The Post-Facebook Internet
The recent Facebook scandal—in which Cambridge Analytica obtained 50 million Facebook users' personal data—really shouldn't have been such a big…
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2010
Oracle Announces Roadmap for Plumtree / AquaLogic / WebCenter
UPDATE 2: I've incorporated all the great feedback and comments from ex-Plumtreevians, ex-BEA and ex- and current Oracle folks. / UPDATE: A bunch of…
On Open Letter to the Java Community
In the wake of the Sun acquisition by Oracle, the much-lambasted Oracle vs. Google lawsuit over Google's alleged JavaME patent infringement, and the…
Upcoming Oracle Web Center Interaction Training
Just wanted to let you know that I (formerly Plumtree's Lead Engineer, worked with hundreds of different Plumtree, BEA and Oracle customers and now…
2009
My Oracle OpenWorld Sessions
I'm going to be speaking in two different Oracle OpenWorld sessions on Sunday. They are OOW-S312303 -- Enterprise-Enable Dynamic PHP, Ruby, Python…
2008
Top Ten Tips for Writing Plumtree Crawlers that Actually Work
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…
bdg welcomes Michael Buckbee!
We're very pleased to announce that industry veteran, entrepreneur and Rails developer Michael Buckbee joined the bdg team today as CTO and Lead…
Conference Social Networking Made Simple
Three and a half months have transpired since our stellar debut at BEA Participate. (In internet time, that's a lifetime.) But better late than…
Middleware for the REST of us
I'm sitting in my third Oracle Fusion Middleware briefing, this one at the Willard Hotel in Washington, DC. Thomas Kurian has been going through all…
New Video: Demo of Conference Social Application
This is a 30-minute clip from the general session at BEA Participate from back in May. Jay Simons and I demo the social application that bdg built…
RubyNation Community Site Accepting Registrations!
bdg is very proud to be a RubyNation sponsor! The sold-out conference is just two weeks away. However, whether you're registered or not, if you want…
Modular Page Assembly in Rails (Part 2)
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. /…
Nominate Chris Bucchere for an Oracle OpenWorld Session
I've presented at seven Plumtree Odysseys, one BEA World and two BEA Participates. Help keep the streak alive by voting up my Oracle OpenWorld…
The Social Collective Debuts at RubyNation
We're very pleased to announce that, together with the organizers of RubyNation, we debuted our social application "The Social Collective" today as a…
Modular Page Assembly in Rails (Part 1)
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…
This Just In -- BEA Participate Social App Stats
I find this a little hard to believe, but the numbers don't lie. We had a whopping 75,000 page views the week of the conference! / That's more than…
Announcing the Launch of the Social Applications for BEA Participate '08
You've heard the phrase "social applications" being kicked around by BEA and bdg. But what exactly does that mean? / In a nutshell, it means that…
BEA Participate is Only Two Weeks Away
There's still time to register for this great conference and take part in a one-of-a-kind social computing experiment. / Register now! / Comments /…
Countdown to BEA Participate
Here at bdg, we're working tirelessly to bring you a revolutionary social networking application that will drive your interactions with BEA…
How to Build your own Temple of Ego in Five Minutes
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…
Enterprise Relevance of Web 2.0 (in six parts)
Back in November of 2007 I gave a one-hour talk in Tyson's Corner, VA entitled "The Enterprise Relevance of Web 2.0." There were probably about…
Write an ALUI IDS in Under 15 Lines Using Ruby on Rails
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…
One Portal to Rule Them All
I won't rehash what's already been said by everyone in the press and the blogosphere -- Oracle is buying BEA. I wrote almost three years ago that…
2007
Getting Social at BEA Participate 2008
This week BEA launched the Participate 2008 blog and revealed more about their plans for what is shaping up to be a great event. Perhaps the most…
BEA Participate 2008 Announced
From an e-mail I just received: / Mark your calendar today to attend a gathering of BEA customers, partners and product experts in Chicago, Illinois…
Predictions: Will Oracle Acquire BEA?
There's been a lot of speculation in response to some press releases from Oracle that an all-cash buyout of BEA may be immanent. More than two years…
Feedhaus Launches Public Alpha to Deliver Real-time Personalized News,...
