by XTIVIA | Feb 24, 2013 | Blog, Portals
Microsoft Excel is the de facto standard spreadsheet tool used by businesses around the world and houses some of the most critical business information. However businesses often struggle to make this information available to employees and other stakeholders that would...
by XTIVIA | Feb 10, 2013 | Blog, Business Intelligence, Databases, Portals
A very large gift given to us user interface developers in Liferay 6.1 is the inclusion of SASS support. One of the many ways SASS comes in handy is handling prefixed CSS rules – instead of having to specify each rule every time you, say, want to declare a gradient,...
by XTIVIA | Jan 10, 2013 | Blog, Enterprise Java, Portals
Liferay has out-of-the-box OpenOffice integration which is robust and works very well for converting web content to a variety of document formats, including PDF. However, this approach requires you to have a separate OpenOffice server running, which may not be desired...
by XTIVIA | Jan 9, 2013 | Blog, Portals
Twitter Bootstrap is a popular, easy-to-use front-end framework that not only allows for rapid prototyping, but also comes with a robust set of features that let you easily implement a responsive design. If you’re building a site from scratch, all you have to do...
by XTIVIA | Jan 7, 2013 | Blog, Portals
If you spend any time in blogs or in online I.T. press you hear Big Data, scalable solutions, and NoSQL databases all the time. One popular NoSQL database solution is Mongo DB. Mongo is “document-based”, not “table-based”. It...
by XTIVIA | Jan 1, 2013 | Blog, Portals
In web development and marketing, A/B testing or split testing is an experimental approach to web design (especially user experience design), which aims to identify changes to web pages that increase or maximize an outcome of interest (e.g., click-through rate for a...
by XTIVIA | Dec 21, 2012 | Blog, Portals
This post briefly explains how to compile mod_jk on the Centos6.3 OS. Mod_jk is an Apache module that is used to connect Tomcat to Apache Http server or other web servers. System Setup OS: Centos 6.3 Webserver: Apache Http Server 2.2.15 Application Server: ...
by XTIVIA | Dec 10, 2012 | Blog, Portals
In this article I’ll briefly explain my experience of how SELinux can affect Tomcat clustering. My setup is a single host with two Tomcat application servers with Liferay Enterprise 6.1.20 installed in a vertical cluster. System Setup OS: Centos 6.3 Webserver:...
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 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...
