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I have moved my blog to a new location http://www.pcmspace.com.Apologies for the inconvenience.

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As a part of my recent implementation in OpenCms, one of the main requirement was to customize the OpenCms Property window by providing browse facility for setting properties as provided by TemplateOne. After lots of searching, I hardly got any information about how TemplateOne did. After digging deep into OpenCms, finally managed to build customized property dialog box with the following

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The tool, known as Krugle, is all set to make a difference in Search domain. Till now developers use Google, Yahoo etc. search engines to search for source code which we all know is not too convincing search. Krugle is a search engine for source code and code-related information. It is designed to deliver easy access to source code and other highly relevant technical information in a single,

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Some days back I wrote an Article "Are we ready to adopt Ajax to improve usability? " highlighting the various questions that need to be answered before we can really adopt it.Here is one initiative called "Open Ajax Project" that aims to create a single framework that standardizes development and debugging on a common library of Ajax widgets that could run on multiple Ajax runtimes. Open Ajax is

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There have been quite a few inititatives like POST, portletswap etc. to encourage people to submit their work in Portlets/Portal world but none really took off. More recently Liferay, a leading opensource Portal, started with "portal themes" contest which ended last month end. The idea was to build the graphic user interface "skins" which helps developers to change the look and feel of the portal

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In my earlier post, "Are we ready to adopt Ajax to improve usability?", I highlighted that best bet for the existing sites is to start small may be including an ajax based components or use ajax to validate form fields etc. Here is one of the example.This is an Ajax based Opinion Poll which is provided by dPolls which can be a component by itself. So we can build our own components like this and

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Google recently launched personalized homepage service for Mobile handsets after its success for desktops. This was announced soon after google made its mark in telecom industry by alliance with Motorola and being the default search engine with Opera Mini browser. The mobile homepage like for PC, will provide personalized information on one page with options to access Gmail, local weather and

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There has been lot of talks about Ajax and usability with Ajax all set to change the user experience all over the Web. Nothing comes for free, if it has various advantages there are several disadvantages along with it. Advantages are pretty well known but lets look at the various disadvantages in terms of usability: One of the major complaint against Ajax is that it break the expected behavior of

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Recently I was involved in one of the OpenCms implementations. My initial thought about the product was that it is not in match with some of the other products in market but after exploring a while I realized its potential and extensibility. In one of the recent post "From Vignette to OpenCms", Apoorv pointed out its inability to have separate environments like staging and production. I truly

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Days after Google announced to be default search engine with Opera Mini, Google has announced its alliance with Motorola handsets to enable easy access to search engine. Motorola will integrate a Google icon onto select devices so that users can connect directly to Google anytime, anywhere at the click of a button. These mass-market, Internet-optimized handsets will be distributed from early 2006

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Google, after proving on the Search front in Internet domain is all set to become default search engine on mobile phones. Google Inc.'s search features will be included within the Opera Mini as a default search engine, a new browser for cell phones due to launch this month. It will help Google gain more traction with wireless Web users.Lets wait and watch how Google does on this front.

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Year 2005 had been a happening year in Portals and Content Management domain.Google emerging and standing out from rest of the world growing many folds and exploring in different domains. We saw products like Google Talk, Google Desktop and side bar, Google earth etc. It has really picked up itself from now just being a search player but growing in portal space.AJAX buzz word that took the world

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Fatwire recently announced the release of Fatwire Content Server 6.3 and Fatwire Analytics which is the latest addition to Fatwire CS product family along with CS Direct, Direct Advantage, CS Engage etc. The new release features:Insite Templating that will help business users to play around with content components or better known as pagelets. They can add, remove, resize and relocate content.

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Translations.com and FatWire Software announced a combined product offering that eliminates barriers to cooperation between global resources. FatWire Software's premier content management application, Content Server, and Translations.com's Globalization Management System, GlobalLink, are both established as industry leading solutions in their own right. The seamless integration of these two

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Google's new search feature let people quickly get airline flight information. Type in two different cities, or airport codes, in the Google search box and it will bring up two boxes to enter departing and returning flight dates. Below those are links to the travel Web sites Expedia, Hotwire and Orbitz. Clicking on one of those links leads directly to flight options for your selected itinerary on

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Verity recently announced the availability of newest release of its specialized search application platform, the Verity K2E Version 6.0. Version 6.0 includes : New Business Console which enables administrators and business managers to view search trends, react quickly to changing search patterns, and provide targeted results to end-users. It can also be integrated with Verity Collaborative

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IBM announced new open source version of its Websphere Application Server, the WebSphere application Server Community Edition (WAS CE). WAS CE is based on the Apache Software Foundation's Geronimo open source application server and is the outcome of the IBM's acquisition of Gluecode Software last May. WAS CE is a lightweight Java Enterprise Edition-certified application server that is a 60MB

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Exploit code is being circulated that can crash both patched and unpatched Oracle 10g databases. The code, posted on the mailing list, exploits a buffer overflow vulnerability in certain versions of Oracle's databases and could be used by attackers to bring down a database.Read more atExploit code for Oracle hole surfacesExploit Code Released for Oracle Hole

