Posts Tagged ‘development’

Arial, Verdana, Georgia, Times New Roman, Courier New, Impact, Trebuchet and <shudder>Comic Sans</shudder>. Those are the basic web-safe fonts we’ve all been using for the majority of our text-based content since the dawn of time. Or at least, since the Web came along. If you wanted something “fancier” for your text, you had to use […]

Creating a great user experience extends beyond the research, beyond the wireframes, and even beyond the visual design. All that hard work is ultimately for nothing if your website or web application isn’t fast. Why? Because if your site doesn’t load quickly, your users will go elsewhere very quickly indeed!

Author: Suzanne George It is the end of day 1 at the SharePoint conference and one could write a book about all the new / coming changes with SharePoint 2013.  I have taken pages of notes, met with many people, and learned about many of the new features Microsoft is bringing us with SharePoint 2013. […]

Objective-C on the iOS platform continues to rise in popularity. Between iOS and Android platforms, now there are close to 1.6 billion apps. This is a phenomenal number of apps. Given this explosion, it is but natural to see the proliferation of some excellent open source frameworks on social code repositories like Github and Google Code. This […]

  Author: Suzanne George, Senior Technical Architect, Perficient. This week I presented at the Houston SharePoint Users Group on Advanced InfoPath Development and although the dance-off between Richard Calderon and I was, well, memorable — and not necessarily in a good way LOL(!),  I hope everyone had a great time and great food thanks to […]

Over on developerWorks, Thomas Hurek and Falk Posch just posted a new white paper titled: Administering IBM WebSphere Portal 8.0: A comprehensive workshop.  The document is over 130 pages long, so it covers a lot of areas in which portal administrators will be interested.  Here is a list of the topics: Introduction What is WebSphere Portal? […]

Josh Asbury presented Liferay’s mobile capabilities this afternoon.  Josh is Director of Corporate Sales for Liferay. If you done any work on the mobile front, you know there are basically three approaches to mobile-enable your websites: Responsive Design – works on most devices and lower implementation costs, but can’t take advantage of the device features […]

Packt Publishing has recently published the book IBM Websphere Portal 8: Web Experience Factory and the Cloud.  I am proud to say that I was an editor for this book, which let me give feedback to the authors and publisher on its contents. The book takes the approach of developing a complete portal application from start […]

IBM just published their tuning guide for WebSphere Portal 8.0.  There have been lots of improvements made to Portal 8, especially in re-architecting the JCR database for WCM.  If you have a Portal 8.0 installation or are planning to implement Portal 8.0, this tuning guide should be a must read for your team. The tuning guide […]

Today I updated my iPhone 4 to the new iOS 6 operating system.  It has lots of new features which I’ve just started to play with, including a new version of Safari, Apple’s mobile web browser.   What does this have to do with portals?  Keep reading. One of my clients just recently (yesterday – […]

IBM recently posted a new tutorial on developerWorks about how to use IBM Worklight to deliver WebSphere Portal pages.  The title of the article is very long, but here it is: Deliver an exceptional mobile web experience using WebSphere Portal and IBM Worklight, Part 1: Integrating a hybrid mobile application with WebSphere Portal pages by Jaye […]

Since we work with several different portal products, I’m often asked about the performance of Liferay portal when it comes to scalability.  I think most people who ask this question are under the impression that the big players (IBM, Oracle, Microsoft, Adobe, etc) do scale very well.  Indeed those vendors do spend a good amount […]