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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Who says you can’t teach an old elephant new tricks?  In an effort to offer the best portal services available, Function1 has been spending a lot of time with Microsoft Office SharePoint server. Microsoft is a traditional market leader and its most recent incarnation of SharePoint has the technology baked-in to live up to the [...]

Howdy all.  It’s been a long week, so this one is short and sweet.  No witty anecdotes, no flowery prose and mixed metaphors, and minimal run-on sentences.  Just the facts before I shut down my machine for a bit.
Running WCI on Windows 2008 isn’t officially supported, but it’s kind of ridiculous to have to run [...]

Living in the DC area, you get used to sharing a city with the President. You see his motorcade driving down Connecticut Ave., he’s grabbing a half smoke at Ben’s Chili Bowl, your friend saw him on a random Starbucks visit.  In short, you just get used to him being around.

So it wasn’t any big deal for this [...]