will not be a senior resource with years of relevant experience and that is the focus of this post. If you do throw resources into the fire and expect them to […]
12 Things You Can Do to Get Your Portal to Production Quickly: Part 7 – Use an Experienced Core Team
Use an Experienced Core Team Part 7 in our series is perhaps one of the most important: Use an Experienced Core Team. “We have a bunch of smart people and they can figure this portal thing out” is a sure way to put your project in jeopardy. I cannot stress enough how important having the […]