Once the development team have been given the directive “thou shalt use WebSphere Portal” where does that leave them in terms of managing the builds and releases of the Portal artifacts.  I managed to find a really useful presentation that I used to help facilitate a discussion on this topic. Release Management for WebSphere Portal [...]

Question What’s new in WebSphere Application Server v7.0? Answer A short presentation. Websphere Application Server v7 View more presentations from Chris Sparshott.

WebSphere Application Server V7.0 expands on previous versions by delivering complete Java™ EE 5 support and certification, Web services enhancements, and Enterprise Java Beans (EJB) 3.0 and Web 2.0 Feature Pack support, plus a range of features that can help you: WebSphere Application Server V7.0 expands on previous versions by delivering complete Java™ EE 5 support [...]

Question: Where can I find documentation to help tune IBM WebSphere Portal and Lotus Web Content Management for improved performance? Answer: WebSphere Portal and Lotus Web Content Management performance tuning guides and supplemental content

This is a great demo of WebSphere Portal. The demo runs through a bunch of cool features such as Livetext, mutimedia content, integration with external sociual networking sites, personlaisation and customization. I just wish my mobile phone provider provided the same level of service – ho hum. Live text multimedia content single sign on with [...]

I stumbled upon this presentation from Sowre an IBM Business Partner.  They have a lot of customers so I thought it would be useful to share this with the wider community. All the examples are screen shots of implementations. The original PDF can be found here. I uploaded to slideshare as a means of sharing. [...]

How to create an iWidget in WebSphere sMash to be used in Lotus Mashup Centre.

At the IMPACT conference this year there was a session on Web Analytics.  It provides an overview of the metrics avaialble in portal and a couple of products Omniture, Core Metrics and Webtrends. Integrating IBM Web Sphere Portal With Web Analytic Hosted And Non Hosted Sites V1 R8 View more Microsoft Word documents from chrissparshott.

You can run development instances of WebSphere Portal and WCM for free on Amazon EC2. (You have to pay for access to Amazon EC2). There is a video form “IBMCloud”on YouTube that goes through the steps you need to follow to set this up. You can also run production images (AMIs)of WebSphere Portal and WCM [...]

I had a question regarding WebSphere Portal security the other day which I thought I would share as my answer tries to explain the basics. Customer Question: The services that we are seeking about would fall into two categories: 1. Services that are physically deployed within the Portal (as portlets attached to portlet pages) 2. [...]