Build a blog with Carbon LDP and Angular – Part 1

In this tutorial, we are going to be creating an awesome blog engine using two great tools: Angular and Carbon LDP. This tutorial was inspired by the official one published by the Carbon LDP team in https://carbonldp.com/blog/2018/11/23/build-a-blog-with-carbon-ldp-and-react-part-1/ In order to successfully go through this tutorial, JavaScript and CSS knowledge is required. Complementary source code is available…

How to set JAVA_HOME in Mac OS X High Sierra

This post describes how to configure the JAVA_HOME environment variable required by many enterprise tools, frameworks, and CMSes. For instance, Liferay, Tomcat, etc. will use this variable to work properly. In case you have changed your default shell (Bash) that comes with OS X out-of-the-box, please read How to set JAVA_HOME in Mac OS X High…

How to get MySQL time zone?

Under certain circumstances it is relevant to know the timezone in which your date is being stored in a Relational Database System, for example MySQL. One of the easiest ways to know is just by running following command: Step 1. Login to MySQL mysql -u root -p Step 2. Run a “select” query to get…

How to reset page navigation component to render the content items from first page in IBM WCM

The problem When working with navigation components, it is common to share the same pagination in several menu or personalization components, however this introduces an issue because when clicking on the “Next” or “Previous” page the URL is going to have a parameter with the paging state which causes the problem of keeping the page…

What is a render parameter in IBM WCM and how it is related to the Plugin RenderParam?

Today, while I was reading the IBM WCM plugins documentation I found a plugin called The render parameter plug-in, which definition is formally: Use the RenderParam rendering plug-in to access public and private render parameters from your web content. Taken from The render parameter plug-in article in IBM Knowledge Center. So, these questions came into my mind: what is it…