Paginated Reports are the same as SSRS, which have come to Power BI with advanced features for better reports. Paginated Reports are well designed & formatted reports which are perfectly sized so we can print and share the reports effectively. We can also load images and charts on these reports. We can create highly formatted […]
Posts Tagged ‘Technical’
Learning How to Use the MuleSoft MongoDB Connector
MuleSoft has various pre-built connectors to connect Mule to different databases and third-party software. The Anypoint Connector for MongoDB (MongoDB Connector) is a closed-source connector that provides a connection between the Mule runtime engine and third-party software on a MongoDB server. MongoDB is similar to the MuleSoft Database Connector, which uses a single interface for […]
An Intro to Caching in MuleSoft 4
Caching is a concept harnessed to store frequently used data in the memory, file system, or database that helps to improve processing times. This strategy is most useful when data does not change frequently or is static in nature. In general, some benefits of caching include improved responsiveness, increased performance, and decreased network costs. The […]
API Security: Common Threats and Considerations
Common API Threats: spoofing, tampering, repudiation, denial of service, unauthorized access, confidentiality violation API Security Considerations: Identification – Know Your Consumer The common approach to implementing this is using API keys, which are nothing but randomly generated values that will vary for each consumer. Authentication – is Consumer Authentic User-Password over SSl/TSL: the API consumer will be providing a user […]
Richer, More Personalized Customer Experiences for an API Economy
At the IBM Digital Experience 2015 Conference, Ajay Kadakia with IBM talked about how the API economy is affecting legacy IT companies versus the newer cloud-based companies. The challenge is how to provide more agile, market reactive content off the legacy systems when competing against seemingly more agile, cloud based systems. Ajay talked about the […]
How to Implement Lighter Weight Portals, Part 3: Knockout Portlet
In this series, I’m showing how Portals don’t have to be heavyweight. In Part 1, I wrote about how to make the infrastructure lighter by using cloud or IBM’s Pure System. In Part 2, I introduced the concept of using IBM’s Web Content Manager system to build very simple portlets. Now in this final installment, […]
IBM Digital Experience Conf: Developing Portlets Using JQuery
jQuery is one of the most pervasive scripting libraries in use today. The session “Developing Portlets Using Javascript and JQuery for Engaging Digital Experiences” by Stephan Hesmer, Web 2.0 Architect, IBM and Jaspreet Singh, Rational Tools Architect, IBM provided good insight as to how to leverage jQuery in IBM WebSphere Portal. First, a couple of […]
IBM Digital Experience Conf: IBM Web Content Manager Patterns
Eric Morentin and Nick Baldwin spoke about WCM Patterns that should be used in content management development in IBM Digital Experience. Patterns of course are a “canned” way or even best practice for implementing solutions. There are four themes of patterns they talked about: Better content / component model There are different types of content […]
Google: Reasons Why Nobody Uses Your App, Your Site, Your…
I came across the article Google: Reasons Why Nobody Uses Your App in my favorite iPhone app Zite. The article is about a presentation given by Tomer Sharon, a user researcher at Google, at Google’s I/O Conference. I embedded the video here for you to view. Tomer identifies reasons why nobody uses your app. I want to extend […]
Upcoming Webinar: Going Mobile with Your Liferay Portal
Next week, on June 12 at 1 pm CDT, I will be presenting a free webinar on Going Mobile with Liferay Portal. Below is a description of the webinar and a link to register. If you have Liferay Portal or are considering it, you will want to see what are your options for making sure that […]
WebSphere Portal v8.5 First Look: Install
IBM announced the release of IBM Digital Experience Suite 8.5 on earlier this month. Today, I had the chance to download the software images from and I am writing this as I install WebSphere Portal v8.5 Extend edition on Windows 7 OS. I went ahead with the Extend edition because I wanted to get a hold of all the […]
SharePoint migrations may cause consternation
When migrating to SharePoint 2013 older assets may need serious modification to gain from the benefits of the new, lightweight, fast, and fluid user interface. These benefits come from new CSS styles, themes, and master pages. Thus, you must re-create your custom branding by using the new styles, themes, or master pages available in SharePoint […]