by XTIVIA | Nov 20, 2012 | Blog, Databases
Here at XTIVIA, we have standardized on an agile process we’ve coined as XDLC (XTIVIA Development Lifecycle). XDLC is largely based on Scrum and other agile techniques that enable us to quickly deliver maximum value for our Enterprise Portal/Java...
by XTIVIA | Nov 19, 2012 | Blog, Databases
Liferay v6.1 introduced a new end-user customization capability wherein we can create a customizable page in a site that allows an end-user to add or remove portlets on the page or drag and drop portlets in different places on the page. In order to enable...
by XTIVIA | Nov 15, 2012 | Blog, Databases
Learn how to setup and backup Informix Dynamic Server and ISM Let’s talk about the Informix Dynamic Server. I have often been asked how difficult it is to use ISM and Onbar to backup their Informix Dynamic Server. I gave a webinar early in October that will...
by XTIVIA | Oct 21, 2012 | News
Liferay, Inc., provider of the world’s leading enterprise AwardBlack170open source portal platform, announced it has awarded XTIVIA, Inc. the 2012 Liferay “North America Partner of the Year.” This announcement was made at the 7th Annual Liferay North America Symposium...
by XTIVIA | Oct 11, 2012 | Blog, Perspectives
Over the past 20 years or so the concept of Design Patterns has emerged as a way to classify and define solutions to Information Technology challenges. In the software engineering community, patterns typically relate to technical topics and fill an important...
by XTIVIA | Oct 2, 2012 | Blog, Databases
I recently had a client ask me about how to use profiler. I looked online and did not find anything that was concise and to the point for what I wanted to show him so I decided to just make a quick tutorial which is listed below. This tutorial covers the usage...
by XTIVIA | Oct 1, 2012 | Blog, Databases
Quick, DBA with the sysadmin role in SQL Server: What’s your default database? I’ll bet you think it’s the master database. But, as I learned this weekend, that’s not something you can take for granted — especially if you didn’t...
by XTIVIA | Sep 28, 2012 | Blog, Databases
Given the general mayhem and wanton destruction database developers can inflict on an organization, you’d think there’d be a best-practices set of SQL Server permissions that DBAs should grant developers. Or better yet, a “dbdeveloper” server...
by XTIVIA | Sep 26, 2012 | Blog, Databases
One way to make your DB2 database use less storage and speed up Inserts and Updates is to drop the indexes that are never used. As the application changes and the database workload changes, you may find many indexes are no longer needed. Dropping these...
by XTIVIA | Sep 17, 2012 | Blog, Portals
Portlets are the basic building blocks of any site running Liferay. The default portlet styles are fine; but to really make your site sing, you can get a handle on them and dress them up to look as good as the rest of that theme you so lovingly handcrafted. Let’s...
by XTIVIA | Sep 4, 2012 | News
09-04-12 XTIVIA will showcase expertise at open-source industry event XTIVIA, Inc., a leading provider of mission critical Liferay-based customer portal solutions, announced today its participation as a Platinum sponsor at this year’s Liferay North America Symposium....
by XTIVIA | Sep 3, 2012 | Blog, Enterprise Java, Portals
This question comes up a lot. I think it’s important to understand the primary features and functions of what each does. Portals arrived in the the late 1990’s with Yahoo.com and Excite.com. They are a way of personalizing and aggregating...
by XTIVIA | Aug 29, 2012 | Blog, Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, Portals
Part 2: Personalization and Security A previous blog post in this series introduced the Liferay dashboard framework that XTIVIA has developed as serviceware that is available for purchase by our Liferay implementation customers. This post will continue the...
by XTIVIA | Aug 21, 2012 | Blog, Enterprise Java, Portals
Liferay has extensive web content management capabilities. It can easily scale to present millions of pieces of content via the web. But, how do your users find what they want? Enterprise search can be a mystery to the uninitiated. Often it becomes a...
