by XTIVIA | Jan 10, 2013 | Blog, Enterprise Java, Portals
Liferay has out-of-the-box OpenOffice integration which is robust and works very well for converting web content to a variety of document formats, including PDF. However, this approach requires you to have a separate OpenOffice server running, which may not be desired...
by XTIVIA | Jan 9, 2013 | Blog, Portals
Twitter Bootstrap is a popular, easy-to-use front-end framework that not only allows for rapid prototyping, but also comes with a robust set of features that let you easily implement a responsive design. If you’re building a site from scratch, all you have to do...
by XTIVIA | Jan 7, 2013 | Blog, Portals
If you spend any time in blogs or in online I.T. press you hear Big Data, scalable solutions, and NoSQL databases all the time. One popular NoSQL database solution is Mongo DB. Mongo is “document-based”, not “table-based”. It...
by XTIVIA | Jan 2, 2013 | Blog, Databases
I’m working on a data purging project for one of our clients and I’ll blog as it progresses. The first step was to find the oldest data in the database and let the application team look it over to decide what can be purged. I came up with the handy...
by XTIVIA | Jan 1, 2013 | Blog, Portals
In web development and marketing, A/B testing or split testing is an experimental approach to web design (especially user experience design), which aims to identify changes to web pages that increase or maximize an outcome of interest (e.g., click-through rate for a...
by XTIVIA | Dec 30, 2012 | Blog, Enterprise Java
I’m going to share some of my thoughts about multi-layer application API design. These are simple design problems, but I think it is good to have some discussion about them. Please feel free to present your point of view on these design items – I am eager to...
by XTIVIA | Dec 21, 2012 | Blog, Portals
This post briefly explains how to compile mod_jk on the Centos6.3 OS. Mod_jk is an Apache module that is used to connect Tomcat to Apache Http server or other web servers. System Setup OS: Centos 6.3 Webserver: Apache Http Server 2.2.15 Application Server: ...
by XTIVIA | Dec 12, 2012 | Blog, Data Management, Databases
Recently I received a call concerning failing backup jobs being taken via Expdp. I logged in to our Virtual-DBA client’s site and immediately checked the alertlog for errors. The below errors were found in the alertlog. Exporting orcl on DBHOST01 Sun Dec 16...
by XTIVIA | Dec 11, 2012 | Blog, Databases
Seeing a database in any state other than “online” makes me a little nervous. For one thing, it’s one of those things I don’t see often, so I have to rub a few brain cells together to remember what I did the last time. For another,...
by XTIVIA | Dec 11, 2012 | Blog, Portals
The blog entry Add a New Language to Liferay contains a note at the bottom about using <spring:message> tags with UTF-8 (Unicode) languages. This entry is meant to expound on those notes a little more. There are two main ways to handle Unicode in properties...
by XTIVIA | Dec 10, 2012 | Blog, Portals
In this article I’ll briefly explain my experience of how SELinux can affect Tomcat clustering. My setup is a single host with two Tomcat application servers with Liferay Enterprise 6.1.20 installed in a vertical cluster. System Setup OS: Centos 6.3 Webserver:...
by XTIVIA | Dec 9, 2012 | Blog, Portals
Liferay currently supports about 40 languages out of the box. The full list of translated languages and their progress may be seen here: http://translate.liferay.com/pootle/ What about adding a language to Liferay that is not one of the ones supported? The Cherokee...
by XTIVIA | Dec 3, 2012 | Blog, Enterprise Java, Portals
Identity Provider Custom Assertions After a request by a customer to provide custom attributes for an Identity Provider initiated login, I looked into what it would take to provide the attributes that were requested (a brief introduction to SAML can be viewed here)....
by XTIVIA | Nov 27, 2012 | Blog, Databases
Hi. I recently finished a project for a client who needed Update-Anywhere Repliction on one table between 4 DB2 version 9.1 databases at different locations. I thought I would share a high-level overview of the process I used, starting with 2-way...
