Technical Guide

Liferay…I need a Life Jacket; Giving JBoss Portal a Try.

Beren Erchamion
August 8, 2008

After completing my previous post on Liferay I began to see that things were really not deploying properly from the EXT environment. I went back and tried the simpler plugins SDK and continued to experience more trouble getting just the…

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Revisiting Portals with Liferay 5.1

Beren Erchamion
July 24, 2008

I started using portals back BDB (before .bomb) with Plumtree and Epicentric portal platforms. I always believed that these tools had tremendous potential and I still do (a mashup is just a reworked portal, right?). Portal platforms showed a lot…

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Technical Review

Tylenol Please – My “no brainer” is giving me a headache…

Beren Erchamion
January 18, 2008

Well I guess my “no brainer” SQL tool has turned out to be a major pain…so I will have to reassess my decision. What’s up? Well a couple of days after I posted my review of Toad for MySQL I…

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Technical Review

Toad for MySQL – A True No Brainer Decision

Beren Erchamion
January 15, 2008

I’m using Drupal with MySQL on the back-end. So far I’ve been doing all the MySQL tasks from the command line, which is empowering since I can still hack it from the command line, but after a while I start…

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Technical Review

One Laptop Per Child – Two Cool Machines!

Beren Erchamion
January 10, 2008

One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) has been a project long in the works. I recently got my hands on a device from Tim “Plutarch” Schultz. He ordered the device a few months ago and finally it arrived. The deal is…

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Technical Review

Beating the lumps in the mashup…then taking a deep breath.

Beren Erchamion
January 4, 2008

I’m running out of funny titles for mashup server articles. For the next article I’ll need to get some help from a six-pack of a decent ale (perhaps some Speckled Hen – yum!). My friends at WSO2 have released the…

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