Adding a User Property to Oracle WebCenter Interaction
on Nov 4, 2009 in WCI portal oracle Recently I had to create a portal security group for director level and above employees. Our HR system feeds Active Directory a field containing each persons grade. Based on the grade it is possible to determine which users should be included in the...

Blogger Buzz: New Transparent Navbar Styles
on Nov 2, 2009 in blogger social webitty I just started using a new Blogger feature and it looks great. Blogger Buzz: New Transparent Navbar Styles If you can't tell the difference it is because this blog looks good with the default navbar at the top. However, the new light transparent styl...

Amazon EC2 Now 15% Lower Price
on Oct 29, 2009 in cloud Effective November 1, 2009 United States prices for Linux/UNIX usage will drop from 10 cents an hour to 8.5 cents per hour. By my quick calculations this will drop the minimum monthly fee for a continuously available instance from around $72 to just...

Oracle WebCenter Interaction Security
on Oct 22, 2009 in WCI portal oracle One of the strengths of the WebCenter Interaction (WCI) portal is extremely granular security.  Every WCI portal object has security.  This can also create a maintenance nightmare when security needs change.  It is difficult to remembe...

IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition — Free and OS Java IDE
on Oct 16, 2009 in IDE grails This is almost great news. The open source version of IntelliJ IDEA will only be missing one feature that I want, the Grails framework. http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/nextversion/free_java_ide.html Somehow I doubt they will sell me one feature witho...

Grails Hosting in the Cloud
on Sep 17, 2009 in cloud hosting How simple can hosting become? I’m not interested in a private cloud or putting servers in a public cloud, I want a cloud web site. To me the difference is with a server in the cloud you need to configure and manage the application server, while ho...

Resource List from kellyrob99.com: The Kaptain on ... stuff
on Sep 10, 2009I found this great list of resources today: Do you make keeping up with technology a priority? Have you found a way to prevent drowning in the vast sea of content AND still keep abreast of everything you want to? Me neither, but here’s where I go t...

Waiting on Oracle Sunset
on Sep 3, 2009 in open source sun oracle The worry over MySQL may hold up Oracle's acquisition of Sun. Sun has so much hardware and software yet it is the potential Oracle ownership of the open source database that could be a problem for competition. I don't know that I disagree but it is i...

The Pragmatic Programmers Have a Free Magazine
on Sep 2, 2009 in groovy For three months there has been a magazine available from the The Pragmatic Programmers and I just found out. Scott Davis has a nice Groovy article in the September edition.

SpringSource Launches Enterprise Java Cloud
on Aug 19, 2009 in cloud grails SpringSource Launches Enterprise Java CloudThis is interesting. However, I am always a little nervous about a single vendor providing every part of a solution. I think that may not be justified, especially in this case. I've assumed for some time tha...