My adventure with the displaytags library continues (see slf4j on JBoss 7 and Portlet CSS support with displaytags ) Since I'm using AJAX to load various views and subviews in my portlet via ResourceURLs (a JSR-286 function), I wound up rendering a page utilizing displaytags via a ResourceRequest and receiving a java.lang.ClassCastException for my troubles. A brief bit of research...
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When you write your blog entry, you usually don't think about things like colons (:). It turns out that Liferay at least as of 6.0 SP1 has issues with colons in blog entry titles, which is especially noticeable in the RSS feeds. How to fix these? Thanks to Open Source, you can fix them yourself pretty easily. This fix requires an EXT environment as you will be overriding 2 core Liferay...
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Which BI tool is right for us? Every organization faces this decision when they are looking to build a BI solution. We have had a lot of customers ask this to us. Without going into too much detail, I will outline the process I like to use. Price is almost always a consideration but beyond pricing, compare tools that you are considering using the following checklist: 1. General use: This...
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