by Keith O'Connell | Feb 7, 2012 | Blog, Portals
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,...
by XTIVIA | Feb 5, 2012 | Blog, Portals
Most of us would have seen the carousel on Liferay’s home page (http://www.liferay.com/). The Carousel widget is a continuous, circular navigation of a collection of items (divs or images). In this blog, I am going to talk about a carousel portlet that was...
by XTIVIA | Feb 3, 2012 | Blog, Portals
More and more of our customers are looking at creating Liferay based portal sites that adapt themselves to different form factor devices ranging from traditional desktop and notebook browsers to tablets to smart phones. Rather than creating separate traditional and...
by XTIVIA | Feb 3, 2012 | Blog, Databases
When we focus on IO performance for SQL Server it is vitally important to understand the architecture of the disk subsystem. Typically, a DBA will focus on Disk Queue Length as the primary measure of IO performance; however, in a Storage Area Network (SAN)...
by XTIVIA | Feb 1, 2012 | Blog, Databases
SQL Server : How to decide which composite index to create? Creating new indexes can be a significant change and it is important to note that adding unnecessary indexes is not a good strategy. While indexes lead to better READ performance they will reduce the WRITE...
by XTIVIA | Feb 1, 2012 | Blog, Databases
(With sincere respect and admiration of the Coasters.) Lunchtime and you’re heading out the door Alerts ring your server is no more CPU is pegged, SQL stuck, transactions are stacking Operations says your response better not be lacking Dakety DAC (SQL won’t talk back)...
by Jon Ilko | Jan 31, 2012 | Blog, Portals
So if you are not familiar with AlloyUI, it is a user interface web application framework. It’s purpose is to help make building and designing web applications an enjoyable experience. For more information on AlloyUI you can see Nate Cavanaugh’s blog. Some...
by XTIVIA | Jan 31, 2012 | Blog, Databases
I’ve done a fair bit of work implementing custom ETL solutions with SSIS concluding that the tool provides excellent “out-of-the-box” support for ETL as well as almost limitlessly extensibility with the Script component. If you have a need to bring data from...
by XTIVIA | Jan 30, 2012 | Blog, Enterprise Java, Portals
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...
by XTIVIA | Dec 20, 2011 | Blog, Databases
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...
by XTIVIA | Dec 4, 2011 | Blog, Databases
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...
by XTIVIA | Dec 1, 2011 | Blog, Databases
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...
