Content-as-a-Service: An Architecture for Evolution

The one constant in technology is evolution. The CMS space is no exception. With the growth of delivery channels, cloud technologies, microservices architecture, and the progression of web rendering technologies Content-as-a-Service (or CaaS)...

Growing your Splunk Deployment

Intro

Growth.  It's important in so many aspects of our lives; from our careers, health, and relationships.  The famed motivational, self-help guru Tony Robbins says that beyond our basic needs, we need growth and giving back in order to truly be fulfilled.  In addition to adding to ourselves, sometimes growth requires us to rebuild a portion of ourselves.  Well, Splunk is no different.  In order for it to keep it's self-esteem high, it also needs to grow. In this blog post I wanted to cover a process to expand the number of indexers in an existing Splunk deployment while also...


Energy - A New Vertical Market for Drupal

During the Fall of 2014 Function1 teamed with the BACnet Group – Drupal, Acquia, and Commissioning & Green Building Solutions, Inc. (CxGBS®)  to submit a response to the GSA RFI Green Proving Ground program.  It required a “Title” so we called it “Open Energy - A New Paradigm for Energy Dashboards”. The GSA program leverages its real estate portfolio to evaluate innovative sustainable building technologies...


How to use Vanity URLs in the GSF with WebCenter Sites

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 the page is rendering an asset, "c" and "cid" are also included, and recently, other parameters like "childpagename" have crept into the standard set of parameters that are found in URLs.  This simply doesn't cut...


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