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Learn about the way GX WebManager gets to know the presentations in a presentation WCB.

In India, "open" as a focal point of WebManager is clearly paying off in terms of easy adoptation, easy implementation, easy use and easy development.

Everyone will know the concept of WCBs, but what about extensions and extensibility?

One of the good things of Java is the “create once, use everywhere” message. The modular architecture of GX WebManager supports this message in the form of WCBs. But, given a nice source tree, how can you create a nice ZIP file that contains anything you need to share? You just add some additional things to your pom.xml and MaVeN will do it for you!

GX WebManager 9.5 was released a few days ago and I will write some blog posts to elaborate a bit more on the new features for developers in 9.5. Part 2: the Personalization API

GX WebManager 9.5 is released today and I will write some blog posts to elaborate a bit more on the new features for developers in 9.5. Part 1: content API additions

Delving into the world that is text labels...

Our ease of implementation survey is online. Please help us improving our software by letting us know what you think!

It can be nice to look beyond technological and commercial impulses and look at things from a different perspective. Let’s have a closer look at the content management market and .... sustainability.

Have you already visited my LinkedIn profile? I would like to know that, but I cannot directly ask the browser to provide this information and certainly the webserver doesn't know. But there is a way to find out and link it to WebManager personalizations.

While doing some code reviews on WCBs I ran into some common issues that developers encounter while doing development. Just a few tips & tricks..

Anyone doing serious builds with Maven will at some point have the need to have access to some kind of dynamic property in the build. Using a plugin that can be configured with Beanshell script may be an elegant solution.

Relevance ranking is one of the main priorities for search engines. What is relevance and what are the enablers for relevance ranking? Find out more in part 2 of my series of 3 about search engines.

As I reported in my previous post SpringSource, formerly known as Interface21 and the company behind the popular Spring Framework, has released the SpringSource Application Platform (S2AP) in beta. This new Java application server is build on top of an OSGi runtime (Equinox) providing a very nice runtime deployment model! Put a little Spring and Apache Tomcat in the mix and, needless to say, I just had to see what I needed to do to deploy GX WebManager on S2AP.

Last year, GX implemented a new development philosophy for our software development unit called Open Development. Why did we do this? Find out in this new blog entry!

Escapism, that's what it's all about.

This week I visited the JavaOne 2008 conference in San Francisco. A lot of impressions and a great time with Java coders from all over the world. As tradition demands the conference started with a T-shirt tossing James Gosling followed by some 80 hours of technical sessions and BOFs. A few impressions...

Why on earth use the media repository? Read more and find out!

Last week, at our customer event in De Fabrique in Utrecht, the Netherlands, we officially launched the GX WebManager Community Edition. As a visitor of this website this is probably old news for you, as it was already available for a few weeks here. It's a free edition of our flagship product, perfectly usable for your websites.

I'm trying to do a lot of work in a day, but somewhere between 12:00 AM and 1:00 PM there is a break. The GX Public department is located in Eindhoven and we are famous for these breaks, because we eat tosti.

Coming live to you from J-Spring!

Programmers and page sections have little love for each other. Or have they?

Time for part two in the Maven secrets series! This post is about using assembly to create a zip distribution of your WCB. Not a secret really, but it may proof to be a major time saver when you are working on WCB projects.

This week ApacheCon EU 2008 is being held in Amsterdam. Unfortunately I could not visit the entire conference but GX was there on Tuesday and I managed to visit the conference on Wednesday evening and Thursday. A few highlights.

Some notable differences between Europe and the US are measuring units: in Europe we don’t use inches (except for television sets and computer screens), we don’t have gallons, we don’t do miles and we definitely do not use Fahrenheit. As part of baking an apple pie last weekend, I had to preheat the oven to 175 degrees Celsius and I was wondering what amount I need on the Fahrenheit scale, so I decided to connect a form to the public CelsiusToFahrenheit WebService to give me the answer.