Say hello world to comet
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…
2006
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…
Public Sector Breakfast Seminar: Ajax, Java & Mission Critical Applications
I'm very pleased to announce that I've been selected by Nexaweb to sit on a panel of Enterprise Web 2.0 experts. My co-panelists include: / Brant…
My Tags
We're serious about what we do. ;-) For those of you wondering, yes, those really are my plates.
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…
Meet team bdg
From left to right, that's Rich Weinhold, Andrew Morris, Chris Bucchere, Jennifer Dunleavey and Andrew Bays. Not present: Howie Bagley, Eric Bucchere…
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.…
Day one comes to a close
Now the team is off to have a fabulous dinner at Bix.
My 15 Minutes of Fame
Well, 20 actually. I just gave my talk on taglibs to a nice crowd of about 100 people. It was very well received!
Your name in lights
I got up early this AM and set up our booth. Here is the finished product.
Kurt Frieden
I had dinner with BEA Engineering Manager and long time friend, Kurt Frieden.
Surf's Up
I had an excellent surf session at Linda Mar in Pacifica. Conditions were perfect -- just as I remember them.
Memories
Even my rental car reminded me of Plumtree.
IN-N-OUT
You can't make a trip to California without stopping at an IN-N-OUT. My order? A 3x3 animal and protein style. If you know what that is, you're…
Sunburn :-(
I spent most of the day today on the beach playing sand soccer with my brother and cousins. Now I look like a boiled lobster. I should know better…
Bulkhead rules!
I "upgraded" to bulkhead on my flight out to SF today and I must say, it's about as close as you can get to first class on jetBlue. Plenty of room to…
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…
Fedora Core 5 Support for Intel Pro Wireless (Centrino)
I bought a new Gateway MP6954 Laptop yesterday and decided to give Linux another go. This time I told myself: I'm not even going to attempt to run…
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…
bdg welcomes Andrew Bays to the team
It is with great pleasure that I ask you all to join me in welcoming our newest addition to the team, Andrew Bays. / Andrew will be starting this…
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…
Cracking open ISO files
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…
Adventures in desktop linux
I've had such a good experience using Fedora on several of bdg's enterprise systems (SugarCRM, Subversion, Bugzilla, Vetrics, Connotea, etc.) that I…
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…