XTIVIA BLOG
Don’t do that!
A colleague wanted to work an old Henny Youngman joke into a performance analysis. He wound up not using it, so I will: Man goes to the doctor. He swings his arm and says, "Doc, it hurts when I do this." Doc says, "Don't do that!" I came across this error message this morning:...
My DB2 table REORG webinar for the DB2night show
Hello again, I presented on DB2 Table Reorg on Friday, March 2 for the DB2Night show's 4th annual DB2's Got Talent contest. I'm one of 10 finalists from around the world and Friday was the first of 3 rounds to choose a winner. The presentations are only 4 minutes...
Liferay 6.1 | Footer Navigation Links with Web Content
Leveraging the configuration power of Liferay's new Theme Settings API we can build footer Navigation links with the webcontent without needing to edit the theme and redeploying everytime a new link needs to be added or a style needs to be changed. 1. Create a theme setting...
Liferay 6.1 | Webcontent Based Multi Column Navigation Menu
For a navigation menu with longer sub menu navigation items, multi column menu navigation layout is the latest design trend which provides a solution for better usability and space management. It's even nicer to have an image that can be part of the navigation. Thankfully the...
Loading data in a DB2 HADR environment
Importing data in DB2 HADR takes some extra considerations. For one, non-logged activity is not replicated to the Standby database. So if you use the LOAD command to import data into a table on the Primary database, the same table on the Standby database will go...
Liferay Alloy UI Calendar DatePicker and DatePickerSelect
This is a simple tutorial to create an input textbox with the alloy ui calendar datepicker. Simple DatePicker: 1. Include the below taglib directive to your jsp <%@ taglib prefix="aui" uri="http://liferay.com/tld/aui" %> 2. Wrap your date field input box around a div...
SSRS: View all subscriptions
Problem: You're an admin in SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS). You want to see everybody's subscriptions on all reports. Yet you can only see your own. Solution: You can do this easily. You just can't do it in Report Manager. But remember that Report Manager is just a front...
Top 10 reasons why Liferay is the best Enterprise Portal product
At XTIVIA, we have extensive experience delivering enterprise portal, content management, and collaboration solutions since the late 1990s, and have seen this product space mature and evolve over the years. We started with traditional commercial software from the likes of...
Integrating Solr with Liferay 6.1 in a JBoss Managed Domain
As a followup to my previous article detailing how to deploy Liferay in a Jboss managed domain, I decided that I should build on that and explain how to deploy the Apache Solr enterprise search engine to a separate node within the Jboss-managed domain. This will explain how to...
Configuring Liferay 6.1 CE GA1 on JBoss 7.0.2 as a Managed Domain
Well, Liferay 6.1 CE GA1 is out, and anyone who uses Liferay should be very excited. This release sports a bunch of new features, including significantly improved site staging and publishing, dynamic data lists, improved mobility/social capabilities, faceted search, the ability...