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So you know Dev2Dev blogs are being decommissioned, but there really is a treasure trove of information out there, and individual bloggers are scrambling to repost their articles elsewhere. Two of the top Plumtree/Aqualogic/ALI bloggers out there are Ross Brodbeck (new blog site here) and Fabien Sanglier (new RSS blog feed here), and a tip [...]

In case you haven’t heard, we’ve got a developing product line at Function1.
Next in our showcase is Reader, our RSS reader portlet.  Unlike the out of the box RSS functionality in the Oracle/ALI/ALUI/Plumtree portal, which restricts the number of feeds available, has a very “Web 1.0 feel”, and doesn’t flag articles as read for individuals, [...]

Now that Oracle’s running the AquaLogic show, they wasted no time killing the $300 million AquaLogic brand, “reshuffling the BEA deck“, and removing the onerous BEA license key process.
So what does this mean for the future of the Plumtree/AquaLogic product line?  Will it survive the reshuffle?  What’s Oracle’s road map for future development?  Well, those answers [...]

Yeah, this one is only marginally useful, can only be considered a “Cool Tool” in the broadest sense of the title, and not nearly as fun of an Easter Egg as we’ve posted in the past, but it’s neat to check out JavaScript internals of the portal nonetheless.
Basically, open up your portal in FireFox (this doesn’t [...]

In Analytics, there aren’t many options to filter the reports well – some reports allow filtering on a user property, some on an auth source, and some on communities.
It’s the latter one that I found myself needing when I wanted to create Community Analytics Reports, filtered on a certain set of communities (we’re using lots [...]

We’ve got a handful of recurring themes on this blog, but here’s another one for you:  a showcase of our product line.
As you may know, Function1 offers consulting services to ALI, ALBPM, and Enterprise Social Networking services.  But we also write best-in-class products:  tools you may have desperately needed, maybe without even knowing it (trust me, [...]

For those of you unaware, Dev2Dev is meeting a grisly fate:  it won’t be with us much longer (apparently all content except for the blogs up there will be migrated to the Oracle Mother Ship).  No doubt our friends at Oracle will come up with an alternative way for employees to speak their minds, but [...]

Well, Oracle’s gift keeps givin’:  First, they published unlimited license keys for all ALUI products, and now, they’ve release maintenance packs for everything with all the licensing stripped out completely!
Go Oracle!
 
Update June 9, 2008: Sorry ladies and gents, I just spent the day trying to upgrade our dev environment here.  After downloading hundreds of megabytes [...]

My love for e-licensing at BEA, or lack thereof, was no secret.  I was mostly appalled as an employee when I was working at client sites – who completely trusted me with administrative access to their servers – and tried to get a license key.  Often this process took days, and occasionally took weeks.  In [...]

Here’s a quick tip for ya – we’ve talked about using the audit log manager to track and archive events, but if you’re getting the following error:
JobShell: Exception occurred when processing operation n:nnn:  Error in function PTAuditManager.DiscardOldAuditMsgs (lAuditTypeMask == -1, dtCutoffMsgTime == nnn)
… the likely cause is an extraneous file in your archive destination, which [...]