Stuart Crump | Stuart Crump http://www.crump.co.uk Riding is living, everything else is just standing still. Tue, 14 May 2013 15:23:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 IBM Portal 8 beta 2 available now! http://www.crump.co.uk/2011/10/03/ibm-portal-8-beta-2-available-now/ http://www.crump.co.uk/2011/10/03/ibm-portal-8-beta-2-available-now/#comments Mon, 03 Oct 2011 17:55:02 +0000 Stuart http://www.crump.co.uk/?p=443 Really excited to hear IBM has released the second beta of IBM Portal 8 (IBM Customer Experience Suite, IBM WebSphere Portal and IBM Web Content Manager).  The is great news as it introduces a wealth of enhanced capabilities, and product features.  Here’s the links to the readme and documentation.

Readme
http://www.lotus.com/ldd/portalwiki.nsf/dx/Beta_readme

IBM WebSphere Portal Beta Product Documentation
http://www.lotus.com/ldd/portalwiki.nsf/xpViewCategories.xsp?lookupName=IBM%20WebSphere%20Portal%20Beta%20Product%20Documentation

IBM Web Content Manager Beta Product Documentation
http://www.lotus.com/ldd/portalwiki.nsf/xpViewCategories.xsp?lookupName=IBM%20Web%20Content%20Manager%20Beta%20Product%20Documentation

What’s New in this Beta 1 code drop.

Managed pages

  • New user-friendly interface to create and manage portal pages together with other web content.
  • New page draft and approval process lets you preview and approve changes to pages before you publish them.

Site area templates

  • Create site area templates that define the authoring settings, such as design of the form, elements and fields on a form and default values.
  • Restrict authoring templates usage. For example, use site area templates to only allow “news” items to be created within a “news” site area of a web site.

Enhanced projects

  • Add users as approvers for a project and send a project through a review state before publishing.

Simplified business process management

  • Users access relevant tasks for multiple business process management solutions from a single user interface, the Unified Task List portlet.
  • Integrate your site with several Process Management solutions.

Enhanced SAP integration

  • Support for the new IBM WebSphere Portal Integrator for SAP lets you expose elements from SAP Netweaver Portal directly into WebSphere Portal.

IBM Installation Manager

  • Manage the software life cycle with a single tool: install, update, rollback, modify and uninstall.
  • Faster installation performance and better integration with other IBM products.

Integration with external identity providers

  • Configure your WebSphere Portal installation to allow external Identity Providers, such as Google and Yahoo, to authenticate users.
  • You can also configure WebSphere Portal to allow registered users to define and use their Facebook credentials to sign on.

Social Business in Context

  • New Community Page support lets you more readily scope and place IBM Connections portlets in the right Portal and WCM context
  • IBM Connections Community Pages portlets are available for Profiles and Blogs.
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The whitepaper was written by Walter Haenel who is the Lead Architect for Operations and Deployment for WebSphere Portal at IBM.

 

Cloning an IBM WebSphere Portal V7 installation

 

Walter Haenel, Lead Architect for Operations and Deployment for WebSphere Portal, IBM

Summary: Learn how to clone an installation of IBM WebSphere Portal version 7.0 that has been configured for specific deployment needs. This white paper is intended for portal administrators who want to build a standardized installation of WebSphere Portal within their organization and use it as a template from which to mass-produce additional pre-installed and pre-configured portals.

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Readme
http://www.lotus.com/ldd/portalwiki.nsf/dx/Beta_readme

IBM WebSphere Portal Beta Product Documentation
http://www.lotus.com/ldd/portalwiki.nsf/xpViewCategories.xsp?lookupName=IBM%20WebSphere%20Portal%20Beta%20Product%20Documentation

IBM Web Content Manager Beta Product Documentation
http://www.lotus.com/ldd/portalwiki.nsf/xpViewCategories.xsp?lookupName=IBM%20Web%20Content%20Manager%20Beta%20Product%20Documentation

What’s New in this Beta 1 code drop.

