This is a book review of Liferay Portal 5.2 Systems Development by Jonas X. Yuan. Having no previous experience with this platform, I bought this book to try to get an overview of Liferay. The book starts out by giving an overview of Liferay and an overview of JSR-286. The bulk of the book (90%) [...]
Archive for August, 2009
22 Aug
Review: Pragmatic Thinking and Learning
This is a review of “Pragmatic Thinking and Learning” by Andy Hunt. So this book was a change of pace for my tech book library as it is not really a technical book, but rather a sort of users guide for that piece of software in your head, called your brain. The book explains the [...]
17 Aug
Review: Using Drupal
This is a review of the book “Using Drupal” by a myriad of authors. I picked up this book because I’ve been evaluating possible migration alternatives for an existing website that requires a mixture of CMS, light-DAM and user community features (blogging, wikis etc). The playing field seems pretty big between Joomla and Drupal (from [...]
3 Aug
Upgrade to Spring AS 0.8 and others
The Spring Actionscript project is maturing and as they do, they keep teasing apart the entire project. So I am now upgrading from 0.7 to 0.8 and if you are to, here is what you can expect. (change log here) a) If you were using the older AS3Reflect library, well now they moved that again [...]