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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...

Posted to Site Admin (Weblog) by Armand du Plessis on 07-03-2007
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...

Posted to Site Admin (Weblog) by Armand du Plessis on 04-09-2007
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...

Posted to Site Admin (Weblog) by Armand du Plessis on 04-04-2007
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.

Posted to Site Admin (Weblog) by Armand du Plessis on 01-16-2007
S3Drive

If you're reading this blog through the web interface you would have noticed that there's been some changes to the site. As part of these changes I also took the opportunity to review some of the administrative processes like backups. Currently I'm backing up my blog together with some other data to...

Posted to Impersonation Failure (Weblog) by Armand du Plessis on 01-06-2007
del.icio.us - Automatic Blog Post (Tagging Update)

I've updated the HttpHandler for Community Server del.icio.us daily blog post support I posted yesterday to include post tagging. The updated del.icio.us.ashx can be downloaded from here and the code is also included at the bottom of the post. Despite the fact that the metaweblog.newPost API used...

Posted to Impersonation Failure (Weblog) by Armand du Plessis on 11-25-2006
del.icio.us - Automatic Blog Post

[ Update : I've updated this post with tag support here ] http://del.icio.us has a very useful feature, the daily blog posting, which creates a daily blog post with all the links you tagged during the previous 24 hours. So instead of trying to memorise links and then post when you get a chance, whenever...

Posted to Impersonation Failure (Weblog) by Armand du Plessis on 11-24-2006
SSL Certificate Updated

I've updated the SSL Certificate on dotnet.org.za to a proper web server certificate from Thawte to resolve the problems with Windows Cardspace based logins caused by the previous intermediate CA reliant Starfield certificate. (What a waste of money that was) If you've previously assigned an...

Posted to Impersonation Failure (Weblog) by Armand du Plessis on 11-22-2006
MetaWeblog API - newMediaObject

Just applied the official Community Server MetaWeblog API update to allow direct uploading of images and other files to my blog through the MetaWeblog service. If you see at the bottom of the post it's working. On the image: At the rate my Vista RTM download started over the weekend it might just...

Posted to Impersonation Failure (Weblog) by Armand du Plessis on 11-20-2006
BlogMailr is Live

This is a test post from BlogMailr , the new service from Telligent that allows you to send email directly to your blog. BlogMailr as the name applies,allows users to send email to a blog. While there have been other blog add-ons for email enabling a blog, what makes this tool unique is that it is not...

Posted to Impersonation Failure (Weblog) by Armand du Plessis on 11-09-2006

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