Times are tough, right? Everyone is slashing spending, especially around travel and conference budgets. But you need (read: want) to be at SXSWi. So…

Just in time for Halloween, I've decided to publish my Top Ten Tips for Writing Plumtree Crawlers that Actually Work. This post may scare you a…

Calling all local Rubyists! I'm speaking about modular page design in Ruby on Rails at tomorrow night's NovaRUG. The title of my talk is "To Portal…

In Part 1, I explained how you can develop clean, DRY and encapsulated MVC code that allows for completely modular page assembly in Ruby on Rails. /…

Recently I was faced with an interesting problem: I wanted to create a modular, portal-like page layout natively in Ruby on Rails without using…

My wife is arguably my biggest fan, although my mom probably deserves "honorable mention." / If you too are a fanboy or fangirl of someone, like, say…

Not only is it possible to write an ALUI Identity Service in Ruby on Rails, it's remarkably easy. I was able to do the entire authentication part in…

A couple of weekends ago I inflicted upon myself a quest to discover what all the buzz was about regarding Comet. What I discovered is that there is…

Anyone who's ever done a major Plumtree/ALUI deployment knows of this problem: You create a portlet or community (or any other object) in Dev and…

There's a problem with the IDK PRC API for search that's tripped up users in the dev2dev forums and that stymied me for the first time today while…

I just wrote a nice little startup script for ALUI G6 on *nix. If you want to use it, place a file in /etc/init.d called "plumtree" with the…

Note: I don't think this is officially supported, so YMMV. / I encountered a problem installing ALUI G6 on Fedora Core 5. Just for the record, it's…

I've been doing a lot of installing and re-imaging lately :-( and I've had to work with ISO files quite a bit. I haven't found any Windows freeware…

I normally restrict myself to writing about ALUI (Plumtree) topics, but I just can't resist sharing my thoughts on a recent purchase I made that has…

We're doing a G6 upgrade at one of our customer sites and we noticed that one of our PEIs (that used to set a user preference) was dying due to our…

This matter has been a subject of a great deal of debate among many of our customers, so I thought I would share my thoughts on the topic. What…

I can't even begin to count the number of times I've been asked how to write a query filter in Plumtree. Yesterday, I had to write one for myself and…

Many of our customers run Plumtree on Oracle, for better or worse. / Despite it's complexities and eccentricities, it's been a good platform albeit…

Two different customers of ours have recently experienced problems with server-to-server SSL and Plumtree, so I thought I would shed some light on…

If you'd like to see what people are doing with Plumtree on the open internet, you can search Google using the allinurl: portal/server.pt syntax. /…

No, it's not boo-SHARE, it's not buck-HEAR, and it's certainly not buck-HAIRY. / Actually it's easy: boo-CARE-eee. Once you've said it once or heard…

I get asked this question -- or some variant of it -- all the time. Unlike almost everything else known to mankind, the answer is not: search Google.…