http://blogs.whardy.com/walter W. Hardy Interactive, Inc. Blogs Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:44:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I am constantly amazed at how stable Sun Solaris is. Since many of our company websites run on Windows 2003 with IIS, I’m very accustomed to having to reboot servers weekly, and getting early morning wake-up calls from our server watchdogs. But Solaris--it just doesn’t quit. I had left one production ... http://blogs.whardy.com/walter/2009/11/10/the-operating-system-that-keeps-on-ticking/ I am excited to announce that we have completed the move of our hosting environment to the Plug and Play Tech Center in Sunnyvale, CA. This high-tech hosting environment provides us with ample room for growth with additional bandwidth, services and space. The Plug and Play Tech Center ... http://blogs.whardy.com/walter/2008/10/29/our-new-hosting/ 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 ... http://blogs.whardy.com/walter/2008/05/07/the-new-generation-of-search-engine-optimization/ 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. I have written ... http://blogs.whardy.com/walter/2008/05/07/new-development-with-the-liferay-open-source-portal-server/ We launched 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 ... http://blogs.whardy.com/walter/2008/04/30/our-new-travel-planner-at-wwwgovermontcom/ 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 ... http://blogs.whardy.com/walter/2007/12/11/tlc1-introducing-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 ... http://blogs.whardy.com/walter/2007/11/26/tlc3-installing-the-sun-java-system-portal-server/ Portals provide new levels of functionality and productivity for the enterprise. They allow users and groups to work together easily and securely. Why? They provide members with powerful desktop tools that ease collaboration on many levels, help manage workflow, and give developers the tools they need to build new applications. Portals ... http://blogs.whardy.com/walter/2007/11/26/tlc2-why-portals/ Accessing Production Databases and Managing Databases with the Bundled Java DB In the last journal I explored working with the Sun Java Studio Creator bundled database. I found that the Java DB was included with the Java Studio Creator IDE and available for building my applications. The Java DB is Sun's ... http://blogs.whardy.com/walter/2007/03/12/learning-curve-series-journal-9/ Database Connectivity, Part 1: Working with Java DB (Derby) Now that I've worked with components and consumed web services using the Java Studio Creator 2 IDE, I'm ready to learn what I can do with database integration. Mostly, I work with Microsoft SQL Server and MySQL for production and, on occasion, ... http://blogs.whardy.com/walter/2006/09/13/learning-curve-series-journal-8/