XTIVIA BLOG
AUI Dialog
During my last project, we used javascript "lightbox"-style modal overlays to display and submit forms without changing the current page. The AUI Dialog object is useful for this purpose. In this example, we'll display a simple form containing one textarea field in our dialog...
First things
I've read the case files. Have you? Everything you need to find him is there in those pages. - Then tell me how. - First principles, Clarice. Simplicity. Hannibal Lecter's advice works as well for DBAs as it does for FBI agents. What does SQL Server covet? A master...
When brains are needed, brawn won’t help.
The truth of this Yiddish proverb has been repeatedly reveled to me in both my personal and professional lives. Professionally, I cannot begin to count the number of client’s with whom I have worked who have tried to solve a SQL Server performance issue with more hardware – the...
Nightmares
I have two recurring career related nightmares one of which I’ve come to discover is part of the shared consciousness of many DBAs: catastrophic database failure. Not that we haven’t trained for efficient and timely recovery in preparation for such an event, but that our...
RAC – What to look for when taking over an Oracle RAC
Assuming you don't know anything literally about the Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) environment, You should start with: 1. Database version, O/S version, how many nodes, tns names, listener information? 2. Database Size, Storage architecture, raid/ASM info. ? 3. Details...
DB2 Replication Video Demonstration
Please check out this video on how to set up replication using IBM DB2 Replication Center. Be sure and contact me if you have any questions. Thanks for viewing! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uLe9Mc3oCE
RSS, Blogs, and Problem Characters in Titles: Revenge of the Colon
When you write your blog entry, you usually don't think about things like colons (:). It turns out that Liferay at least as of 6.0 SP1 has issues with colons in blog entry titles, which is especially noticeable in the RSS feeds. How to fix these? Thanks to Open Source, you can...
Liferay Session Replication with Tomcat
One of the primary motivations for setting up Liferay in a cluster is to provide high availability in the event of an application server crash. In this post, I will run through the process of configuring Tomcat to provide basic session replication, which is a critical aspect of...
Setting up an SSL Keystore for IBM HTTP Server version 7
Recently, I was asked by a client to help them set up a couple of SSL certificates on two IBM HTTP Server (IHS) environments; one for QA, and one for development. It'd been a while since I worked with SSL certificates, but from what I recalled, it's always been a rather...
Developing Portlets for Salesforce.com Integration, Part 2
Creating Portlets for Integration With Salesforce.com Part 2: Making Calls Against the Web Service Integration with the Salesforce.com API is a feature that is highly desirable for any organization which uses that platform to track opportunities in the sales pipeline; as a...