Who I am and what is this blog about

I have been working with Plumtree, err Aqua Logic User Inter-something, since 2001. I started off in the support department with Plumtree, and worked my way up in the industry. If you worked with Plumtree in the ’01-’03 range, you probably spoke to me on the phone or via email. So if you don’t remember me, that is ok. I have a very bland name that is easy to forget. I mean how bad is Andrew Morris (andrew.morris@bdg-online.com)… Currently I am running the west coast operations for bdg. My job entails gaining clients and getting gigs for my team in the West. I got the idea for this blog from a couple of things; 1) Chris Bucchere, would not stop bugging me about writing my own blog (if you know Chris, you know how he can be.), 2) there are really no blogs out there which have what I feel a Plumtree blog should have.

First I am totally open to questions or suggestions so feel free to post them. Unlike Chris’s blog, look at the links section; I am not going to chat specifically about bdg or Plumtree. I will try and keep my focus on Plumtree, but I may talk about Oracle Portal, or many other things. I think of myself as a .Net guy, but I have been doing Java for the last 2 years. And ohhh does it kill me. You will probably see some rants on this, or even on Plumtree. I want to blog about what everyone who ever used, developed, or sold Plumtree thought, but never had the guts to write it down.

Now don’t get me wrong. Plumtree is a great product. In fact the best I have ever worked with, but that does not mean it has its flaws. However, the one thing Plumtree has is the ability to allow people such as myself to fix these flaws. I mean, come on. How many of you have deployed customizations to just fix bugs? Over the course of my blog entries I will go over talk about what I do for a living. That is designing, implementing things for Plumtree. I could talk about the code I am writing or Plumtree bugs or any number of other applications. So let me know what you think about this, or any suggestions you may have. Stay tuned for the next post, as I will probably rant about the whole SSO Login procedures with Plumtree and Oracle. The rant will include why the Oracle SSO was used, and finally how to do it.