Links

Following are a variety of resources that I find useful in my work and that you might also. Resources related to multiple categories may appear multiple times on this page.

Base22

Base22 Knowledge Wiki: Insights, guides, instructions and notes from my team at Base22.
Base22: My company of designers, developers, and architects focused on Enterprise Web Evolution.

IBM Connections

Socialize Me: A blog about how Enterprise 2.0 accelerates innovation in the workplace from Luis Benitez, a Social Software Product Manager at IBM.
A Portal to a Portal: Dave Hay's blog, which tends to present upon the same general subject matter that I do. If you like my blog, I think you'll like this one too; similar subject matter and consistently frequent posts.
The Connections Blog: All the latest Lotus Connections news from Stuart McIntyre and Sharon Bellamy.
IBM Connections wiki: Learn how to use IBM Connections components, contribute to its product knowledge base, and collaborate with others. You can also add your own expertise to the mix, log on to comment on an article, or author one of your own.
IBM Connections 3 documentation: Contains information describing features, planning, migration, installation, administration, integration, developer resources, day-to-day usage, troubleshooting, and messages.

IBM Web Content Manager

Redbooks Wiki: Building a Web site using Lotus Web Content Management 6.1 > 3.4.2. Workflow: I like this page in particular because it provides a great example for creating a Custom Workflow Action in WCM. Example code demonstrates creating an action that makes a thumbnail of an attached image content is published.
Troubleshooting IBM Lotus Web Content Management Syndication: This article provides quick troubleshooting tips and steps to address commonly reported scenarios for syndication failure in IBM Web Content Manageer (WCM) 6.x.
A Portal to a Portal: Dave Hay's blog, which tends to present upon the same general subject matter that I do. If you like my blog, I think you'll like this one too; similar subject matter and consistently frequent posts.
wp_profile: A weblog by Raúl Muñoz, an IBM Collaboration Solutions Architect working with web experience technologies that include WebSphere Portal and IBM Web Content Manager.
Troubleshooting WCM JSR 286 Portlet (Tips, Issues and limitations): This article discusses some frequently asked questions about the JSR 286 Web Content Viewer portlet. Some issues have been identified with the first release of the JSR 286 rendering portlet. As workarounds or fixes are found they may be documented here.
IBM Web Content Manager forum: Discussion forum for IBM Web Content Manager (WCM)
Best Practice: WebSphere Portal & WCM: One of the most informative WPS and WCM blogs I've found.
Troubleshooting WCM API, How To, and Sample Code: Troubleshooting common issues with the WCM API. Sample code and How To instructions.
Ephox EditLive 7.x Documentation: Documentation for the EditLive rich text editor, which organizations often use for WYSIWYG editing in IBM Web Content Manager.
DojoEventCalendar using Personalization Rules: This sample uses the Dojo Calendar widget in conjunction with LWCM Event content to enable users to select a date from the calendar to see the events for that day. In addition events may be displayed by location or all events may be shown. A dojo lightbox
Visibility Rule Caching in Personalization: This document will cover visibility rule caching, possible problems with visibility rule caching, the differences between visibility rule caching and regular cache, how to manage the cache and a look into the caching API.

IBM WebSphere Portal

WebSphere Portal Family wiki: Product documentation and supplemental content for WebSphere Portal, IBM Web Content Manager and Customer Experience Suite.
A Portal to a Portal: Dave Hay's blog, which tends to present upon the same general subject matter that I do. If you like my blog, I think you'll like this one too; similar subject matter and consistently frequent posts.
Siva R Vaka's Blog: Siva is an IBM Websphere Portal and IBM WCM Consultant who posts a lot of great technical information related to his experiences.
Portal Solutions Blog: Perficient's blog full of interesting, insightful and entertaining perspectives on portals, content management and enterprise communication tools.
wp_profile: A weblog by Raúl Muñoz, an IBM Collaboration Solutions Architect working with web experience technologies that include WebSphere Portal and IBM Web Content Manager.
IBM developerWorks: WebSphere Portal zone: The IBM WebSphere Portal product home on developerWorks®.
Best Practice: WebSphere Portal & WCM: One of the most informative WPS and WCM blogs I've found.
IBM WebSphere Portal YouTube Channel: Various presentations and video demonstrations of WebSphere Portal in action.
WebSphere Notes (Sunil Patil's Blog): Sunil Patil is a WebSphere Portal consultant with an impressive list of certifications and also author of few books and articles.
WebSphere Portlet Factory Wiki: Official product documentation describing how to install and set up Portlet Factory, as well as how to develop, debug, and publish applications.
WebSphere Portlet Factory Customer Discussion Forums: Customer discussion forums for IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory.
IBM Mobile Portal Accelerator Wiki: Information about delivering portal content to a broad range of mobile devices.
IBM developerWorks: WebSphere Portal Discussion Forum: A newsgroup-style discussion forum about WebSphere Portal.
How to generate a complete XMLAccess export of a Portal configuration: To assist in troubleshooting a WebSphere Portal issue, you may be asked by IBM Support to take a "full" or complete export of your Portal configuration using the XML Configuration Interface, commonly known as XMLAccess. This resource describes how.
Thoughts on Portal from Level 2 Support: Weblog from the folks in IBM L2 Support
IBM WebSphere Portal Solution Installer: The IBM WebSphere Portal Solution Installer is a utility for installing, uninstalling and updating solutions or applications to an instance of WebSphere Portal Server. The basis of the Solution Installer is a standard format for application distribution,
Developing an Exceptional Web Experience: You don't need to sacrifice scalability, flexibility, and manageability to create a graphical, persuasive, and responsive web experience. This content area is dedicated to helping you develop a web experiences that is visually pleasing and flexible.
Health Checker tool for WebSphere Portal V7.0: The Health Checker tool allows you to run a verification of your WebSphere Portal settings before applying the Fix Pack or Combined Cumulative Fx itself to better plan your upgrade. This document describes how and when to use the Health Checker tool for W
IBM Web Application Bridge: The IBM Web Application Bridge (or WAB) is a feature that uses reverse proxy technology to integrate different web applications natively inside WebSphere Portal pages so that WebSphere Portal becomes the single window of access to users.
Enabler API Quick Reference: A JavaScript-based API that provides public classes and interfaces used for navigation, layout, pages, and more. This is the client side (CSA) API for Portal.
WebSphere Portal Club: A multi-author blog "All about Portals and its surroundings.."
Create a custom theme without WebDAV: The Portal product documentation describes how to create custom themes and you may have already created a custom theme with static components in WebDAV and dynamic components in a WAR file. This article describes how you can create a theme with all the c
Troubleshooting and FAQs for WebSphere Portal Personalization
Extending WebSphere Portal V6 personalization capabilities: Part 2. Creating a Hello World application object
Virtual Member Manager API
WebSphere Portal 6.1.5 wkplc.properties file reference: This reference document is based on the wkplc.properties file included with WebSphere Portal 6.1.5. As needed, IBM support will make updates to this reference document to clarify usage and limitations.
Extreme Portal blog: Neeraj Sidhaye's blog. Good stuff.
Tuning guide for dynamic cache and data replication service: This guide to tuning IBM WebSphere Application Server dynamic caching and the data replication service (DRS) can help you improve the performance of your Web solutions.