Archive for the 'Portals' Category

uP3 Day 6: More Layouts & GAPS

Friday, December 15th, 2006

Published lots of portlets… edited lots of data.xml… really need a publishing tool. Faizan’s been struggling all day without to much traction working on getting GAPS working - looks like some kinks between the updated PersonDirectory code and changes Dan’s been making on GAPS as the API evolves. I saw he posted last night [...]

uP3 Day 5: More Person Directory & Data.xml Channel Publishing

Friday, December 15th, 2006

Faizan’s PersonDirectory changes didn’t seem to take on my machine — not sure why, maybe the UserAttributesPortlet got patched, and I don’t have the most current version? I think he started looking at GAPS at home, but was running into some problems.

I’m still looking at migrating our template user into the portal framework. For this [...]

uP3 Day 4: PersonDirectory & Portlet Publishing

Tuesday, December 12th, 2006

Faizan got PersonDirectory working — after several updates and IRC exchanges with Eric. So uP3 now hits Rutgers LDAP to retrieve a mapping of our person attributes. Hard to test since the Portlet spec makes you explicitly declare the user attributes a portlet recieves. Probably privacy friendly, though writing a “show me all the attibutes” [...]

uP3 Day 3: More Person Directory, Publishing, & CVS

Monday, December 11th, 2006

Eric posted new PersonDirectory code which we updated to try to get — so we’re now running on changeset 2877, not RC1. Sometimes, CVS is just plain evil. Now performing the 3rd import. All kinds of issues with missing files due to default .cvsignore rules -I ! is your friend.

Not such a productive day, but [...]

uP3 Day 2: Oracle & Users

Friday, December 8th, 2006

Well, only got a couple of hours today to crack on uP3, but did manage to get it running on Oracle. After fixing the dbLoader thing, today it looks like everything is working (numerous restarts and cleans later). So, then went to add some users, which requires… manual SQL.

Adding users required inserting rows into: UPUSER, [...]

uP3 Day 1: Download & Install

Thursday, December 7th, 2006

Downloading uP3 quickstart was easy enough. Faizan exported RC1 from SVN and imported it into our CVS repository. build.properties seems not to have made it — maybe some kind of .cvsignore filter he had on Eclipse when he did the initial checkin.

Tried hooking up to Oracle, ran into problems… Spent 30 min or so until [...]

JA-SIG Projects in Action

Tuesday, December 5th, 2006

John Lewis from Unicon talked about open-source in Universities. Higher Ed has an extremely complex, dynamic, organizational structures. uPortal has grouping and other mechanisms which are more sophisticated than other projects, battle tested for large and sophisticated higher-ed deployments. CAS was one of the first systems, has features like Proxy Auth that no one else [...]

At JA-SIG

Sunday, December 3rd, 2006

Arrived in Atlanta for the JA-SIG Conference. Atlanta airport has a looooooong concourse… definitely was not walking through the first 3 terminals… Cell phone is busted though, so if anyone needs to reach me AIM (jayshao) is probably the best way. Now just have to finish those presentations that got interrupted by Rutgers WVU [...]

Flash Portal

Monday, November 13th, 2006

YourMinis is a Flash-based customizable homepage product that will compete for users with a number of similar products that use Ajax - Netvibes, Pageflakes, Google, Live.com and more. This was launched by a startup called Goowy, which created a flash-based productivity suite (email, calendar, IM, etc.) last year - see here for our Goowy coverage.

Actually, [...]

Rutgers UBC_Webmail Modifications

Sunday, November 5th, 2006

George Lindholm wrote: I’m starting some work on the UBC Webmail channel as part of our 2.0.3 to 2.5.x upgrade project. George — I’ve responded inline to get notes on the list, there’s a blog version of this online at: which has pictures which is probably much simpler to get a feel for what I’m talking about.

Rutgers has [...]

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