Martin Notes

So, here I am in Berlin at an IBM Websphere Portal technical conference. I’ve absolutely zero experience and knowledge about IBM portal, but I’m learning fast now. My notes so far (yes, they are sketchy):

V04
systemic analysis of competition:
- M$, Oracle, SAP, jboss, liferay, exo, jetspeed
? mitigate business risk? trend?

Campaign management

(down) Admin->footprint, site analysis
Performance -> IBM throughput is the highest?
TCO rises for competition, IBM stays more or less equal

WSP can consume sharepoint func/data

(Oracle portal dies?)

WSP can consume SAP func/data

Liferay: departmental focus
OpenSource: IT dept. use it to extend their own ability
func is low, TCO is high, risk is high

B01
Permissions: locks: lock a part of the page
Attribute based admin: business rules for visibility
–> can also instantiate pages
WSP: exposes a lot of api methods as rest services
semantic tags
ajax proxy –> proxy ajax call to other sites through the portal
Situational applications (and the long tail)
possibility: move situational apps into the enterprise env. (not yet finished, next months)
virtual portals –> like desktops/teamsites
create through a wizard
edit thought customization GUI
accelerators: working example implementations

V01
Skipped

D13 – Mainsoft
Goal: give access to sharepoint through WSP, NOT give edit capabilities
–> meaning: sharepoint will still be the point for editing

challenges: functionality, content, security
solution 1: expose sharepoint lists in WSP
solution 2: SP SDK to build composite apps across .NET and Java

Security integration: credential vault, 1 user account, kerberos
Chose: direct link between office and sharepoint OR link through WSP
–> through WSP you lose the sharepoint integration
–> it becomes readonly (download)

Create java portlets from .Net –> use Visual Studio, compile (using the Mainsoft compiler) from .Net to Java –> delivers .war file

Web 2.0 mashup
share content and knowledge
spaces
find colleges
Find and contact experts

(Quickr = sharepoint)
Quickr is build on top of WSP
-> Lists, livetext, …

Lotus connections
-> social networks for business
profiles, communities, blogs, dogear (bookmarks), activities, homepage

Lotus Mashup
-> business/enterprise mashup
create mashups, list mashups in a directory (hub)

Personal conference, IBM, WebSphere portal

How could I have missed this? I must have been too busy at work or something. Intrepid Ibex is in beta, download here: http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/intrepid/beta

Linux, Ubuntu beta, intrepid ibex, release

I’m not the photo managing kind of guy. I mostly keep my pictures in directories named after the event the photos are from. Just suppose that I would like to manage my photos then I’d use Google Picasa. Google managed to update their Linux version to the same level as the Windows version.

To install, just add the Google repository to you software sources: http://www.google.com/linuxrepositories/index.html

And open synaptic to install picasa.

Linux, Ubuntu Google Picassa, review

I’ve found an article that gives some tips how you can improve the speed of your desktop ubuntu. Usually these tips can break your system, actually some of these tips also can. I’ve applied the following and it works fine. My system feels a bit faster.

1. Prelink

sudo apt-get -y install prelink

Change a line inside the configuration file /etc/default/prelink from

PRELINKING=unknown

to

PRELINKING=yes

We will do our first prelinking by executing following command

sudo /etc/cron.daily/prelink

2. Preload

sudo apt-get -y install preload

3. Concurrency

sudo vim /etc/init.d/rc

and find the line CONCURRENCY=none and change it to: CONCURRENCY=shell

Linux, Ubuntu Ubuntu