By Christian Goetzman

Making a site SEO friendly is all about quality content and keyword research. Writing content around your targeted keywords, not just weaving keywords in, and then building high ranking links to[...]

Don't get stuck.

For all open-source CMS platforms or portals, there may be some preferred ways of doing things. Some libraries and methods may even be "invented" by the developers of these platforms in attempt to[...]

Finding, hiring and retaining top talent in any industry can be tough. In the information technology industry this is especially true. The finding and hiring parts of this trio are where many companies focus 100% of[...]

WANT MVC?

Are you still using plain vanilla portlets and want to catch up with the rest of the modern web development world? Then it's time to move on to using a Model-View-Controller framework. SpringMVC is one of the[...]

By Justin Freeman

Over the years in my work as a consultant, I’ve worked with several companies that were looking to convert their legacy systems to a web-based solution. Once they selected Java (great choice!) as their[...]

By Christian Goetzman

SIMPLIFYING PORTLETS

As a consultant asked to maintain and expand portal applications, one of the problems I run across is "portlet bloat." That is, a single portlet solves all the problems of an application on its own[...]

During the fourth quarter of 2012, Robert Half released their annual salary guide, which I’m sure had many tech professionals smiling all the way through their morning stand up meetings. While tech salaries are already[...]

IT'S 2013 AND ISOS IS RAMPING UP OUR PHYSICAL AND DIGITAL PRESENCE!

We are kicking off the New Year with some great changes. We have officially moved into our newer, much larger office at the University Center in Tempe.[...]

The horse and buggy is still a viable mode of transportation. Newer needs can be accommodated by adding horses and modifying the buggy. Of course just because something can be done doesn’t mean it should.When Java was[...]