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Fatwire, a leader in Content Management space, and Sybase, a leader in wireless solutions technology, announced the availability of a joint solution intended to increase the speed and effectiveness of building and deploying mobile content applications.The combined technologies will enable business users to have access to content management functionality from PDAs and mobile phones allowing them

Shishanknoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14923636.post-1129866935927067702005-10-21T09:09:00.000+05:302005-10-21T09:25:35.933+05:30

Yash Technologies announced the JSR 168 compliant SyncEx collaboration portlets for MS Exchange Server. It provide users the ability to integrate Microsoft Exchange emails, appointments, contacts, tasks in portal. The evaluation version is available readily for IBM WebSphere Portal, BEA Weblogic Portal, eXo Portal and Liferay Enterprise Portal servers.Check out more about these Collaboration

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We are know about eBay and here is an interesting deal on eBay. Jux2, a meta search engine which let you compare results across major search engines, is for sale on eBay. Jux2 came into picture as a comparative research tool to determine how different are the various search engines like Google, Yahoo, MSN and Ask Jeeves and is anyone better than other?With Jux2 you can: Get much more relevant

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In one of my earlier posts I mentioned about "Plumtree getting ready to launch major new version" but not much information was available about the changes in the new release.Plumtree recently released G6 which focuses on Seven Key areas: Extensive infrastructure improvements Unifies the Plumtree architecture for JSR-168 and WSRP portlet consumption. Improved flexibility for content

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BEA Systems and Day software announced that they have entered into a technology alliance to deliver a JSR 170-compliant connector for BEA WebLogic Portal. Day is the initiator of JSR 170, the new standard for enterprise content, and is leading a global industry expert group, including technology vendors such as BEA, IBM, Oracle, and SAP, which jointly developed the standard.This is in series with

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Google just released a web-based RSS client called Google Reader enabling users to find and subscribe to online feeds and organizing the information. The product features a clean, easy-to-use interface and includes a comprehensive feed finder, multi-media feed displays, and algorithms that can assist users with automatic content prioritization, plus easy sharing capabilities with email and 'blog

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Novell has released the latest version of SuSE Linux 10, its Linux distribution . It is the first Novell distribution to have been built under its OpenSuSE community model. The distribution comes with GNOME 2.12 and KDE 3.4.2 and includes more than 1,500 open-source Linux applications and packages that can be optionally installed for Web hosting, application development and home networking.Read

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Day Software submitted Version 2.0 of Content Repository for JavaTM Technology API (JSR 283) which focuses on reducing the risks of proprietary vendor lock-in by improving the interoperability between content repositories and applications. The new enhancement to the standard ensures that companies can easily manage content across large-scale enterprises.Day Submits Next Version of Content

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Day Software, a provider of global content management and content infrastructure software announced a series of standardized connectors for leading legacy repositories with Documentum be the first to implement the connector. Connectors will enable enterprises to access and manage all content through a standardized API, allowing implementation of content access, search, versioning, synchronization

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Oracle recently announced the 'Oracle Portlet Factory' development tool to help organizations to build composite applications that handle data from various enterprise business applications like SAP AG, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, Siebel and Oracle E-Business Suite applications. For example, Oracle Factory includes SAP adapter, along with drag and drop functional components, and integrated portlet

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Oracle in their recent Oracle OpenWorld announced 'hot-pluggable' middleware architecture that will help Oracle applications to work within competitors portal and vice versa as long as they follow standards. Oracle middleware is architected as a suite of products which include Oracle's portal, identity management, business integration, business intelligence, management products, developer tools,

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Now you can personalize Google's Search engine page by placing your own Google style logo. Just enter the text that you require and your personalized Google Search will be ready to use. Check this outhttp://google.topmasala.com/-----------------------------------------------------------------Bixee.comGood news for Indian Job hunters, check out Bixee site that offers search across various Job

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Google has recently released beta version of its long-awaited blog search, two years after it acquired the popular Blogger technology and blog service. It is first of the three search engine giants to launch such service. Search results include all the blogs, not just the once published through Blogger. Blogger search is supported in 35 languages supporting advance features like options to

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Microsoft recently launched "Atlas" which is Microsoft'’s framework for AJAX-style web application development. Google has mastered the Ajax style of Web application development with most of its applications like Gmail, Google Suggest, Google Maps built using Ajax framework. And now Microsoft with ASP.NET Atlas (AJAX) Framework is all set to create waves in the market. Microsoft aims to ease most

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Sun Microsystem and Fatwire Software announced an agreement to provide unlimited licenses use of FatWire Spark Portal Content Management (pCM) to all the new and existing Sun Java System Portal Server customers. This include Sun Java(TM) Enterprise System (Java ES) and Sun Java Application Platform Suite subscribers. This will help customers to access range of functions from within Java System

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ElectroPost has announced integration of Skype with their .Net Content Management System. The idea is to transfer the web chats into Skype text messages. EpiServer will act as a proxy between the web chat and the Skype user, and will also include the ability to log all chat conversations for future reference and record keeping.The other day I was reading a post from Apoorv Emergence of