Feedhaus announced today that it has released its social news site into public alpha to deliver real-time news, images and videos that are personally…
Podcast: Interview with feedhaus Developer Andrew Bays
The podcast returns (after another six month hiatus) with an interview of feedhaus developer Andrew Bays. If you're interested in the inner workings…
Upcoming AquaLogic Training Classes in DC
bdg is hosting an AquaLogic (Plumtree) Training Class in Washington, DC the week of September 24th. / We'll be sticking with the format we used last…
meebo Sells Out
It has been a long time coming, but meebo has finally succumbed to the pressures of a basic business truth that they've been dutifully ignoring: / in…
Chris Bucchere Quoted in BEA Research Brief
Off The Record Research, a subscription-based Wall Street publication, recently prepared a research brief on BEA that was released to their customers…
bdg gives away a Video iPod
Here I am on the last day of BEA Participate awarding a Video iPod to Niren Patel, who accepted the winning iPod on behalf of his coworker Karl…
Chris Bucchere Interviewed by the Sloan (MIT) School of Management
Last week I had the pleasure of being interviewed by former Plumtreevian and soon-to-be-graduate of MIT's Sloan School of Management, John Osborne.…
Live from BEA Participate: Mark Carges Keynote
I already held Mark Carges in very high esteem -- but my respect for him grew immensely this morning when I found out that he wrote the source for…
BEA Participate Rapidly Approaching
All of us at bdg are starting to get excited about BEA Participate! As you already know, we're sponsoring this year's ALUI and ALBPM event and I'm…
ALUI (Plumtree) Training Postponed
We had some conflicts, so we postponed the Herndon, VA-based training to next week. It's now 4/16-4/18 for administrators and 4/18-4/20 for…
Bringing Web 2.0 to the en.terpri.se
First, let me establish one thing: I don't work for BEA. Since leaving Plumtree more than four years ago, neither Plumtree nor BEA has paid me a…
Four ALI IDKs at your Disposal -- Fifth One on the Way?
As most of you already know, there are four IDKs out there in IDK-land. To take a step back, if you're really new to ALUI (formerly Plumtree)…
ALI G6 on Ubuntu?
Some of you may be familiar with my rants on the bdg blog about how Linux just isn't ready for the desktop. My opinion on that matter has largely…
Portals and SOA: Portals in a Service-Oriented Architecture
I've been invited to give the following talk at BEA Participate: / Why is a Service-Oriented Architecture important to an IT infrastructure and what…
bdg Sponsorship of BEA Participate 2007 Confirmed
Here's some more shameless self-promotion (isn't that what blogging is all about?) -- we've just been confirmed as a sponsor for BEA Participate…
What is Enterprise 2.0?
The bdg Plumtree podcast returns with a nice little segment on Enterprise 2.0 and, specifically, how it relates to BEA and bdg. / So, if you're…
Upcoming ALUI (Plumtree) Training -- April 9th, 2007
We're very pleased to announce that we've finalized the date for our next ALUI/Plumtree training course, scheduled for the week of April 9th, 2007. /…
BEA Announces ALUI/ALBPM User Conference
This just in: BEA has announced that they will be hosting a user conference for ALUI and ALBPM customers and prospects. This conference is called…
BEA Participate
A quiet little announcement was made last week: BEA plans to host an ALUI (formerly Plumtree) and ALBPM (formerly Fuego) user conference!…
Happy Birthday, bdg!
bdg just turned four! To celebrate the beginning of year five, we've launched a new web site. It's all about how bdg, given our background of…
WLP + Adrenaline = ALI?
I recall sitting in a meeting in 1998 where we were discussing how to aggregate portlet content into a portal page. We talked a lot about iframes but…
2006
ALUI Fireside Chat, Round 2: Friday 12/15 9-5 EST
It's time for another ALUI fireside chat! Join the ALUI/Plumtree community for an entire workday's worth of smores, ghost stories and Kumbaya. The…
How to Integrate PKI Certs or CAC Cards with ALI
In his 1947 speech to the House of Commons, Winston Churchill quipped, "It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all…
Announcing the Ruby IDK
Check it out at https: / rubyidk.projects.dev2dev.bea.com. / Let's have a virtual round of applause for Andrew Bays, bdg's hotshot developer…
bdg gives away the iPod
On the last day of BEA World, bdg gave Robert Gill a brand new 4Gb iPod nano (in black of course). Accepting the iPod on his behalf is Robert's…
BEAWorld 2006: Mark Carges Keynote
Mark Carges, who is reponsible for the Business Interaction Division (BID) of BEA, just finished his keynote address. He focused on SOA 360/Workshop…
.NET Meet Java (and vice versa)
Here are my notes from this session, which, BTW, is the best talk I've seen today. (The best yesterday was Eric Whitley's.) / Interesting stat: 80%…
BEAWorld 2006 General Session
Alfred Chuang (the "A" in BEA) said that 20% of BEA's business comes from AquaLogic. He parlayed this into a nice talk about the realization of SOA.…
Memories
Even my rental car reminded me of Plumtree.
