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The actual Oracle OpenWorld opening keynote: Quinton Wall thought he went to the opening keynote, but he didn't. He went to the second keynote that happened Monday morning. The actual opening keynote took place Sunday night.
Posted by Gerald Kanapathy (gkanapathy) on November 12, 2007 at 23:49 PDT | Comments (1)  

Looking at the OpenSocial API: I don't really care about OpenSocial or Facebook's API. But I'm happy for the hype to be my vehicle for talking about the Portlet API. Are we going to support OpenSocial? Oh, I dug out good links to the ALI portlet CSP protocol docs too.
Posted by Gerald Kanapathy (gkanapathy) on November 04, 2007 at 16:09 PDT | Comments (1)  

OpenSocial. Yawn.: OpenSocial. There's precious little social about it. Apps sound fun, but are they useful? Yes, they are, but not in Facebook. But they are in enterprise apps, and they could be.
Posted by Gerald Kanapathy (gkanapathy) on November 04, 2007 at 14:11 PDT | Comments (1)  

Release Announcement: AquaLogic® Interaction WSRP Consumer 1.1: BEA AquaLogic® Interaction WSRP Consumer 1.1 has been released. BEA AquaLogic® Interaction WSRP Consumer enables you to deploy portlets on AquaLogic Interaction that conform to the WSRP portlet standard.
Posted by Gerald Kanapathy (gkanapathy) on October 19, 2007 at 14:14 PDT | Comments (0)  

Full RSS Feeds: Oh, I haven't forgetten:

Yes, a while back I mentioned how it sucks that dev2dev doesn't have a full-text RSS feeds. (Oh, for the entire blog community, because, come on, there just aren't that many posts.) . Yeah, it's bad for readers. It's also bad for writers. Thank god that somewhere in the infinite monkeys of the internet, someone will take the time to explain why. And dev2dev doesn't carry advertising.

"The mote out of thy brother's eye": Sometimes the difference between a term of art and obscurantist jargon is how close you are to a topic.
Posted by Gerald Kanapathy (gkanapathy) on September 23, 2007 at 19:12 PDT | Comments (0)  

Facebook's API and my old familiar: Looking at the Facebook API and comparing it to the ALUI API, and revelations from such.
Posted by Gerald Kanapathy (gkanapathy) on September 23, 2007 at 16:42 PDT | Comments (0)  

Platforms and Portals and Ensembles: Marc Andreessen posted an interesting piece on different kinds of Internet platforms. While BEA doesn't directly sell an Internet platform, we do make and sell stuff that someone might use to build such a platform. So how do our platform tools correspond to pmarca's taxonomy?
Posted by Gerald Kanapathy (gkanapathy) on September 23, 2007 at 14:59 PDT | Comments (0)  

Exercise for the reader: Sorry about the thin posting, but I've just been on vacation, and then catching up from vacation, and just generally busy. I took these photos at the Gartner portals conference in Las Vegas this week. Why am I posting pictures of IBM's exhibit booth here? Ah, that's for you to figure out by examining the photos. Your hint is schaddennfreude.
Posted by Gerald Kanapathy (gkanapathy) on September 19, 2007 at 19:48 PDT | Comments (1)  

Further research required: An empirical challenge to my last post: It's entertainment. A gold mine of entertainment. And it casts doubt on everything I've ever said or thought about blogs and social computing.
Posted by Gerald Kanapathy (gkanapathy) on August 10, 2007 at 00:46 PDT | Comments (0)  

Successful Blogging:

No, I'm not going to tell you how to be a successful blogger. No, I'm going to tell you how an organization can and should use blogs successfully.

Microsoft is the world's greatest blogging company. GMU is the world's greatest blogging economics department. Why can't everyone be as successful with blogs as they are? Also, billions of links. Remember Suck.com, web old-timers, one of the greatest proto-blogs ever? Well, my links aren't nearly as clever as theirs.

Web 2.0 and Org 2.0:

A little economic history, a little org theory, a great fricking boatload of opinion. Oh, and non-technical for you haters of the DNS and TCP/IP posts. I tell you what Web 2.0 apps are good for (boatload-wise). You know what? I'll tell you right now, because it's not like I'm relying on suspense to get you to read this. Or if it even matters to me if you do. So: By providing additional inputs of useful communication, Web 2.0 improves the factor productivity of information-task workers, pushing out the point at which the marginal returns to team size fall below marginal cost. In other words, they make thinking-work more productive.

Turns out this became a longish post. Why? Because. And anyway, you should have seen this thing before I edited it down. (Hmm, I wonder if I'll get kicked out of marketing for linking to that.)

Web 2.0 defined by me:

One criticism I've heard is that blogs are just some narcissistic or exhibitionist fetish. They let just anyone spout off with their own stupid uninformed opinion and set themselves up as experts and I can't believe that people are so stupid that they even start to believe this crap. That's what it said in Newsweek. I saw this 60 Minutes where they said that 99% of the things on the internet might not even be true.

