Posts Tagged ‘development’

Thanks to Carol Smith from our User Experience group for pointing this out on Yammer.  In the portal and social world, we have struggled to pull User Experience activities into a sprint based approach like Scrum.  We’ve started down the path on a couple project but Jon Innes has an article at boxes and arrows […]

Themes in WebSphere Portal continue to undergo significant changes.  In the past few releases we have seen the following enhancements to themes introduced: Splitting theme from the wps.ear into separate applications that can be managed independently of the Portal code Introduction of Client Side Aggregation (CSA) which builds a page using Javascript on the browser […]

Before We Begin Integrating OBIEE and Portal has been tricky due the lack of publicly available OBIEE documentation on the HtmlViewService, therefore, I wanted to write this post to describe the implementation of an OBIEE Chart portlet and provide a sample implementation.   I will cover some of the lessons learned and provide solutions to issues […]

IBM has a YouTube of Wheaton Worldwide’s presentation and case study.  Their portal includes key content and a learning management system integrated to the portal.  But the new functionality really integrated their business functions into the portal.  That’s what I really like about this case study. Wheaton’s portal enables their business and uses the web […]

Erin Eschen Moloney (@erine) made me aware of this post by Symon Garfield on CMWire’s site.  Symon has been posting a variety of article about SharePoint success and in this post he turns to SharePoint as a Development Platform.   I like a lot of what he says but the following quote is my favorite as […]

Lately IBM has been publishing videos on YouTube to help teach you about Web Experience Factory.  WEF is IBM’s rapid development tool for building multi-channel and multi-device applications. This the product formerly called Portlet Factory, but since it does so much more than build porltets, the name change reflects its real purpose – to build […]

Mark Polly recently posted an overview on SharePoint custom development with some interesting views from Forrester about the risks of custom development.  While I don’t completely disagree with what Forrester says, I think I’m a little less afraid of custom development than those at Forrester.  Here’s what I believe regarding custom development on any platform: […]

IBM released the new Portal Mobile Experience theme a couple of weeks ago (see Jonathan Distad’s post).  I decided to install this new theme to see what a Portal Mobile Experience is like.   In the first screen shot, you see the standard Portal Administration page from a desktop browser. There is a navigator on the […]

This is the fourth entry in a series on what constitutes good requirements, regardless of how they are written, stated, shown, or otherwise intended.  In this entry, we offer a gentle reminder that requirements should also be verifiable. When requirements are verifiable it simply means that they are expressed in a way that our product […]

Web Applications are WAR files that include java code and JSP files with a web.xml deployment descriptor that are intended to implement dynamic web functionality (as opposed to static web functionality which uses HTML files). A portal team typically uses this packaging technique for the following artifacts: Portal themes and skins web services iWidgets WebSphere […]

WebSphere Portal 6.0.1 introduced a capability called the URI resolution service or POC servlet  or the Resolver Framework depending on where you see it mentioned. The DeveloperWorks article called Accessing portal content with custom URLs is the most recent and informative post I have found describing this service. This service was created to allow non-portal sites in your […]

Releasing your portal project to a brand new environment can be a fairly large challenge. I maintain the reason for the challenge is that there are so many tools and procedures required for this process. It is difficult to find somebody on your team that has deep administrative experience coupled with a development background so […]