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26 March 2008
Spam Busting
We've updated all the Spam Rules this morning and added several new filters to the site which should resolve the current wave of spam that has been plaguing the dotnet.org.za blogs. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Read More...
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09 October 2007
Server Restored
The much hyped Tornado never hit Johannesburg yesterday but unfortunately something of similar proportions struck down our dotnet.org.za hosting server. At around 00:30 last I received a notification that something went wrong with the server. We worked with Voxel engineers and eventually installed a... Read More...
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06 September 2007
Two Minor Site Tweaks
Two minor tweaks to the site this afternoon: Careers - Posts from blogs in the Careers Group will no longer display in the default main feed. They will all be aggregated under the Careers heading only. More changes to that section soon. Individual blog sitemaps. Got a request from Rudi this afternoon... Read More...
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20 July 2007
Twitter Feed
For those on Twitter there is now a Twitter feed for all new posts on dotnet.org.za available at https://twitter.com/dotnetorgza . If you follow the dotnetorgza user you will get notified via a Tweet whenever there's a new post. This thanks to Kyle Beyer's Twitter Module . Share this post: email... Read More...
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03 July 2007
Dotnet.org.za Subversion Access
In the past the maintenance of this site has pretty much been a one man show with the sad effect that when I'm busy very little is done in terms of updates or additions to the site. As one example - it's a shame that months after the upgrade to Community Server 2007 the site is still running... Read More...
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06 June 2007
Community Server 2007 SP1
Last night I upgraded dotnet.org.za to Community Server 2007 . Below is the complete list of the fixes and improvements from this release: User Experience Improvements Corrected width of modals in the Control Panel. Updated Control Panel to hide Manage Licenses for non-admins Updated "Default"... Read More...
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09 April 2007
Homepage Cleanup
After having a look at the main page of the site and the relevant site overlays on Google Analytics I decided to make some changes to the home page tonight. I removed all the unnecessary links and irrelevant stats and instead just rendering a clean post list of the last 25 posts. (To remove the cached... Read More...
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04 April 2007
Site Down
Unfortunately for reasons still unknown the site stopped responding and no requests were processed. We suspect it's a silent protest against those "Retirement Ads" that Google Ads displays on the home page every now and then but we will be looking in to it in more detail to avoid a similar situation... Read More...
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19 February 2007
New Server
I moved the site onto a new server this morning and while everything should be working as usual should you come across something not working please let me know over here . The old site is still online until all cached dns entries expire and all traffic is routed to the new box. Both machines is hosted... Read More...
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01 February 2007
Hardware Upgrade
Just a quick heads-up on an upcoming hardware upgrade : We've ordered a new server (Dual Xeon/2GB RAM) from our host to replace the current server which should be operational by next week. This should address the slow response from the past couple of weeks. The site shouldn't be offline more than 2 hours... Read More...
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16 January 2007
Performance Tuning
We've done some performance tuning to the dotnet.org.za database which hopefully improved the general site responsiveness noticably. The server is also getting another 1GB of RAM as a late X-Mas present which should improve things further. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit... Read More...
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07 January 2007
Google AdSense
While I've been very hesitant before to include any form of advertising on dotnet.org.za I've decided to run some Google Ads on a trial basis for the new site. As you'll see I've tried to keep the ads to a minimum with only some textual ads on the communal sections of the site and a single 468x60 block... Read More...
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05 January 2007
Site Upgrade - I
I've upgraded this site to Community Server 2.1 SP2 tonight. As part of the upgrade the site has been given a complete face lift by Community Server skinning guru Jaxon Rice from www.soup.co.za ! And it's not just looking great, web standards compliance have also been improved significantly. (If things... Read More...
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04 January 2007
Site Upgrade and Downtime
Yesterday I posted that the site will be upgraded today. However the upgrade will only start tomorrow (2007/03/04) at 15h00. Just a note that the site might be offline for a couple of hours while the upgrade is in progress. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live... Read More...
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03 November 2006
Feed Excerpts
As most of you have probably noticed, a couple of days back we switched the aggregate home page and blog home page back to only displaying 500 character excerpts from posts. There’s a couple of reasons for this change: The home page sometimes exceeded 400k which impacts negatively on page load time It... Read More...
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