Well, they're totally right on the "letting anyone with an opinion set up shop as an expert" part. And they might be right about narcissism. And even if they're right about everything else on the internet being a lie, this post is pure truth.

Oh, yes. It's about what Web 2.0 actually means. Which, it turns out, is about people on the internet putting things out there for everyone to read.

PEP: Pages & Ensemble & Pathways:

Just a short description of what the new products are, and why they're important. Isn't me posting this stuff in a blog entry instead of you reading it on some press release or email list that you're kind of too lazy to make a rule for trashing, isn't that pretty Web 2.0? Well, it is.

But that's not for this post, that's for some future post when I talk about what I mean by 2.0. This post, it's just an introduction to our PEP stuff.

TCP, UDP, Unicast, Multicast. WTF? I thought this blog was supposed to be about portal.: Boy, I bet you wish you had a full-text feed for this blog so you could just read the thing in your RSS reader, huh?
Posted by Gerald Kanapathy (gkanapathy) on July 06, 2007 at 14:56 PDT | Comments (2)  

News about me: One of the things that Web 1.x people say about blogs is something like "Blogs are just silly. I hate them. It's just a some people who haven't done anything talking about what they did that day. Why should I care what some random dude thinks?" To this I can only reply "omg mom idk my bff jill l0l"
Posted by Gerald Kanapathy (gkanapathy) on July 05, 2007 at 00:42 PDT | Comments (0)  

The Domain Name System: DNS, the Domain Name System. I bet you think you know all about it. What's to know? You get a DNS server assigned, and you send it a host name, and it sends you back the IP address of the host name, and you use that IP to send stuff to the host. Of course there's more to it than that, and today we talk about the "more" and how it pertains to the ALI portal and ALI Collab, or AL Collab or whatever it's called.
Posted by Gerald Kanapathy (gkanapathy) on July 02, 2007 at 21:22 PDT | Comments (2)  

BlogProblems: A Partial Retraction: Spectacular! Amazing! You won't believe your eyes or your own lying brain! Nothing to do with BEA technology! (Except that we're coming out with a passel of Web 2.0 gear, and RSS is Web 2.0. But this ain't about that.) Vastly overstating the awesomeness of this post! You're going to be disappointed! Seriously! Exclamations!
Posted by Gerald Kanapathy (gkanapathy) on June 28, 2007 at 22:00 PDT | Comments (1)  

BlogProblems: See? See? This is what you get in your RSS reader when you don't have a full-text feed! At least this has *something* to do with the post.
Posted by Gerald Kanapathy (gkanapathy) on June 27, 2007 at 23:52 PDT | Comments (2)  

SSL and the Portal, Part 2: Most people just think of SSL as providing encryption. It does that, but the other important thing it provides is authentication. It doesn't matter to most people how the encryption works (except inasmuch that it actually works to provide a secure connection) but it does matter how the authentication works, because it's easy for it to trip you up and cause problems. Also, I came back. I'll try to stick around.
Posted by Gerald Kanapathy (gkanapathy) on June 27, 2007 at 18:03 PDT | Comments (0)  

SSL and the Portal, Part 1: A lot of Plumtree (AquaLogic User Interaction [this would be more straightforward if the word "portal" were in the name]) customers deploy their portals with SSL for security. If you're thinking that you might someday, whether you already have a (non-SSL) portal or not, there are a few things you should know about SSL in general, and about how it works with the Portal. This is part 1, about SSL performance and SSL accelerators.
Posted by Gerald Kanapathy (gkanapathy) on April 14, 2006 at 15:56 PDT | Comments (2)  

Promotion to Production: Change control, Migration, Promote-to-Production: How we do it in the portal, and maybe in SOA applications in general.
Posted by Gerald Kanapathy (gkanapathy) on March 22, 2006 at 09:01 PDT | Comments (1)  

How Plumtree and Fuego fit: I left a comment on another blog here about how BID fits into the BEA SOA stack.
Posted by Gerald Kanapathy (gkanapathy) on March 06, 2006 at 09:08 PDT | Comments (0)  

Where can I find more?: More information about AquaLogic Interaction/Plumtree. Where can I find the product and developer center for it?
Posted by Gerald Kanapathy (gkanapathy) on March 04, 2006 at 16:54 PDT | Comments (0)  

Active Directory AWS Conversions: If you have users in your portal that were imported from an NT or Active Directory domain with anything besides a remote Active Directory AWS (now Active Directory Identity Service), and you need to start using the AD Identity Service, you're going to have to take some special steps to migrate the users, groups and authentication source.
Posted by Gerald Kanapathy (gkanapathy) on March 04, 2006 at 16:27 PDT | Comments (0)  

Plumtree, it's called what now?:
Posted by Gerald Kanapathy (gkanapathy) on February 28, 2006 at 14:59 PDT | Comments (5)  

Intro: What I'm writing about:
Posted by Gerald Kanapathy (gkanapathy) on February 28, 2006 at 14:46 PDT | Comments (0)