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The back story
I recently had the misfortune of being the victim of theft. As a frequent traveller, I keep many of my most important items (technology, travel documents, iPhone charger, breath mints) close at hand in a single bag. At a moments notice I can be out the door and on a plane to help my [...]

I’m randomly up early on a Saturday morning and decided to use the time to put out this week’s belated blog post.  There are a bunch of things I probably should be writing about (including the WCI->Sharepoint migration tool we’re building…look for more info soon), but it’s before 8 AM on a Saturday, and I’m [...]

Error accessing database! Check your config files and verify that your database is correctly scripted.
It’s 2 AM, and these are not exactly the calm and soothing words you want to be seeing from PTSpy after a clean, fresh  install of your WCI portal. It is frustrating, it is alarming, and above all else, did I [...]

Howdy all. This post is a bit late in coming, but exciting for me to share none-the-less. Function1 is pleased to announce its acquisition of Spheric Technologies. I could blabber on about what this means to us, our customers, and our loyal blog readers, but I’ll spare you all the pages of [...]

Since the age of 12 or so, I’ve had an on-going love affair with music. You know that scene in Almost Famous where William is going through the record collection his sister left him and is just blown away by the realization that all this music exists?

Yeah, I had one of those moments, except [...]

Hello Everybody…so this is my first post of a multi-part series of topics covering terms that are often misused or generally confusing. There are a number of topics I want to cover at a general 101 level before looking at each in more detail during a 202 series.

So without further a dieu, those of you [...]

Recently, one of our customers asked us to help them improve the search experience for their 6.5 portal users, and before I could even think about the problem, the first thing that popped in my mind was this:

A few weeks ago I wrote about reasons why you might want to invest some time in learning and using maven: “Everything maven Part I”. Now it’s time to roll up our sleeves and get down into guts of maven. In this article, I’ll describe how you can use Maven to build and deploy a [...]

Look, I think we can all agree that The Godfather III sucked, and was a black mark on an otherwise amazing trilogy. The one (and probably only) highlight of the movie was Pacino giving us the sound-bite, “Just when I thought I was out, The pull me back in!”. And so we welcome [...]

If Aqualogic PT Tags were a character on MTVs Real World, it would surely be the difficult to understand, moody, and unpredictable one. Part of the misunderstanding comes from the cryptic tag library documentation and general lack of real world examples.
PT Tags give you the ability to use out-of-the-box coding logic within simple HTML pages. With a little [...]