New Development with the Liferay Open Source Portal Server
Today at the huge technology conference in San Francisco, JavaOne, Sun Microsystems announced an open source initiative with Liferay, Inc. I am also glad to announce that my firm has been working with Sun this year to create a Social Networking application based on the Liferay Portal Server. [Read More]
Posted at 11:24PM May 07, 2008 by Walter Hardy in General | Comments[0]
Our new Travel Planner at www.GoVermont.com
My company released a new edition of www.GoVermont.com last week. This is a reinvention of the Vermont Travel Planner that I originally created in 1995. It has been very popular in the past and also provided lodging content to the State of Vermont through their skiing websites for many years (on www.SkiVermont.com).[Read More]
Posted at 03:10PM Apr 25, 2008 by Walter Hardy in General | Comments[0]
The New Generation of Search Engine Optimization
Not too many years-or even months-ago, there was a concept to "optimize" a website for search-engine positioning. Companies existed for the sake of providing Search Engine Optimization services. For a thousand dollars or more, a firm would perform a comprehensive evaluation of a website and offer a set of recommendations on how to better optimize it for best possible search engine ranking. These recommendations may include installing a comprehensive set of Meta tags in pages, writing content to include more repetitive key words, extending the domain expiration and much more. [Read More]
Posted at 12:00AM Dec 21, 2007 by Walter Hardy in General | Comments[0]
TLC3: Installing the Sun Java System Portal Server
In this article I detail how I install the Sun Java System Portal Server, Version 7.1, Update 1, on a Solaris 10 x86 Sun server. Although I run into a couple of snags, I’d like to point out how simple this process is. One of the advantages of Sun’s portal server over competitive products is that the installation process completely automates the integration of the Portal Server, Application Server, Directory Server, Access Manager and other required components. [Read More]
Posted at 02:14PM Nov 25, 2007 by Walter Hardy in Sun Java System Portal Server | Comments[3]
TLC2: Why Portals?
Portals provide new levels of functionality and productivity for the enterprise.[Read More]
Posted at 01:12PM Nov 21, 2007 by Walter Hardy in Sun Java System Portal Server | Comments[0]
TLC1: Introducing the Sun Java System Portal Server
This is the first of a series of Learning Curve articles that will describe my experience of building a sample portal application. This first article is about my research. It describes my project requirements and the products I'll use, and have used: Sun Java System Portal Server, along with related products like Java CAPS and OpenPortal. In the next article I'll describe in detail how I installed the Sun Java System Portal Server on Solaris. [Read More]
Posted at 11:48AM Nov 20, 2007 by Walter Hardy in Sun Java System Portal Server | Comments[1]
New Blogging Software: Apache Roller!
I am pleased to be blogging here on our installed version of the Apache Roller open source Java blog software! This is the same blogging software used by IBM, Sun Microsystems and thousands of other users worldwide.[Read More]
Posted at 08:33PM Nov 19, 2007 by Walter Hardy in General | Comments[0]