Blogging from my Treo 650?
Yes, it's true. I can now post to our blog from my PDA/phone. How cool is that? Stay tuned for live updates from BEA World!
BEAWorld 2006 Speaking Engagement
This just in: my talk on ALUI Taglibs begins at 1:50 PM on Monday the 18th at the ALUI Developer User Group Meeting, which will be held in one of the…
BEAWorld, here we come
All of us at bdg are very excited about BEA World 2006. We've got our booth all ready to go, we've got bdg mousepads and playing cards to give away…
UUID Object Opener, The Coolest ALI Taglib Yet
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…
Podcast Episode 4: bdg's take on BEA's Unified Portal Roadmap
I'm very pleased to announce that we've finally laid down the fourth episode of our podcast, nearly a year after Episode 3! / A lot has happened, a…
My Love Affair with ALI Taglibs
There's been some recent activity on this very old thread in the newsgroups regarding displaying the help link in a portlet. Until G6, this could…
Searching Intrinsic Properties in .NET
I won't waste your time with any introductory drivel -- if you want that, you can read the other post. Let's get right into the code. /…
A Slick Alternative to pt:standard.openerlink
For one reason or another your bosses (we all have more than one, don't we?) have told you that the look-n-feel of the common object opener in ALUI…
Washington DC Area ALUI (Plumtree) Training
bdg plans to offer a 5-day AquaLogic (Plumtree) Training Course in the Washington DC Metro Area starting on October 16th. We're combining our two…
Searching Intrinsic ALI Properties Using the PRC
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…
Everyone likes a friendly URL
As part of our BEA World strategy for this year, we're revamping our corporate web site, http: / www.bdg-online.com. You should expect an unveiling…
More adventures in desktop linux
Everything I do in linux seems to be an adventure. That couldn't be more true for Oracle 10g. After fighting with the installer, monkeying around…
Handy Startup Script for ALUI G6 on *nix
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…
ALI Install Issues on Fedora Core 5
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…
Time to switch search keywords?
The data below are from overture.com. They state how many times the following terms are currently being used in search queries. (I'm not sure if the…
Ruby IDK 5.3 development has begun
We've laid down the basic architecture for the Ruby IDK 5.3 and written most of IPortletContext and IPortletRequest. We also now have a test bed…
BEAWorld 2006 sponsorship is a go
Check out our logo on the BEAWorld sponsors page. We're the first AquaLogic User Interaction partner to sign up (and the only one so far)!
ALUI Portlet Pagination Cookbook
A coworker asked me how to write Plumtree portlet pagination (i.e. showing records in a UI and allowing the user to move from page to page, n records…
Mingle & the PHP EDK moved to dev2dev's CodeShare
Just in case you're looking for our two opensource projects that were once accessible via the Plumtree Portal, you can now find them on BEA dev2dev's…
Our relationship with BEA + BEAWorld 2006
I often get asked the question: what's your relationship with BEA? / Without lapsing into buzzword bingo (e.g. synergy), let me just say this: bdg is…
Caveat Emptor: Using Varpacks in Pluggable Navigation
I got burned by this today, so I thought I would share it with you all. I had a perfectly good and working pluggable navigation that loaded a remote…
Announcing my new dev2dev blog
I'm very pleased to announce that I've been selected by BEA to be one of their featured bloggers on dev2dev, BEA's product community site for…
Hello World + Portlet vs. Native Navigation
Hello world! This is my first post on my shiny new dev2dev blog and needless to say, I'm very pleased to be blogging here and to be given the…
The Plumtree founding fathers -- where are they now?
The short answer: one is retired, two are involved in real estate (one as a business and one as a hobby) and one is seeking his next adventure while…
Integrate your iPod with your car -- the right way
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…
Presenting at the DC BUG (BEA dev2dev User Group)
I'm very pleased to announce that I will be the featured speaker at the Washington DC BEA dev2dev User Group on May 11th. You can read the official…
Watch for deprecated methods in the G6 server API
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…
Mingle posted on the BEA/Plumtree Code Share
I'm very pleased to announce that Mingle, a prototype of a BEA/Plumtree Web 2.0 social networking application, has been posted on the BEA/Plumtree…
2005
Podcast Episode 3: Plumtree Washed Away by AquaLogic
I just cut the third episode of the bdg Plumtree Podcast. I'm very happy to say that I've worked out a glitch in the connection between the mixer and…
Benefits of an open source model
I rode public transit today (always good for the soul) and had a chance to listen to some of the many podcasts that I've downloaded to my iPod. One I…
Same old products, fancy new names
With the acquisition of Plumtree by BEA in the books, all of the Plumtree products we know and love have received new monikers. / Here's a cheat…
Podcast Episode 2: What is Plumtree?
