Tag: ATG
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Rant About Core-Based Licensing
This is a copy of a small rant I just posted on the ATG_Tech Google Group. Please note that ATG isn’t the only company doing this, Oracle does it, as do many others. I just think that it’s wrong:) If you draw a graph showing processing power against software license cost for the same software…
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ATG License IP Checks on JBoss
Some ATG product licenses are bound to a specific list of IP addresses. However, it may validate that in a somewhat counter-intuitive manner, at least under Linux. If, for example, you are running ATG within JBoss on a server with multiple IP addresses (or multiple NICs), you might expect that if you bind JBoss to…
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Project Roles – ATG Development Practices
Let’s define some roles for a full life-cycle ATG Development effort. Your company may not be arranged exactly like this, but it’s a good baseline I think. Client Representative The single face of the client. The sole conduit to and from the client. Project Manager/Dev Manager The owner of the schedule, resources, project status, and…
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Starting Assumptions – ATG Development Practices
We need to start with some basic assumptions to guide our solution. Here is my initial list: The applications being built will be important commerce or personalization sites, but will not be the sort of critical applications like nuclear plant software or air traffic controlling programs which require massive testing and documentation The team may…
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ATG Development Practices
In a series of blog postings, and hopefully with substantial input from the ATG community, I am going to try to define ATG development best practices. From how to run a development project, to coding standards, and more. I know it will be impossible to make a perfect set of practices for everyone, there is…
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Updates to the ATG RSS Feed Module
Thanks to Doug Henderson sending me some code updates I have released a new version of the RSS Feed Droplet (first mentioned in this post) which supports configurable character encodings. This can be very useful if you have “interesting” characters in the content you are publishing. I have also rolled the code into my ATG…