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FileNet, a leading Enterprise Content and Business Process Management solution provider announced the release of Web Content Manager 3.0 (WCM). WCM is part of the FileNet P8 Web Content Management suite. WCM provide capabilities to enable non-technical business users to design, create, review,manage, and publish Web content while still providing Webmasters the capability to effectively administer

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As Plumtree gets ready for its merger with BEA, it is all set to go ahead with its plan to launch new major Plumtree Portal software version 6.0. Though not much information is shared with respect to what's new in the upcoming release the news is that it will include Plumtree's broadest support to date for different system configurations.Also, BEA has hinted that it will continue developing

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The other day I was having a discussion on Ajax and one thing that stood out as a concern for using it was "security". If data is available openly as XML over HTTP, it is going to be a cake walk for smart hacker. Some of the issues raised related to security threat are: data protection protecting source code protecting web services My initial thoughts go this way:Data Protection: It is

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The beta version of Google Desktop (version 2) which was launched on Monday, has been quoted as " a real advance and a step forward over other technologies like Yahoo's Konfabulator and Apple's Widgets."It features a new "sidebar" which sits on screen displaying the user's latest emails, information from RSS feeds, photos, weather and stock reports as well as faster and more tailored access to

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Google is all set to unveil its own instant messaging platform called Google Talk. Looking at its previous releases we can expect IM to be unique among all the existing IM's. Google's presence in IM will fill the significant gap in offerings that Google has compared to other portals like MSN, Yahoo. Some reports mention that Google Talk will go beyond text-based instant messaging using a computer

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BEA today announced to acquire Plumtree Portal software. Plumtree is a Java server based Portal combining portal, content management, collaboration, and integration and search technologies in one solution. Plumtree has various product suits:The Plumtree Corporate PortalPlumtree Collaboration ServerPlumtree Content ServerPlumtree Search ServerPlumtree Studio ServerIntegration ServicesPlumtree has

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Alfresco, an Open Source Content Management framework has been named a "Trend-Setter" by KMWorld magazine. KMWorld recognized Alfresco's open source content repository for its usability, rapid rate of industry adoption and anticipated future impact. I never got a chance to explore Alfresco but Alfresco review shows that the product has lot to offer in the ECM space. Watch out this space for my

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I came across Isomorphic's SmartClient when one of the client was looking for rich web client development product. At first I didn't understand what it is all about and that really invoked lot of interest. SmartClient is basically a rich web client that provides an open DHTML/AJAX client engine, rich user interface components, and metadata-driven client-server databinding systems, for rich GUI,

Shishanknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14923636.post-1124181600484162522005-08-16T13:51:00.000+05:302005-08-16T17:48:41.613+05:30

Recently Magnolia announced v2.1 CMS suite with number of new enhancements to their existing suite including rich-text editor choices, XML based import-export, native search etc. One of the best things about Magnolia is that it is built on Java Content Repository (JSR 170) standards. I am still in process of exploring its features. One of the things that I was looking for was the workflow process

Shishanknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14923636.post-1123074933735061852005-08-03T18:23:00.000+05:302005-08-03T18:54:07.586+05:30

We all know about Google's AdSense which help website publishers of all sizes to display relevant Google ads on their websites and make money.Now its time for Yahoo to come out with something similar. Yahoo is expected to launch Contextual Ads program which will let publishers place Yahoo's contextually relevant listings on their sites and receive a share of the revenue generated by them. It will

Shishanknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14923636.post-1123046286999443532005-08-03T09:58:00.000+05:302005-08-03T13:49:52.363+05:30

RICO is an open source Java Script library which provide full Ajax support helping to add Ajax to any HTML page. It provides JavaScript object called AjaxEngine which define standard XML for Ajax response with a way to specify targeted HTML elements.I played around for sometime with RICO and the demos and can easily rate it as one of the best client-side user interface tool for Ajax I have come

Shishanknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14923636.post-1122896390118640882005-08-01T16:34:00.000+05:302005-08-01T18:31:26.266+05:30

Whenever you want to search, whether on your desktop or internet , the Search King Google is an obvious choice. That leads to question, how can I get listed with Google? How can my site be listed within first 10 searches ? etc..etc..I was reading an article about listing with Google and here is an extract:Never play tricks with Google. Do not use cloaking, doorway pages or hidden text. There has

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AJAX, the new breed of dynamic web applications is emerging pretty fast. Though AJAX is not new but has recently gained popularity due to inclusion of support for the "XMLHttpRequest" object by browsers across all the platforms. It is XMLHttpRequest Java Script object that does all the tricks.In Ajax model, a HTML page makes asynchronous call to server to fetch data in XML format which then is

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Was trying to start my blog for a pretty long time and finally I am blogging....My blog will speak about developments in Portals and Content Management Space and I hope to keep posting my comments on regular basis.Recently have been exploring AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript Technology), the new breed of dynamic web applications and soon will be posting my comments.Happy Blogging :)

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