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FWIW, I suggested we change “Cool Tools” to “Kewl Tewls” to capture the strong ALI tween demographic, but I got over-ruled.  I guess the kids these days are too busy playing with their Twitters and their Facebooks to care about our old friend ALI.  Maybe if BEA would just rename “Aqualogic User Interaction” to something a little more Web 2.0, [...]

Welcome Brian Hak to the Function1 team! Brian joins us with years of ALUI experience; he’s the kind of guy that’s not content to just email alisupport@bea.com until he’s decompiled the code, completely diagnosed the problem, and is simply reporting the exact line the bug is on. Take his first blog post:  most people would [...]

Last week started off like Christmas in April for me.  I had a week away from customers to play around with my brand new laptop and ALI 6.5.  Sadly, after about 4 hours of fighting with Vista and the ALI 6.5 installer, the excitement of unwrapping presents faded, and my afternoon turned into one of [...]

You know how you always ignore all those warnings and errors in PTSpy?  Or how you don’t bother looking at the /ptlogging/logs/portal/portalserver-log.spy file because it’s just filled with so many benign errors that you don’t care about ‘em any more? The problem with this, of course, is that there may be “real” errors getting lost in [...]

The User Profile Page has always been available in the portal, but it’s always kind of taken a back-seat to My Pages, Communities, and the Knowledge Directory – the only way you’d see it is if you searched for a user and clicked on the user, or clicked on “My Account” and then “View User [...]

Here’s a quick and very welcome feature – I’ve alluded to it before (Drag ‘n’ Drop Portlets), but every Community Page and My Page has a set of context-sensitive one-click action links at the top. Remember how many links it used to take to create a new page? Now, if you have privileges, you can [...]

I’ve done a couple of “back-fills” from production environments to development environments recently, and let me tell you, they’re a real pain.  Inevitably, everything ends up getting messed up when you do a database port from one environment to the next – Search, Automation, Knowledge Directory, Remote Servers, and so on. One thing that I [...]

Like virtually all other end-user visible pieces, the Knowledge Directory has undergone a radical transformation. Documents are shown with their titles, description, and modified date. New to the KD is the ability to sort, one-click access to the document link, document type filtering, ability to create folders in browse mode, and a completely revamped look [...]