Building a Velocity Portlet Plugin for IRC

Published on 08. Jan, 2011 by in Back End, Development, Plugins

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Building a Velocity Portlet Plugin for IRC

This post will be dual purpose: first, to announce the release of the dotCMS IRC Client plugin, and second to provide a tutorial explaining how to launch a Velocity portlet plugin. Velocity portlets are a relatively simple way of building tools that can be built into the backend of dotCMS and be used as tabs [...]

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Enter Nutch, Stage Left

Published on 29. Dec, 2010 by in Back End, Front End

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Enter Nutch, Stage Left

Spindle sucked. Say it with me. Spindle sucked. As far as search goes, sure, it was better than nothing. The problem was that the Spindle backbone wasn’t very robust as far as search algorithms go, there was no UI for it, and the kind of results you could get were pretty limited. Not to mention [...]

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