  • Web Analytics
    • More flexible options to tag pages, portlets or web content and measure their usefulness through Campaign and Custom tags.
    • New user-friendly overlay statistics provide an in-line view to track effectiveness of a web property.
  • Social Business in Context
    • New Community Page support lets you more readily scope and place IBM Connections portlets in the right Portal and WCM context.
    • A consistent tagging and rating experience between WebSphere Portal, Web Content Manager, and IBM Connections.
    • OpenID Authentication lets portal users authenticate with public social network credentials, such as a Facebook ID, Google ID or Yahoo ID.
  • Rich Web Content Management
    • Create WCM pages and content with point-and-click simplicity with the new Content Templating user interface.
    • Integrate with ECM and other systems through Web Content Manager support for the CMIS standard.
  • Search Optimization
    • Optimize external search for Web content rendered through WebSphere Portal.

In addition the Australian IBM WCM development labs have released a sneak preview of the New WCM Authoring experience in a YouTube video:

Enhanced Portal / WCM 8 Authoring UI

 

 

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PCB of the device with a megapixel camera

I hope this appears real soon, it’s a superb little device that connects your USB keyboard / mouse to your TV via a HDMI port, sort of C64 for 2011 :)   best of all it run Ubuntu!  No mention of being connected to the Internet but on the foundation website it shows that it’s extendible to other components like cameras.

More kids learning to program from an early age with a device like this is a good thing for the UK economy.

 

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Mifi Dongle

I’ve had 3G access via a PCMCIA cards, and USB sticks, all with problems mostly constrained to the terrible connection software supplied.  With the MIFI device there’s no need for any software as it just uses a browser for admin access, and wifi for connectivity – horah!  Probably made more use of 3G connectivity more in the last month than in the last 3 years.

The device has been faultless until Friday when in a flurry of configuration for a demonstration I believe I might have managed to configure it via the Admin interface to either have NO IP address, or NO Default Gateway! stupid I know, A of me not checking, and B of the UI not error checking.

No matter what tricks I or three of my froleagues could conjure up would allow me to get an IP address I could access it via. If this happens to you find the RESET button inside the case to the left of the ON button, using a paper clip hold it pressed in for 5 seconds and it will reset.

Reset Location for 3 MiFi

This wont remove and hacks or unlocking you’ve done, but will set it back to the SSID and Wireless Key listed inside the case.  You will also need to set a new Admin password (don’t leave it as default Admin), and the profile for connecting to your provider (UN, PWD and APN).

Hope this helps anyone stuck like me, or just a reminder for me!

Enjoy.

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Tonight (Tuesday 15th, 2011) I stumbled upon a site (from my nephew), it had no fewer than 19 embedded in the page! quite a few, and what do they all do..  The page is a good read if your interested, all about the Sultan of Brunei’s supercars left to rot.

So now this has become a little game for me, I’m on the hunt for the largest number of trackers on a single web page, think 19 might be quite hard to beat.

 

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This is really excellent news, the team behind this solution offering has been working very hard to bring this to the Greenhouse Catalog.  If you’re using IBM WCM and require a multilingual solution then you should investigate this.

The IBM Lotus Web Content Management Multilingual Solution (MLS) offering comprises a set of supported extensions to IBM Lotus Web Content Management (WCM) that make it easier to build, maintain and deliver WCM sites in multiple languages.  The MLS offering also includes a whitepaper, “Multilingual Site Management with Lotus Web Content Management”, that describes the framework for managing a multilingual site, the deployment and configuration of the extensions, and examples of their use.

The MLS offering is designed to work specifically in conjunction with IBM Lotus Web Content Management Version 7.0 only.
The set of extensions consist of the following:

  • An Authoring Plug-in (aka Custom Fields) to display information about associated language translations;
  • A number of Workflow Synchronization Plug-ins (aka Custom Workflow Actions) to automate the creation of translated documents and handle publishing, expiry and delete synchronization of those documents;
  • A number of Rendering Plug-ins (aka LRP Context Processor and Servlet JSPs) to enable end-users to see content in the right language and allow switching between languages;
  • A Library Copy Portlet to make it easier to deploy new translated versions of existing sites.

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There are only 10 v1000 ever produced, if you want to know more about these special bikes and John Britten then Wikipedia has an entry. Sadly the Britten website isn’t updated any more.

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Working at IBM I have the pleasure of using Lotus Notes 8.5 which has a great feature called Calendars Overlays. So added to my Calendar, importantly “not” imported into it are all the 2011 bike autojumble dates, alongside others including Local Weather, TripIt Travel Plans, F1 Calendar and Bank Holidays.

The notesiscool.com website does a good job of explaining more about this feature so I won’t here.  Just enjoy the Autojumble iCAL feed if you like.

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