Michael Porter

Dennis Bland has an interesting post on our Spark blog on using JQuery to change your logo.  They have a great example of allowing your logo to change without using Flash.

eWeek has a short article out about the Adobe’s updated Flash Builder 4.5 and Flex 4.5 aimed at mobile development.   Adobe continues to follow their model for using Flash as a Mobile Enterprise Application Platform (MEAP).  While still relatively young, small vendors like Pyxis and even larger vendors like IBM are pushing a strategy of […]

eWeek has an article out comparing iOS to Android.  Despite the surge in Android shipments, the total of iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad shipments still far surpasses what Android has shipped.  See the article for all the points they make. 5,200 developers at Apples WWDC 200 Million iOS devices sold 425,000 iPhone apps 90,000 iPad […]

We have shown you a variety of ways in which you can screw up your portal project.  Glenn Kline and I had fun documenting them.  Of course, we had less fun living through them or consoling clients who were living through them but time heals all wounds and now we can laugh about it.  We’d […]

It’s the fear of anyone who has launched a web site or an application that has any possibility at all of becoming well used.  What if your site can’t keep up with the load and the server crashes?  A crashing server due to resource overload can happen for a variety of reasons but today’s topic […]

For all that I love portal and collaboration technology, I recognize there are time when you shouldn’t use it.  It can be heavy if it’s a one-off type application.  Portal can be difficult to implement if you are trying to recreate an entire application from scratch.  It can be really difficult and time consuming if […]

Terry Griffey posted a YouTube video on how to manage the resources and workload in a highly virtualized environment.   Within Perficient he’s well known as an all around bright guy who’s also really good at training people on a variety of complex concepts.   Any of  you who has seen virtual server sprawl and has not […]

Doubtless you all have heard or participated in the best of breed vs the one vendor stack debate.  I can lean both ways on that debate depending on what kind of solution you need.   There is a time and place for both approaches.  However, sometimes it’s far too easy to get caught up in the […]

Sometimes Portal Technology can frustrate both technical and business users because it seems so complicated.  The reality is that it is fairly complicated.  That’s what happens when the portal itself has portal administration, theme, documents, web content, personalization, security and a bunch of other services.  The following examples come from two customers who made mistakes […]

Sometimes Portal Technology can frustrate both technical and business users because it seems so complicated.  The reality is that it is fairly complicated.  That’s what happens when the portal itself has portal administration, theme, documents, web content, personalization, security and a bunch of other services.  The following examples come from two customers who made mistakes […]

Continuing with the third installment of the things you shouldn’t be doing on a project is one of my favorite.  It refers to a development methodology.  All too often those of us in IT forget about the end business goal and instead focus on the tool that’s supposed to get us to the goal.  When […]

Continuing with the third installment of the things you shouldn’t be doing on a project is one of my favorite.  It refers to a development methodology.  All too often those of us in IT forget about the end business goal and instead focus on the tool that’s supposed to get us to the goal.  When […]