Setting up a Simple Workflow in Oracle WebCenter Sites

Posted by Somen De on March 26, 2013 Web Experience Management, Best Practices Best Practices, Content Management Systems, FatWire

Welcome fellow enthusiasts of Oracle WebCenter Sites, to an introductory blog about how to set up a simple workflow!  As we all know, workflow is an integral aspect of any web content management system, and thus creating an efficient workflow is paramount to the overall success of the system and it’s business owners.

The particular workflow we will design is modest yet effective.

There are 2 main Roles of users:

ContentAuthor – creates/edits content ContentApprover – approves content for publishing

Go ahead and create these 2 Roles, and also make sure to have users...

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'Varnish' Your Drupal Setup

Posted by Hani Atalla on March 19, 2013 Cool Tools, Drupal Caching, Drupal, Varnish

For every high performance website that gets hammered by a decent traffic volume, some sort of caching mechanism is essential and Drupal is no exception.  The Drupal caching approach, to a great extent, depends upon the type of visitors who frequent the website and this suggests different Drupal specific caching techniques depending upon the type of visitors to the website; for instance if the predominant visitors to the website are authenticated users versus unauthenticated.  So in this blog, I’d like to discuss Varnish as a caching option for...

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Nonimmigrant Visa and Status Concepts - Part I

Posted by Vidhya Amirthalingam on March 12, 2013 Best Practices Legal

As the tech field becomes more and more innovative, the United States will continue to be a melting pot for immigrants and non-immigrants to share their knowledge, skills and abilities. Prior to joining Function1 , I practiced immigration law at a small law firm where most of the firm’s clients were small to large employers seeking to recruit and/or retain foreign nationals in one of their offices in the U.S. Of these employers, many were small information technology companies. Accordingly, I thought it may be of interest to employers and employees alike to write a series of posts on...

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Simulating Data with the Splunk Event Generator

Posted by Kevin Chu on February 22, 2013 Operational Intelligence, Cool Tools, Development Cool Tools, Data Inputs, Development

While installing a new app to your Splunk search head can usually be considered a rather benign action, sometimes the introduction of a TA on your forwarders and indexers requires more attention.  This is commonly the case, especially if your production environment is guarded by change control.   The problem is that without the data generated by those inputs your newly installed app may not display properly, and without seeing your new app’s dashboards populated with data, you may not be able to conclude how useful it really is.  I suppose deploying a fully mirrored “dev” environment to...

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Create a Simple 'Contact Us' Form with GSF

Posted by David Chesebro on February 15, 2013 Web Experience Management, Best Practices, Development FatWire, GSF, Oracle WebCenter Sites

If you're familiar with the GSF, then you already know how helpful it is for developing basic JSP Templates and how it lets you do the same work as before, except with a lot fewer lines of code. But what about another type of page that most sites need? I am, of course, talking about the Contact Us form page. The GSF 11.x makes it easy to add your own custom form processing logic without having to write your own Java controller from scratch. In a few easy steps, your Contact Us form page...

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