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Scripting old-style imports using CatalogMover’s command line
May 10, 2013 —
For over a decade, WebCenter Sites (FutureTense Content Server, OpenMarket Content Server, FatWire Content Server, etc.) used a text-based import format exclusively for bulk content import and export. The format was HTML-based and essentially exported a database table into a HTML table. Files were written to disk in folders alongside the HTML file. A mini →
‘Varnish’ Your Drupal Setup
March 19, 2013 —
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 →
Categories: Cool Tools
Simulating Data with the Splunk Event Generator
February 22, 2013 —
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 →
Passwords: Sharks Can Smell a Breach a Mile Away
February 5, 2013 —
2013 is not shaping up to be a banner year for Internet security. 2012 saw data breaches like 6.5 million LinkedIn password hashes leaked, 420,000 member accounts from social network Formspring, Yahoo! Voices more than 400,000 usernames and passwords, 1.5 million passwords from the online dating site eHarmony. Twitter is the latest system to suffer →
Categories: Best Practices, Cool Tools
WebLogic + Splunk = Splunk for Oracle WebLogic Server
January 29, 2013 —
As many of you know, from our website and blogs, we Function1-ers provide world-class consulting services for a few Oracle enterprise products as well as Splunk. Having this unique blend of experience on the Function1 team, we often try to experiment with new ideas that would be helpful to both sets of clients. One such →
Categories: Cool Tools, Operational Intelligence
WebCenter Sites CSDT tip: Recommended Order of @ALL_ASSETS for Error-free Imports
January 18, 2013 —
As anyone who has worked with Oracle WebCenter Sites “Content Server Development Tools” (CSDT) already knows, the import process can get a little “tricky”, especially when trying to import “@ALL_ASSETS”. Regardless if you’re operating from the command line or via Eclipse’s CSDT plug-in, there are inevitable errors that occur because of the complexity of certain →
Accessing a Windows share from Linux
December 17, 2012 —
So I recently started working on a new WebCenter Sites project and found myself needing to run some *nix shell scripts locally, but unfortunately for me I do my Java development on a Windows 7 machine. Blasphemous I know. Anyhow I happened to have a Linux VM sitting around that I could use to run →
Categories: Cool Tools
How to use Vanity URLs in the GSF with WebCenter Sites
November 19, 2012 —
WebCenter Sites does not support vanity URLs without customization. The GSF provides a great vanity URL package that is flexible and easy to use, and this post will describe how to set it up. Background First, a little background. Native URLs in WebCenter Sites all have to include a query string parameter called “pagename“. If →
How to install both GSF and CSDT in WebCenter Sites
November 14, 2012 —
So you’re building a new website in WebCenter Sites and you’ve decided to use CSDT (Content Server Developer Tools) and GSF (GST Site Foundation) to help make the development process as efficient as possible. The steps for installing GSF are quite simple. Copy a few files, click a few links, and you’re done. Setting up →
What is this whole GST Site Foundation thing?
October 26, 2012 —
You’ve heard about it… the GST Site Foundation. Maybe you’ve heard of it as the “GSF”. But what is it? The GSF is a set of core architectural patterns and tools that support building websites with WebCenter Sites. Think WebCenter Sites on Rails. So why does it exist? Well, WebCenter Sites provides very flexible and →