I’m very pleased to announce that bdg’s social news site and first consumer play, Feedhaus, has entered a private alpha.
Powered by RSS/ATOM feeds, Feedhaus is a community-based, tag-driven social news aggregator that aims to change the way people consume news on the internet.
If you’d like to get invited to the private beta, drop us a line.
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 time:
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday: ALI Administration
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday: ALI Portlet Development
Wednesday will be a “double up” day when we do advanced administration for admins and introductory administration for developers.
Training will run 9AM-5PM each day with a break for lunch. The location will be as follows:
All of us at bdg are very pleased to announce that we’ve converted our BEA partner relationship from a “Select Services Partner” to a “Value Added Reseller.” We’re now authorized to sell any and all of BEA’s 40+ products. Now bdg can be your one stop shop for BEA products, top-notch professional services and add-on products such as Project Excelerator. Contact us today at [email protected] and find out what we can do for you!
Off The Record Research, a subscription-based Wall Street publication, recently prepared a research brief on BEA that was released to their customers on May 9th. Although I can’t post the entire article here (as it’s for paying customers only), I will say that I was quoted twice in the research brief. Here’s what I said:
[BEA’s] AquaLogic is different from a lot of the products in this space. IBM [Corp.], Microsoft [Corp.] and SAP [AG] require you to buy the whole suite. BEA with AquaLogic is more agnostic. [The other vendors’ products] break down [in a heterogeneous environment].
Later in the article, I mentioned BID’s new development efforts, to which those in the know are know calling PEP (for Pages, Ensemble and Pathways):
[BEA AquaLogic’s] Ensemble, Pages and Pathways are going to change the world. BEA is doing it again with Web 2.0, with community-centric software. We need to do this for the enterprise. They are cracking open a whole new market.
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 developers. We’ll be accepting registrations until 4/13, so if you’re interested, please send a note to [email protected].
I realize it’s close to April Fools’ Day, but this is not a joke: you can actually use Firebug in IE. Well, sort of. Joe Hewitt, the author of every developer’s favorite Firefox extension, has created a Javascript file that you can drop into your web pages and, voila, you get the debug console. And it works in IE. I realize this isn’t quite as good as the full blown Firebug, but it’s sure a lot better than the alternative:
<script>// <![CDATA[ alert('this sucks'); // ]]></script>
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 fun begins at 9 AM EST this Friday, 12/15 at http://www.aqualogicinteraction.com.
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!