Isos Geek Nights, in general, have garnered increasing interest among the Isos team as more sessions have been added. Having a wide range of topics often falling outside the general day-to-day activities of our team[...]

Understanding user experience doesn't mean you're paid to nit about every little thing. Understanding a user experience designer means trusting in their abilities and value in web application development when putting[...]

By Justin Freeman

I recently ran into a requirement on one of my consulting assignments where I was required to include multiple EntityManagers in my application. Since I had never come across this before, I did some[...]

This was my second time attending Atlassian’s Summit and I have to admit I was pretty excited! A chance to spend a full week in San Francisco, walking the streets and taking in the crazy scenes, and great restaurants. I[...]

Before we get to the why, let’s start with the what. In this case the what is, “what is Gradle.” In the simplest terms Gradle is a Groovy based build automation tool that sits in the middle ground between Ant and Maven.[...]

By Thomas Behlau

After we configure a well-structred Maven layout for our Liferay project, we will create a simple Spring MVC portlet. You may ask, "Why use Spring MVC and not extend one of the Liferay implementations[...]

By Robert Hall

Unit testing has long been considered a critical part of the development cycle for Java developers, especially those practicing test-driven development or Agile methodologies. This should be no different[...]

How can switching instant messaging (IM) platforms change anything? Don't they all do roughly the same thing? This is what I was saying before we adopted HipChat a few months ago. I had read all of the rave reviews,[...]

By Justin Freeman

I have already talked about jQuery and Dojo. The last library I will talk about is the Prototype library.

I know it would be more appropriate to talk about YUI (Yahoo’s library) or some other[...]

By Robert Hall

In the process of developing portals with Liferay, it is often necessary to set up and tear down servers with a Liferay instance on them.   There are many ways of accomplishing this, such as using VMs,[...]