Recently a client asked about the differences between Liferay and social community products. Great question! Here are some points based on our work with customers. Social community products are narrowly focused and track social interactions well, but do not provide the breadth and depth that Liferay does from a web platform perspective. This results in situations where social...
Read More About Comparing Liferay and social community products »

This is part 3 of a series written for UI-dev/FED new to Liferay. This assumes you’re solid with css/html/javascript, and have at least a passing understanding of dynamic languages like PHP or ASP. If you have a Java background, you may want to skip the parts that explain stuff you already know. This post builds on the last posts , so if you haven't read those, you might want to go back and...
Read More About Tutorial: Advanced Navigation in Liferay Themes - Part 3 »

This is part 2 of a series written for UI-dev/FED new to Liferay. This assumes you’re solid with css/html/javascript, and have at least a passing understanding of dynamic languages like PHP or ASP. If you have a Java background, you may want to skip the parts that explain stuff you already know. This post builds on the last post , so if you haven't read that one, you might want to go back...
Read More About Tutorial: Advanced Navigation in Liferay Themes - Part 2 »

This is part 1 of a series written for UI-dev/FED new to Liferay. This assumes you’re solid with css/html/javascript, and have at least a passing understanding of dynamic languages like PHP or ASP. If you have a Java background, you may want to skip the parts that explain stuff you already know. When you first open a basic Liferay template like portal_normal.vm, the navigation’s usually...
Read More About Tutorial: Advanced Navigation in Liferay Themes »

A couple a days ago we had a client contact us and ask us to take a look as their Oracle Cloud Control 12c. They were having issues with a few targets that were reporting as being down on one screen and up on another. We logged into the server and tried to run ./emctl status oms and we recieved the below error. Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c Release 12.1.0.0.0 ...
Read More About Oracle Cloud Control 12c Reporting Targets Down »

  One of our Virtual-DBA clients has a small DB2 environment with version 9.7 on Linux and HADR connecting a primary and standby system.  When the application team created the database, it was created using Automatic Storage on the /home filesystem.  This will always happen when the default setting of DFTDBPATH in the DBM configuration file is set to the instance owner's...
Read More About Rolling DB2 tablespace location change using HADR »

We have a Virtual-DBA client that was rapidly running out of space for one of their databases in VMWare. To rectify the problem we decided to move a few tablespaces to a new LUN/disk presented to the VMWare OS. We had a scheduled downtime window so we didn’t need to leave the database online to perform the move. If we had wanted to leave the database online we could have used RMAN to...
Read More About Moving datafiles to a different disk/lun linux Oracle 10gR2 »

This Saturday we were scheduled to patch eight oracle 11gR2 databases with the latest CPU/SPU set for one of our Virtual-DBA clients. The databases were running in a zone on Solaris 10. This is normally a pretty straight forward process, but this weekend we ran into an issue that we wanted to share. We started by moving the patches to the server and unzipping them in a directory. We...
Read More About File libclntsh.so.11.1 still in use patching Oracle 11gR2 »

Often times when implementing data integration projects - we come across a need to implement a row/key based lookup and based on the found/not-found condition update or insert a row. I started implementing a simple data flow in SSIS. The idea was simple and has been implemented by quite a few folks and information is available all over the web. Yet when I built the simple workflow, I ran...
Read More About SSIS 2012 Reporting Driver Errors »

Today we had a client ask us to help them patch their Oracle Financials R12
Read More About Patching Oracle Applications R12 »