I’m temporarily back in portal land, compiling an existing portlet against a later, much refactored, version of the business tier and life is good. As opposed to a certain dual database project which I hate with a passion.
Spent the evening creating an XSD for one of our XML files and found Hit Software’s XML utilities and XSD schema validator to be ace.
I’ve been using TiddlyWiki to keep working notes whilst installing Plumtree and it really is very good.
Of course I never did install a portlet since I mucked up the database install, so I’m going back to a backup virtual hardrive and starting again.
I spent yesterday trying to install plumtree on my work PC and gave up. I have spent today installing Plumtree Portal to run against supplied Tomcat on Windows 2000 Server all running inside a Microsoft Virtual PC. It should have taken half a day I reckon, but I made some errors which I’ll preserve for posterity.
Nevermind the best way to learn is by your mistakes, or so I have heard. I feel decidedly less frustrated today than yesterday. Tomorrow I’ve just got to install a portlet on it, which is nice.
Couple of hours this morning installing Exo portal which installed out of the box with no problems.
I spent the afternoon trying to install Plumtree, helped by one local and a remarkably patient Russian associate (via Skype and WebEx), and it has been exceedingly frustrating - for some reason one of the three services it installs will not startup and at the moment I want to defenestrate my PC.
Tried to follow the instructions for installing Plumtree and failed. 110 pages of installation guide I think I need help.
Just spent all afternoon trying to set up a web project in my IDE. Set it up easily enough but everytime I tried to login BLAM NullPointerException so go into debug mode. Takes the afternoon to figure out that it is because I develop with cookies turned off and someone has forgotten to add URL rewriting, so it’s nothing I’ve done but guess who’ll have to fix it? Can I have my afternoon back please?