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Browser and wiki workflow independence with Liferay the open source “SharePoint”

July 4th, 2009; today is the US independence day. This has put me in a reflective mood. As I was thinking about the current projects that I’m working on, I thought about this…


SharePoint 2007 is a great improvement over its ancestors: SharePoint 2003 and SharePoint 2001. The capabilities in document management make the old shared file systems obsolete. This is especially true for Microsoft Office products that integrate with SharePoint. I’m waiting for SharePoint 2010 to hopefully resolve some of the issues that the blog and wiki tools have. In the meantime, we have wiki and blog requirements that need to be met. In our search for a top flight wiki that was easy to learn and use by users; we discovered Liferay. continue reading » »

Updating a Java web publishing application to communite via SSL to a site that uses a Go Daddy certificate

At my company we have an online portal where the content is published from an java application over an ssl connection. For several years the online portal used SSL certificates from Verisign, however, this year in order to save some $$$ we decided to switch all of our certificates to Go Daddy. It took a few additional steps this year to make the java publishing application trust the SSL certificate from the online portal

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