In today's podcast (Episode 2: What is Plumtree?), I cover the short and long answers to the question I get asked most often: what is Plumtree? In…
Official transition date/time
I heard from someone on the inside that at noon on Thursday, October 20th, Plumtree officially becomes the AquaLogic devision of BEA.
bdg launches world's first Plumtree podcast
I'm very pleased to announce that bdg has officially kicked off our very much irregular and irreverent Plumtree podcast! / Please download and listen…
Plumtree Odyssey+ADC 2005 wrap-up
With a resounding victory this morning in the Booth of Pain, bdg put the wraps on what will probably be the last Plumtree Odyssey. / We sent five…
bdg takes Plumtree Odyssey+ADC by storm
We're going for a big splash this year at the final Odyssey+ADC while Plumtree is still, well, Plumtree. / Plumtree just released the onsite guide…
Plumtree releases G6
Late yesterday, Plumtree announced the release of their G6 line of products. They have made everything generally available for download for partners…
Steve Markoff – welcome to bdg!
I am very pleased to announce that Steve Markoff, an outstanding software engineer with over 10 years of product development experience and a…
Howie Bagley joins bdg – welcome to the team!
I am very pleased to announce the addition of the newest member of our team, portal industry veteran and consultant extraordinaire, Howie Bagley. /…
My take on the acquisition of Plumtree by BEA
Several colleagues, coworkers, customers and other Plumtree partners have asked me for my opinion on the buyout of Plumtree by BEA Systems. I…
BEA plans to acquire Plumtree Software
Big news: BEA plans to aquire Plumtree Software for $5.50/share or about $200 million in cash. Read the full story.
Datamize vs. Plumtree: another silly software patent bites the dust
I usually don't take much interest in legal matters, but I found this tidbit quite interesting and even a bit entertaining. / Two weeks ago, in an…
bdg co-sponsors Odyssey+ADC 2005
I'm very pleased to announce that bdg has been selected by Plumtree as a co-sponsor of this year's Odyssey+ADC, which is Plumtree's User Conference…
Passing information between Plumtree portlets
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…
Washington DC Plumtree Training
bdg plans to offer a 5-day Plumtree Training Course in the Washington DC Metro Area starting on August 22nd. We’re combining our two most popular…
Plumtree RSS feeds of interest
If you like RSS and you like Plumtree, you might find the following links interesting: / This blog: http: / feeds.feedburner.com/bdg/plumtree / Links…
It's official: bdg becomes a Plumtree partner
I am very pleased to announce that bdg has joined Plumtree's Synergy Alliance program. Please check out our partner landing page on www.plumtree.com.…
Query filters explained, at last
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…
bdg's new hires and site changes
All of us at bdg are very pleased to welcome the newest members of our team: Rich Weinhold and Eric Bucchere. / Rich, our resident PHP and Plumtree…
Resources for running Plumtree on Oracle
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…
bdg launches the PHP EDK 5.1
I am very pleased to announce that on Friday, 8 July 2005, bdg released the PHP EDK 5.1 to the Plumtree Code Share. Largely due to a Herculean effort…
Server-to-server SSL with Plumtree
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…
How to search for other Plumtree deployments
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. /…
bdg takes Wind River live on Plumtree 5.0.4J
All of us at bdg are very pleased to announce that our very own Andrew Morris has led Wind River to a successful launch of 5.0.4J on their corporate…
The future of JSR-168
There is some interesting speculation about the future of JSR-168 going on at the Portlets Yahoo! Group. IMO (which is a redundant thing to say…
Is Plumtree an "open" platform?
"We call this re-imagining Radical Openness. Radical Openness is our strategy to offer both J2EE and .NET versions of our entire application…
What's the best way to find out XYZ about Plumtree?
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.…
Here we go
Perhaps I've finally realized that it's time to enter the 21st century; perhaps I'm interested in promoting my company and it’s services; perhaps I…