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 a laptop lying around and decided…
Category: Technical Review
A review of something I’ve been working with and find either something to criticize or something to praise.
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 “Flip” their first ‘Star Trek communicator”…
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. However there are some things that…
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 experience more trouble getting just the…
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, right?). Portal platforms showed a lot…
Tylenol Please – My “no brainer” is giving me a headache…
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…