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Do you look at a lot of log files during the course of a day? Are you sick of closing and reopening files in NotePad and EditPlus to see the changes reflected in those files? Do you wish there was an easy way to see things in log files that you care about? If so, [...]

There are two major issues with the 6.0-6.1MP1 upgrade path that I encountered that you need to be aware of. I don’t know if these issues happen all the time, but it happened to me enough and on a variety of different environments that I thought it would be worth passing along. One of these [...]

Wow. This was going to be a post about the exceptional ALUI portal add-on called LiquidSkin, developed by BID Services. It’s not a diagnostic tool, but still fits into the theme of the “Cool Tools” feature by making administrators’ jobs easier by greatly simplifying the creation of rich portal navigation schemes. For example, this interface [...]

This is an easy one: in general, you should turn off directory browsing on your image servers. This is pretty easy to do in IIS (and is similarly easy with Java app servers); just uncheck the “Directory browsing” checkbox: If your image server only contains standard default images, this usually isn’t that big of a [...]

This one’s part user feature and part administrator trick. If your users like getting notifications in ALUI Collaboration Server, but feel like they’re getting too many of them, point them to “My Accounts”->”Collaboration Settings”->”Subscriptions”: Unchecking the “Immediate” box and checking the “Summary” box will cause Collab Notification Server to send daily summaries rather than individual [...]

If you’ve been living under a rock for the past 6 months or so, perhaps you haven’t heard of PEP, Bea’s Web 2.0 products (Pages, Ensemble, and Pathways). A lot has already been written about these products – see Bea’s “En.terpri.se” blog site or this introduction by Bea’s own Gerald Kanapathy, so I won’t get [...]

If you work with distributed environments like the ALUI portal even a little bit, chances are you’re constantly shuffling files from one place to another or comparing the contents of different folders. For years now I’ve relied on this little gem called Beyond Compare. It’s inexpensive shareware and worth every penny. At its core, it’s [...]