Mark Polly

Continuing with my series about WebSphere Portal 8 Beta 2, today I am looking at the improvements made to Web Content Management.  IBM had previously introduced the ability to create custom launch pages for the authoring portlet.  The idea here is that the default view – Library Explorer – can be intimidating for casual users, […]

I’ve been looking at Beta 2 of WebSphere Portal 8 and today I am going to review the new Configuration Wizard feature. If you have had to do any administration of WebSphere Portal, you are probably aware of the command line interface ConfigEngine.   This tool has been around with various names since at least […]

As my colleague Michael Porter mentioned in yesterday’s blog, I have been looking at WebSphere Portal 8 Beta and am going to review some of the new features with you in a series of posts. I just installed Beta 2 and have spent a couple of hours playing with the new Manage Pages feature.  With […]

Oracle’s big convention OpenWorld is going on this week.  I thought I’d take that opportunity to explore Oracle’s WebCenter Suite in some detail.  There has been some confusion in the past few years about Oracle’s Portal strategy, but it looks like they are finally offering a very strong product line in that space.  With the […]

Liferay Sync is a new product coming from Liferay later this year. With Sync, you designate a folder on your PC as the Sync folder. You also configure a connection to your Liferay server and document library. When you are done, any file deposited into that folder on your desktop will be uploaded automatically to […]

Liferay is introducing Dynamic Data Lists in v 6.1 .  Also known as User Data Lists, they are kind of similar to Microsoft SharePoint Lists.  The idea behind the lists is to allow end users to create simple applications without the need for custom development. In fact, Liferay says that 80% of the simple applications […]

I’m at the Liferay West Coast Symposium and just attended a session on the new content management system features presented by Ray Auge.  First off, many people talk about the blending of features between the portal and the CMS,  and for Liferay, this is intentional.   When asked in the elevator what is Liferay, a staffer […]

I’m at the Liferay West Coast Symposium and just attended a session on the new content management system features presented by Ray Auge.  First off, many people talk about the blending of features between the portal and the CMS,  and for Liferay, this is intentional.   When asked in the elevator what is Liferay, a staffer […]

XMLPF stands for XML Portlet Factory and is an open source tool that can build Liferay portlets from XML definition files.  The software creates database CRUD portlets based on the definitions contained in an XML file.  Here is a link to the project website: http://www.xmlportletfactory.org/   An example portlet is shown to the right.  XML Portlet […]

Sandy Carter from IBM just published a YouTube video called: 5th Era – Social Business.  Sandy is IBM’s Vice President of Social Business Evangelism and has been publishing lots of interesting videos and blog posts.  At just over 3 minutes the video is a good break from your day. In this video, Sandy describes the […]

Gartner recently published the 2011 Magic Quadrant on Social Software in the Workplace. Not surprisingly, the market leaders are IBM, Jive and Microsoft. Gartner views IBM’s size and product breadth as major contributions to its ranking. Also, IBM Connections has many, many large implementations under its belt. IBM’s challenges come from the complexity of installing […]

I recently blogged about new mobile features in the Dojo toolkit, so I thought I would give equal time to JQuery.  JQuery Mobile has recently release Beta 2 of the toolkit and it includes lots of great features. The mobile toolkit has various levels of support for a variety of devices.  JQuery maintains an A-B-C […]