All of us at bdg are very excited about BEA World 2006. We've got our booth all ready to go, we've got bdg mousepads and playing cards to give away along with a brand new 4Gb iPod nano (to one lucky winner). Be sure to stop by our booth, located in the Portal Pavilion, just off the corner of BEA's main exhibit in the center of the exhibition hall.

On top of all that, I was given a short (but

bdg just turned four! To celebrate the beginning of year five, we've launched a new web site. It's all about how bdg, given our background of providing high-end Plumtree/ALUI consulting, development and training, is now ready to take on Enterprise 2.0.

There's also a new slogan to go with our new web site and blog: the bdg way.

For the geeks who are reading this, we built our new web site in

I'm very pleased to announce that bdg has officially kicked off our very much irregular and irreverent Plumtree podcast!

Please download and listen to our first episode, which talks about the background of your host, yours truly, Chris Bucchere; gives a rundown of recent news in the Plumtree world including G6 features and an Odyssey recap; and ends with a trivia challenge.
See if you can be

I'm very pleased to announce that we've finally laid down the fourth episode of our podcast, nearly a year after Episode 3!

A lot has happened, a lot has changed, but a few things have stayed the same, including our trivia contest. Check out this episode's question and e-mail us at podcast@bdg-online.com if you think you know the answer.

A good chunk of this episode covers bdg's take on BEA's

A couple of weekends ago I inflicted upon myself a quest to discover what all the buzz was about regarding Comet. What I discovered is that there is quite a bit of code out there to help you get started but the documentation around that code, and about Comet in general, is severely lacking. All I really wanted to find was a Comet-based Hello World, which as any developer knows, is the cornerstone