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Wicket, Tapestry, Vaadin – Framework Fun

Beren Erchamion
February 7, 2012

I’ve been poking around with “new to me” frameworks for a while. I would like to replace my main website with something that I can use to program (currently it is straight HTML5). I’ve played with Wicket and Tapestry –…

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J2EE/Java

Alfresco – A Good Sauce or Just Another Meal?

Beren Erchamion
February 21, 2009

CMS platforms seem to be a dime a dozen these days. Plone, Drupal, Joomla, SharePoint…the list goes on and on. I’ve used many of these tools over the past four or five years. I’ve always though Plone was the best…

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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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