Migrating Liferay SDK to Maven – Projects
Ant-based development used in the Liferay SDK fell out of favor with developers a long time ago; modern build tools such as Maven are now all the rage. Although it took Liferay a while to update the tool chain, Maven is now a supported Liferay build tool....
onconfig_diff comparison tool for Informix onconfig files
How to run diff on Informix configuration (onconfig) files IBM introduced a new tool in Informix 11.70.xC4 called “onconfig_diff”, located under the $INFORMIXDIR/bin directory. This tool will show you the difference between two onconfig files in an easily...
Effective Liferay Production Setup
Many times an incorrect process is used to set up the production application server for Liferay: Download a Liferay bundle. Expand on the server. Start up and go. We cannot emphasize how wrong, wrong, wrong this is. Best practices for a production Liferay setup...
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, SAML and multiple virtual hosts
Once upon a time… Sometimes a new project becomes a challenge. That’s the interesting part of software development; otherwise, this job would not be as special as it is! And the reason could not only be the technology you have to use, or the specific...