WebSphere Portal RAD 7.0

I had today a lot of trouble getting my portlet project deployed into the the WebSphere Portal server.

The server was started the publish progress bar was at 100 %, then the deployment failed "could connect to WebSphere Application Server"

I have try doing a lot of differnent things.. but what that resolved my problem was to create a new workspace..

Hope this help other ..

Eat the frog

I have read some excellent book lately the first one was "eat the frog" .. the books is about been more productive by avoid postpone the "boring" tasks .. I have decided to let some of these advice come into my live..

Another book i'm about to read is the 8'the habit this is a very good book, the goal is to explain how to be a leader in business as well as you personal live. Some of the conclusions/advice in the book is very good but still om think the book maybe has a to wide a scope.

gPhone

At last Google announced there gPhone.. or its was not a phone anyway but a mobile infrastructure called Android.
I have looked at it and I think it look very promising, when that is said I think its a problem that Google create there own JVM instead of using existing ones.

But anyway I will take it for a spin, actually I have downloaded it on my Linux and installed the IDE part and created my first application yesterday.
My plan is to run through all the tutorials and try to make an interesting application.. that maybe can be a part of the Google contest..

WebSphere Portal action url

I been working today with creating action url from within WebSphere Portal using the excellent article from developerworks.

But i keept getting a classcast String exception when adding action parameter to my generated call.

The answer was that the provided map to the PortletAccessorController should contain item if type String and String[]

like this:
Hash map = new HashMap();
map.put("test",new String[] {"myTestItem"})

Hope this help someone outthere

Open social

I've just seen the presentation of the opensocial created by Google and the concept is really good. If you had asked me a month ago I would have thought that the FaceBook platform was the right approach for creating social apps.. but I think with Google and MySpace backing the OpenSocial.. FaceBook has to go that way .

I have played around with FaceBook and a Think it was nice but I still the value add of using a shared API for Social apps us an important point.

I hope to get some time trying out the opensocial.