Category: Technical Guide

Spending a Day with Ubuntu 1

Spending a Day with Ubuntu

I recently got a chance to spend an entire working day with Ubuntu at my employer. This is sad, but I grabbed the wrong laptop on the way into work and when I emerged...

Taking a Break with Ubuntu 8.1 9

Taking a Break with Ubuntu 8.1

Sometimes its nice to take a break and goof around with an OS. I’ve used RedHat, SuSE, and Fedora and they are all nice, but there’s a lot of buzz around Ubuntu. I had...

RIM Gets Bold and Brings a Storm to Cupertino 2

RIM Gets Bold and Brings a Storm to Cupertino

RIM picked Santa Clara for its first developer conference right in the back yard of new rival Apple. RIM brought a few friends with them and some pretty darn impressive new phones. There’s the...

OMG – DirecTV, why do you suck so bad? 4

OMG – DirecTV, why do you suck so bad?

Its been quite a while since I went on a rant. These days I pride myself in remaining calm and collected, unlike my younger days when I could blow a gasket at any moment....

Liferay…I need a Life Jacket; Giving JBoss Portal a Try. 9

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

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...

Revisiting Portals with Liferay 5.1 1

Revisiting Portals with Liferay 5.1

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,...