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New Podcast Series: ektron Developer Conversations
Today on the ektron bloghub I announced a new podcast series launched today called “Ektron Developer Conversations.” The goal of the series is to capture interesting conversations with members of the ektron engineering team and the developer community.
In the first episode available today, I talk with Ted Henry and Keith Pepin, two highly skilled and passionate front-end developers, and the conversation spanned HTML5 vs Silverlight, challenges facing front-end developers in general, and the future of front-end development tools.
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developer, ektron
Chicago Developer Meetup
The first ever Chicago area Developer Meetup was this evening and it was a good night. We had three presentations– Sue from Rock Island County talked about her experiences building navigation, Marty Samples from the Server Side demo’d a custom ajax driven taxonomy component, and I gave presentation on the new Framework API. An enterprise cms architect (Justin Ryan) was also there, so we had an open “Ask the Architect” session where people shot questions out for him to answer. Thanks to everyone from the Chicago area who showed up! We’ll meet-up again in a couple months. In the meantime, make sure to join the Chicago Ektron Developer Group on meetup.com to be notified of upcoming developer events.
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ektron, seesmic
Ektron Partners with Seesmic for Enterprise Social Desktop
Over on the Ektron Blog hub today I announced the availability of the Ektron Plug-in for Seesmic Desktop.
This release was significant to me in two ways.
First, from a personal workflow perspective, my enterprise activitystreams now play in the same space as my personal social networks. Ektron’s Intranet is a First Class Social Network in my mind, because it runs parallel to Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn– and not siloed on a webpage on the Intranet. Enterprise activities flow from the Intranet and onto the desktop, giving insight into activities and information that might have otherwise been unnoticed, in real-time, along with activities from personal social networks through LinkedIn, Twitter, etc. Fantastic.
Second, ektron’s integration is built on a platform I’ve wanted for a long time now– In 2009, I pleaded with the Lazy Web for an extensible social management client (see Dear Lazy Web: Extensible Twitter Client). Over a year later, Seesmic Desktop 2 launched with an extensibility architecture. It’s the first of its kind and allows developers to build plug-ins for it that extend social services like LinkedIn, YouTube, FaceBook. This is great stuff.
If you’re using Ektron’s eIntranet (v8.02 or later), check out the plug-in to learn how you can use Ektron’s Enterprise Social Desktop integration.
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ektron
ektron on windows server 2008
10.09.10 | Permalink | 2 CommentsIn order to run ektron on Windows Server 2008 you need to first install and configure the Indexing Service and also install the IIS 6 Metabase Compatibility components on IIS 7. It is best to do this before you attempt to install ektron on Windows Server 2008 since the installer will halt once it detects these compontents are missing. To install these components, do the following:
Installing install the IIS 6 Metabase Compatibility on IIS 7
- Click Start, click Administrative Tools and then Server Manager.
- In the left navigation pane, expand Roles, and then right-click Web Server (IIS) and select Add Role Services.
- On the Select Role Services pane, scroll down to IIS 6 Management Compatibility.
- Select the check boxes for IIS 6 Metabase Compatibility and IIS 6 Management Console.
- Click Next from the Select Role Services pane, and then click Install at the Confirm Installations Selections pane.
- Click Close to leave the Add Role Services wizard.
Installing and configuring the Indexing Service is also done through server manager
- Click Start, point to All Programs, point to Administrative Tools, and then click Server Manager.
- In the console tree of Server Manager, right-click Roles, and then click Add Roles.
- In the Add Roles Wizard, click Next.
- On the Select Server Roles page, click to select the File Services check box, and then click Next.
- On the File Services page, click Next.
- On the Select Roles Services page, click to select the Indexing Service check box under Windows Server 2003 File Services, and then click Next.
- On the Confirm Installation Selections page, click Install.
- Follow the instructions in the Add Roles Wizard to complete the installation.
It’s also suggested that you create a Microsoft Management Console (MMC) snap-in for the Indexing Service, After you install the Indexing Service. To do this:
- Click Start, click Run, type mmc, and then press ENTER.
