Posts Tagged ‘Technical’

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 […]

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 […]

IBM’s web content management system has long had a feature called syndication.  Syndication is used to move content from one server to another.  In the typical environment, content is authored in one server, goes through a workflow process and finally gets approved.  Once approved, that content then needs to be delivered to the production servers […]

In doing some research into Adobe CQ5.5, I came across an interesting article that sent me into a new research mission today.  (Whenever I see something new, I just have to research it right then and there.) So I came across this link in Google:  TWITTER BOOTSTRAP FOR ADOBE CQ5.5.  I had no idea what […]

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 […]

If you missed IBM’s Exceptional Web Experience conference in May, you’ll be glad to know that IBM is posting many of the presentations on the Portal Wiki.  This is an excellent chance to see the actual video of the presentations and not just the presentation file. Stefan Hepper presented a nice session on how to […]

IBM has long had a Solutions Catalog or application store, which includes portlets and other code for their products.   Some solutions are free from IBM and others, while some solutions you have to purchase.  You can look at the Solutions Catalog here. In addition to the Solutions Catalog, IBM is now offering what they […]

At IBM’s Exceptional Web Experience Conference, Rob Will, Chief Architect for WebSphere Portal and WCM, delivered his usual outstanding presentation on What’s New in WebSphere Portal and WCM.  His presentation was 117 slides long, so it was packed with lots of information.  He conveyed some of IBM goals with respect to Portal and WCM and […]

At IBM’s Exceptional Web Experience Conference, Rob Will, Chief Architect for WebSphere Portal and WCM, delivered his usual outstanding presentation on What’s New in WebSphere Portal and WCM.  His presentation was 117 slides long, so it was packed with lots of information.  He conveyed some of IBM goals with respect to Portal and WCM and […]

Stefan Hepper presented a session at the IBM Exceptional Web Experience Conference on techniques to integrate external content management systems with IBM WCM.  He first presented on integration of ECM systems into WCM. There are several use cases where this integration is important: Author content in external ECM system and deliver it using WCM Target […]

Now that WebSphere Portal V8 has shipped, you should wonder what is the migration process to get to Portal 8. I’m attending the IBM Exceptional Web Experience Conference session titled Migrating to IBM WebSphere Portal V8, so I’ll pass along what I learn. First, the upgrade is going to require additional servers because it is […]

​One of the things that can come in handy for a SharePoint consultant is to install SharePoint on one’s personal laptop. I speak at many conferences and sometimes do not have the luxury of an internet connection to a virtual server and my laptop only has 6GB of RAM, so a virtual machine running on […]