Have you Seen Subscriber?

Posted by Hani Atalla on December 19, 2011 Cool Tools, Development eAlerts Subscriber Portlet Notification

Among the core components of WebCenter Interaction (WCI) is its “notification engine.”  Users get notified via email or RSS feeds when information stored in the portal is updated. Typically, we subscribe to specific pieces of information we are interested in: e.g. collab projects, documents, discussion threads, tasks, etc. and then decide on the notification frequency: e.g. immediate, hourly, daily, or weekly summary email alerts.

I’ve often subscribed to pieces of information in WCI only to realize that my inbox gets flooded with notifications alerting me that content was updated...

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Sauce Tasting

Posted by Vasanth Manikumar on December 06, 2011 Cool Tools, Development

As most web developers would attest, one of the most time consuming and challenging aspects of the job is to test and support your code across multiple browsers. A couple of years ago, one might have gone about testing with separate VMs that have different versions of browsers. Then along came tools such as IETester, which allow you to test across various versions of Internet Explorer (IE). By the way, if you keep up with our blogs, then you might recall...

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Best Practices for your Splunk Deployment: Indexer Performance

Posted by Sandeep Khaneja on November 22, 2011 Best Practices, Operational Intelligence

Function1 is a Professional Services Partner to Splunk.  We have gathered a wealth of experience in conducting dozens of consulting engagements in conjunction with Splunk PS, and now we want to share some of our Best Practices with you. The most common growth of a Splunk deployment starts from a utility used by your Systems Administrator to find that needle in the haystack issue,  and grows to an enterprise scale reporting tool used by the leaders of your organization.  Splunk as an enterprise platform is typically situated in a very prominent place in the decision-making process of your...

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Required Reading 2: Change Management and You

Posted by Avani Cheriathundam on November 07, 2011 Best Practices

Change is never easy, but acclimating to change that you are unprepared for, is even harder.  In the IT world, a standardized change management process ensures that there is minimal impact due to any changes that are imposed.  It is especially important to have the proper change management process in place because changes can affect anything from multiple users, disrupt key business activities, involve modifications to the infrastructure, or involve process modifications. It also facilitates efficient and prompt handling of all changes maintaining balance between the need for change and...

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Claims-Based Authentication for SharePoint 2010

Posted by Somen De on November 03, 2011 Enterprise 2.0 active directory, adfs, authentication

Imagine a world where you don’t have to worry about handling authentication for different types of users of your application.  In modern day information technology, businesses want to interoperate with other businesses, and government organizations want to provide more integrated services to citizens.  However, different systems use different authentication systems and businesses want to integrate in a secure, legally compliant manner.

Given this environment where user accounts and applications are located in completely different networks or organizations, imagine that every request...

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