When you have a rewards credit card you want to maximize those rewards and only way to do that is to use your credit card to pay for everything possible that will yield rewards. For my American Express that I get at least 1% on all…
I’ve been using MariaDB for some time now and it’s perfect replacement for MySQL especially with the latest news onOracle’s move to hinder MySQL developer community despite it’s promise to EU. Now is a perfect time to ditch MySQL and…
Getting credit in US might be difficult if you don’t already have credit. Even if you don’t want to get credit card it’s going to be expensive to not have any credit. There’s few things you need to start building your credit: Social…
I'm glad to announce that we have release maven artifacts for Liferay 6.1 GA2 for both EE and CE. The CE version of portal artficats are in currently in Sonatype's repository waiting to be synced to Central and EE artifacts are…
Had some frequent flier miles expiring and I am anyways stopping using Lufthansa completely but more on that on a later post so I spent my miles on something less exiting (Cusinart cookware) but my wife in turn spent her points to get…
The Trigger Happy Camera remote I blogged about few weeks ago has finally arrived. The packaging was just a padded envelope with the trigger happy cable and a thank you note. Of course it didn’t work with my wife’s 4th gen iPod Touch so…
There’s few security related things that I see people constantly doing wrong. The very first thing is assuming Liferay bundle with it’s default settings is secure for production. It is far from secure. Don’t get me wrong this doesn’t…
How do I monitor Liferay? That’s a question I’ve heard a lot lately. Well the standard way of getting some information about the application is by using JMX. The downside of JMX is that it’s a Java only standard and the only remote…
In last March I discovered a cool Kickstarter project called Trigger Happy Camera Remote. It’s a DSLR camera remote that you control with a iOS or Android device. I immediately thought that it would be an excellent gift to my wife who…
There’s several ways you could configure a connection pool for Liferay on Tomcat but the way I’m going to show is the JEE way and the only one I consider correct. The first thing is to copy or move the c3p0.jar from…
