An Intranet Up and Running in 16 days!

Does your organisation need a basic content rich web environment? Yet a lack of money, resources or skills is holding you back from getting started?

As businesses continue to change and adapt to gain market share, increase revenue, contain costs and remain competitive; their IT departments are challenged to be agile and responsive to adopt and implement these business changes. In about 16 days, cPeople can help you deploy a fully working portal and content solution by leveraging Portal NOW’s reusable software template and well-defined service processes.

During this workshop, cPeople will present you the benefits of Portal NOW:

• Scalable solution that supports collaboration, feeds, and role-based access.
• Low cost and fast implementation of a content rich Portal-based site.
• Reduce process cycle time through faster access to targeted information.

This workshop is planned on the 25th of November. For more information and enrollment, please visit the following website: http://cpeople.fb.email.addemar.com/c1/hd0d21
For more information about WebSphere PortalNOW: http://www-01.ibm.com/software/lotus/services/portalnow.html

A new name for the conference, a new attendee too.

Read more intresting stories about the conference at http://www.cpeople.be/blog

Portal is all about bringing the right content and the right tools to the right set of people at the right point of time. It is a webplatform consisting of several pages and subpages, each containing several portlets. These portlets provide functionality like normal web applications would, but they all use one consistent view. This makes it a lot easier for users, because they only need to learn to work with only one system.

A portal brings the desktop-experience to the web. Much like the dashboard in your favourite car, you have all the information you need to know at hand. You don’t want to search these information while your driving.  You need to know how the car is doing and some functionality so you enjoy your travel time. While driving yours, you are not interesting in the statistics of someone else’s car.

Using portals can be very powerfull for companies integration the applications they have. And adding new stuff should be quite simple. Remember, your company is only as strong as the ability it has to handle new business needs as quickly as possible.

More about portal development on andyvdh.optis.be

The IBM Lotus Connections 2.5 Portlets for WebSphere Portal delivers the Lotus Connections rich set of social software services for use within a WebSphere Portal environment. WebSphere Portal users can integrate the Activities, Blogs and Bookmarks services of Lotus Connections to:

• Create and work with Lotus Connections Activities within WebSphere Portal. Users can easily set prioritization, Activity status and to do items for their Activities. Also, have the ability to manage the membership to add and leverage the expertise and experience of others in the organization by working together.
• Within WebSphere Portal users can view and create Lotus Connections Blog postings and comments.
• Easily create, edit and discover Bookmarks in Lotus Connections that have been qualified by others with similar interests and expertise.

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This list of recommended reading connects you to documents that contain essential information that practitioners should know and understand before diving into Java™ EE application design and implementation using IBM® WebSphere® Application Server.

This list is intended for anyone interested in using or learning more about WebSphere Application Server.

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“IBM collaboration software is winning against Microsoft worldwide. We’ve expanded our customer and partner base significantly, and our footprint within companies with both environments,” said Bob Picciano, general manager, IBM Lotus Software. “Companies are looking at the aggregated value of IBM’s Web 2.0, collaboration, and social software for their own roadmap to the future.”

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Luis Benitez posted an article about the joint forces of IBM and SuccesFactors.

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Another interesting article about checked-exceptions. I know this is not new, but every time a new project starts, I’m having the same discussion about checked-exceptions.

Once upon a time Java created an experiment called checked-exceptions, you know you have to declare exceptions or catch them. Since that time no other language (I know of) has decided to copy this idea, but somehow the Java developers are in love with checked exceptions…

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In this technical talk, Arjen Poutsma explains RESTFul concepts and discusses Spring 3.0 support for REST in Spring MVC. For these new RESTful features in Spring, he provides details about RESTful URI’s, URI templates, Content negotiation, HTTP method conversion, and ETag support.

http://europe.springone.com/europe-2009/speaker/Arjen+Poutsma

The ‘Introducing Web 2.0 in Your Company’ Proof of Technology (PoT) provides a hands-on experience for those needing to understand how social software can foster innovation in the business environment. Participants will gain an appreciation of how Lotus Connections software helps business people with common work objectives or professional interests to find each other and share what they know. It will also show customers how IBM® Lotus® Quickr, “the fastest way to share everyday content with teams”, makes it easier to collaborate without barriers.

Offering an integrated set of five Web 2.0 based components – Profiles, Dogear (for social bookmarking), Communities, Activities, Blogs – Lotus Connections opens new channels for productive relationships. It helps users enlarge their collaborative, knowledge-sharing networks, enables businesses to tap the collective intelligence of their people, and facilitates faster, more agile business execution. Lotus Quickr is a Web 2.0-based team collaboration offering that transforms the way everyday business content, such as documents and rich media, can be shared to enable more effective team collaboration.

This PoT is designed to demonstrate the joint capabilities of IBM Lotus Connections andvIBM Lotus Quickr, showing how sharing and searching for information can be a transparent and natural extension of the way users work everyday.

For more information and enrollment, please visit this website