- On the File menu, click Add/Remove Snap-in.
- In the Available snap-ins list, click Indexing Service, and then click Add.
- In the Connect to Computer dialog box, click Local computer: (the computer this console is running on), and then click Finish.
- To close the Add or Remove Snap-ins dialog box, click OK. The console displays the Indexing Service snap-in.
That’s it. Once you have these steps complete, your Windows 2008 Server is ready to install ektron.
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ektron
synergy 2010
The latest ektron developer roll-up is available on the ektron bloghub which covers this week’s release of ASP.NET MVC 3 Beta and the Synergy 2010 conference (as well as pointers to a handy jQuery Quick Start Guide and other blog posts). Ektron Synergy 2010 is next month (Nov 7-10) and is a great event, I highly encourage you to attend and guarantee you will have a great time and learn a lot. For more details, read the full post on the ektron bloghub.
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ektron
developer roll-up
New post over on the ektron bloghub, covered this week: Microsoft released SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 2. Both the Service Pack and Feature Pack updates are available for download; Microsoft TechNet posted a patch for Security Bulletin MS 10-070 detailing the vulnerability in ASP.NET that could allow information disclosure; and also information about New England Code Camp 14 in Waltham, MA. For more details, check out the developer roll-up.
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ektron
Toronto Developer Meetup
09.23.10 | Permalink | 2 CommentsIf you’re an ektron developer in the greater Toronto area, I will be at the Ce’st What Brew Pub Restaurant on Thursday, September 23 enjoying an evening meeting-up with David Fung and fellow ektron developers (and trying a couple of the 35 craft brews on tap). If you happen to be in the area and available, let me know– here are the details:
- Location: C’est What, 67 Front Street East, Toronto ON Canada
- When: Thursday, September 23, 2010
- Time: 6pm
- Website: http://www.cestwhat.com
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ektron
ektron WROX Book
07.08.10 | Permalink | 5 CommentsSince it has been announced publicly, I can finally say– I’m writing a book! It’s titled The Ektron Users Guide: Building an Ektron Powered Website and I’m writing it along with Aniel Sud. It’ll be published by WROX Press later this year, so sign up on Amazon for alerts about the book and information about it as it becomes available. Here’s a early draft of the description:
In the Ektron User Guide, developers work through detailed steps as if building a comprehensive site for an fictional software company. Upon completion, developers will have a complete website for use as a template for other projects. Each technical section implements a specific facet of the site using the Ektron Framework and includes an in-depth explanation of the technology. The content requires no prior knowledge of the Ektron platform, however, developers already familiar with Ektron can use the book as a reference guide. Topics of interest include:
- * The Ektron Architecture
- * Installing the framework, software dependencies, and samples sites
- * Creating the home page and main navigation
- * Engaging the community and delivering content to multiple channels
- * Implementing a social network
- * Constructing a Storefront with eCommerce
- * Launching and maintaining your site
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cms, ektron, web
The State of Web Dev: An Exciting Time
Over at ektron, we worked with SitePoint on a survey of 5,000 web developers titled The State of the Web Development 2006/2007 (25-page free preview). The goal was to conduct the most comprehensive study to date of the web developer community. The results are available and show not only the state of the industry, but also some interesting trends. A number of bloggers are already commenting and extrapolating.
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Ryan Steward at ZDNet: “We’re in the middle of an exciting time. People are getting very creative about their content – how they want it, where they want it, and what they want to do with it. The technologies are finally here to turn some of those thoughts into tangible solutions.”
Other noteworthy posts:
- Richard MacManus at ReadWriteWeb:  ”Ajax is set to surpass Flash in 07″
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Nick Langmaid at SitePoint: He’s one of the primary authors of the report and this post reveals additional insights from beginning to endÂ
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Matt Asay at Alfresco: “This is must-read material for anyone in the WCM space”
Note: the full report with detailed analysis is available through SitePoint.
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