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Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is an open-source web development toolkit that facilitates building rich, Javascript-based applications entirely through Java coding. It is very useful in speeding up complex application development, as well as in multi-developer projects where Java’s static typing enforces convention across the board. Function1 has employed GWT in the development of its product [...]

It was brought to my attention over drinks a few weeks ago that not everybody appreciates insanely long, rambling blog posts.  So here’s one that’s short and sweet relatively short: Consider putting information in a graph when you’re trying to make sense of lot’s of data. Graphs are a wonderful thing, and with the continuing evolution [...]

Hey all! Over the last few months, I’ve had 2 customers run into 2 separate limitations with the Oracle Web Center Interaction(WCI) product, namely in version 6.1 MP1.  The first of the two cases I had run into previously, so that prompted the idea for this post to share and build a running list of [...]

For the past few years, researchers have been perplexed about the causes behind the increased rate of hair loss in ALUI portal administrators. So, a team from Function1 took on the task of tracking these subjects for a few months and recorded the findings. One of the interesting things discovered was that the cause was [...]

Howdy all.  With the holiday season upon us and everyone getting inundated with offers of bargain flat screen TVs at your favorite big box store and 10 spatulas for the price of 9 down at Spatula City, your friends at Function1 hope you’ll save some of your hard-earned budget with this cost-saving tip:  Make your software purchases at the [...]

It’s been a while since we touched on AJAX, but a question came up recently about it an I thought it might be good to review. AJAX, or “Asynchronous JavaScript and XML”, is a way for portlet developers to create rich Web Applications that don’t require the entire browser page to refresh to update content.  [...]

Oops – looks like this one slipped past QA:  Collab 4.5 ships with “INFO” set as the logging threshold, which isn’t that much of a problem in and of itself (aside from giant log files being generated).  But when INFO is turned on, Collab actually records the UNENCRYPTED password to the ptcollab\4.5\settings\logs\wrapper.log file:

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 [...]