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…
2005
We've moved!
Effective immediately, bdg's new place of business is located at 13800 Coppermine Road in Herndon, Virginia, just 10 minutes from Washington Dulles…
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…
CSS -- who knew?
I went to the final set of sessions at NVSS today which included a gem of a presentation by Eitan Suez, a Java programmer who also happens to be a…
Did you write the famous hangman Java applet?
I also get asked this question from time to time. Unfortunately, I can't take credit for that great little game (and one of Sun's original sample…
My new hero, Ted Neward
I'm at the Northern Virginia Software Symposium this weekend, and after hearing Ted Neward speak yesterday on "The Fallacies of Enterprise Systems…
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…
How to pronounce (and not pronounce) Bucchere
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…
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…