Posts Tagged ‘Best Practices’

Techcrunch has an interesting article about the top 10 biggest mistakes made with Amazon Web Services. While I don’t want to just copy what they say, I can see a lot of easy mistakes.  For those who think in terms of an internal data center that has to scale to meet all future needs and […]

IBM SPSS Statistics – Data Management Toolset (DMS) In a recent blog post I listed some of the more helpful “data management tools” offered within IBM SPSS Statistics version 20 (Case Summaries, Replace Missing Values, Transform and Compute, Recode, Select Cases, Sort Cases and Merge Files) and would like to review them today. These tools […]

We’ve seen a lot of interest in Adobe CQ5 lately. One question that comes up a lot is about CQ5’s portal capabilities.  Michael Porter blogged last year about the trend of Web Content Management systems to become more portal-like (see Web Content Management’s Trend Towards Portals). It is true that overall CQ5 has lots of traditional […]

Some confusion exists in the portlet development community, because many vendors tout their compliance with JSR 168 standards and less rarely talk about JSR 286 compatibility.  I think this is mostly due to the fact that prior to JSR 168 becoming mainstream, the standards were loose and vendors built to their own specifications.  So becoming […]

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 […]

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 […]

I just came across Mari Sheibley’s Mobile UI Patterns site, and I find it really interesting.  Mari is a graphic designer and currently is lead designer for foursquare. Mobile UI Patterns shows the design of many different applications and shows how these applications implement various patterns (Activity Stream, User Profile, etc).  You can see two […]

Many of you have experienced the wonder of the written word.  You ask a question, the client says something which no one understands, you write it down and everyone agrees to it.  Several months later, you deliver something and it was not what they wanted.  Agile methodologies like SCRUM can get you part way there […]

I attended an excellent session called Extending your IBM Portal Exceptional Web Experience to iPhone, Android, and Blackberry Devices at the excellent web experience conference.  This presentation focused on delivering rich web site to specific mobile devices and some of the alternative approaches for accomplishing this with portal.  The main focus was on using custom […]

PriceWaterhouseCoopers, my first tech employer, posted an interview with Tom Conophy of the InterContinental Hotels Group.  It’s probably the best post I’ve read this year about the evolution of their mobile strategy and how they changed their culture to handle it.  It’s worth reading the entire post but here are a couple excerpts: Then the […]

PriceWaterhouseCoopers, my first tech employer, posted an interview with Tom Conophy of the InterContinental Hotels Group.  It’s probably the best post I’ve read this year about the evolution of their mobile strategy and how they changed their culture to handle it.  It’s worth reading the entire post but here are a couple excerpts: Then the […]

In a previous post, I talked about Gartners prediction of a “seismic shift” in the portal market.  In one of the last session of the Gartner Portal, Content & Collaboration 2011 Summit, Gene Phifer spoke about the future of portals.  Gene is convinced that the portal market (and mashup market) will be “subsumed” by a […]