Keep it in Memory, Don’t Forget
20 years ago when I got a 80386 Windows-95 PC with ¾ inch Floppy Drive, 4 MB RAM (I don’t remember the HDD capacity – I believe it was around 120MB or so) from my infrastructure guy, I felt like I’m hero on the street advertising to everyone the great piece of...
Scheduling Backups on your SQL Server
Shortly after creating a database on your server you should be planning and scheduling your backup. Easy as it sounds it’s often approached incorrectly. Often the decision when to backup is based on when the server resource usage is low. Database Backup maintenance...
Managing Connections to a DB2 Database
Usually only a DBA forces or even views connections to a DB2 database. But in many small companies, people play multiple roles, and I thought I’d share a detailed introduction to how to look at and force off connections to a DB2 database. All details and...
4 Prerequisites for Enterprise AngularJS Applications
Here are 4 prerequisites for Enterprise AngularJS Applications, everyone should pay attention to. This will help in achieving successful and timely delivery of quality enterprise AngularJS applications.
Migrating Liferay SDK to Maven – Dependencies
The liferay-plugin-package.properties file is used to list dependencies from the portal’s jars. At deployment time, Liferay will copy the listed jars from the portal’s WEB-INF/lib directory to the artifact’s WEB-INF/lib directory. Defining...
Rapid UI Development using AngularJS
AngularJS has been around for some time and has proven itself to be a framework that is here to stay. While there is a lot of promise (pun intended!) and speculation around the AngularJS 2.0 release, the 1.x releases have stabilized quite a bit. Checkout this blog...
Liferay 6.2 Theme Development Tips: Speeding Up the Work
The basic process of Liferay 6.2 Theme development involves creating a new theme, make changes to it, and deploy. It’s really a simple process; however. the only drawback to this process is that every time you make any changes to a theme, you will need to deploy it to...
InforCRM / SalesLogix Client-side Validation
In most case I try to do the validation for InforCRM form input on the server side. This is generally easier to implement (sometimes a lot easier), more reliable, and the performance is usually close (sometimes even better, if there are a lot of queries involved, as...
Customizing the Activity Form on InforCRM / SalesLogix
In InforCRM 8 the activity editor has been completely reworked to be entirely Javascript based. Although this brought a little bit of pain as none of the previous customizations carried over, and there wasn’t a whole lot of documentation available, it’s a...
Introduction to Using the PowerShell Command Line for DB2 on Windows
A lot of DB2 LUW DBAs spend significantly more time working with DB2 on Linux and UNIX than they do working with DB2 on Microsoft Windows. This can lead to frustration when administering DB2 on Windows. Using a PowerShell command line for DB2 instead of a DB2 Command...
VirtualBox Networks: DHCP vs Static IP
On my third day at XTIVIA, it was recommended I tinker with Oracle’s free VirtualBox. The following week, I was hooked! A Unix guy at heart, I can launch whichever flavor of Linux desktop I’m in the mood for, while Windows keeps running and all the tools...
Profiling Data with SSIS
SQL Server Integration Services offers a useful tool to analyze data before you bring it into your Data Warehouse. The Profile Task will store the analysis in an XML file, which you can view using the Data Profile Viewer. Before we review how to use the...