Comments for Codality http://blog.najmanowicz.com Code and Effect - solving problem with just enough amount of code - by Adam Najmanowicz Thu, 25 Feb 2010 18:23:00 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 Comment on CMS UX – give the content some thought! by Stu Dean http://blog.najmanowicz.com/2010/02/08/cms-ux-give-the-content-some-thought/comment-page-1/#comment-31811 Stu Dean Thu, 25 Feb 2010 18:23:00 +0000 http://blog.najmanowicz.com/2010/02/08/cms-ux-give-the-content-some-thought/#comment-31811 Good post Adam.. The key as you say is content planning.. any Discovery phase should ask the questions.. what are the different types of content? how much of each type and frequency of growth? who creates/edits/publishes them? Getting CMS users in front of the CMS as early as possible is also key to getting valuable feedback, Content authors are people who sit in front of these systems all day every day and should be involved early in the design process and listened to.. Good post Adam..

The key as you say is content planning.. any Discovery phase should ask the questions..

what are the different types of content?
how much of each type and frequency of growth?
who creates/edits/publishes them?

Getting CMS users in front of the CMS as early as possible is also key to getting valuable feedback, Content authors are people who sit in front of these systems all day every day and should be involved early in the design process and listened to..

]]> Comment on How to get Website Thumbnail in C# by zeltera http://blog.najmanowicz.com/2006/11/17/how-to-get-website-thumbnail-in-c/comment-page-1/#comment-31111 zeltera Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:26:29 +0000 http://blog.najmanowicz.com/2006/11/17/how-to-get-website-thumbnail-in-c/#comment-31111 I tried to create a thumbnail from yahoo.com and I got a blank page. I tried to create a thumbnail from yahoo.com and I got a blank page.

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]]> Comment on Advanced Language Manipulation Tool for EPiServer by Adam Najmanowicz http://blog.najmanowicz.com/2009/04/06/advanced-language-manipulation-tool-for-episerver/comment-page-1/#comment-30071 Adam Najmanowicz Mon, 18 Jan 2010 15:32:42 +0000 http://blog.najmanowicz.com/2009/04/06/advanced-language-manipulation-tool-for-episerver/#comment-30071 About the above comment - we agreed that Øyvind will upload the code to epicode and add the necessary changes, which he has my permission to do. Nice catch with the search tables, thanks Øyvind! About the above comment – we agreed that Øyvind will upload the code to epicode and add the necessary changes, which he has my permission to do.

Nice catch with the search tables, thanks Øyvind!

]]> Comment on Easy Enum property for EPiServer by Tweets that mention Easy Enum property for EPiServer | Codality -- Topsy.com http://blog.najmanowicz.com/2009/12/26/easy-enum-property-for-episerver/comment-page-1/#comment-30062 Tweets that mention Easy Enum property for EPiServer | Codality -- Topsy.com Mon, 18 Jan 2010 11:26:13 +0000 http://blog.najmanowicz.com/?p=160#comment-30062 [...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Marek Musielak, Episervertech. Episervertech said: generate type safe list properties in episerver using enums - http://bit.ly/6bds4M - by @adamnaj ^PS [...] [...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Marek Musielak, Episervertech. Episervertech said: generate type safe list properties in episerver using enums – http://bit.ly/6bds4M – by @adamnaj ^PS [...]

]]> Comment on Advanced Language Manipulation Tool for EPiServer by Øyvind Wabakken Hognestad http://blog.najmanowicz.com/2009/04/06/advanced-language-manipulation-tool-for-episerver/comment-page-1/#comment-29896 Øyvind Wabakken Hognestad Wed, 13 Jan 2010 14:52:38 +0000 http://blog.najmanowicz.com/2009/04/06/advanced-language-manipulation-tool-for-episerver/#comment-29896 This is a nice plugin, often necessary after migrated a site. The bad thing is that it's not uploaded to a community source project place like epicode / codeplex etc so the module could be updated by those who use it. There is a problem when changing a language like this and not updating all the needed tables. In this case, the tblKeyword is not updated so the SearchDataSource will fail for all searches using the default EPiServer search. Take a look at this bloggpost and my comment. http://world.episerver.com/Blogs/Per-Bjurstrom/Archive/2009/6/Performance-How-to-disable-keyword-indexing-in-SP2/#comment36085 This is a nice plugin, often necessary after migrated a site. The bad thing is that it’s not uploaded to a community source project place like epicode / codeplex etc so the module could be updated by those who use it.

There is a problem when changing a language like this and not updating all the needed tables. In this case, the tblKeyword is not updated so the SearchDataSource will fail for all searches using the default EPiServer search.

Take a look at this bloggpost and my comment.
http://world.episerver.com/Blogs/Per-Bjurstrom/Archive/2009/6/Performance-How-to-disable-keyword-indexing-in-SP2/#comment36085

]]> Comment on How to get Website Thumbnail in C# by Adam Najmanowicz http://blog.najmanowicz.com/2006/11/17/how-to-get-website-thumbnail-in-c/comment-page-1/#comment-29639 Adam Najmanowicz Thu, 07 Jan 2010 22:54:44 +0000 http://blog.najmanowicz.com/2006/11/17/how-to-get-website-thumbnail-in-c/#comment-29639 Hi Doris, The application should be waiting before the browser reports that the page is finished loading. agreed that might not be enough if the loading is in a plugin's space. You can pretty easily modify the application to wait a certain timeout before taking the screenshot and after the browser reports loading completion. If that is not something that you can do yourself (not being programmer maybe?) mail me and I will compile a custom version of the app for you. You can find my mail on the "About me" page. Hi Doris,

The application should be waiting before the browser reports that the page is finished loading. agreed that might not be enough if the loading is in a plugin’s space. You can pretty easily modify the application to wait a certain timeout before taking the screenshot and after the browser reports loading completion.

If that is not something that you can do yourself (not being programmer maybe?) mail me and I will compile a custom version of the app for you. You can find my mail on the “About me” page.

]]> Comment on How to get Website Thumbnail in C# by Doris http://blog.najmanowicz.com/2006/11/17/how-to-get-website-thumbnail-in-c/comment-page-1/#comment-29633 Doris Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:37:06 +0000 http://blog.najmanowicz.com/2006/11/17/how-to-get-website-thumbnail-in-c/#comment-29633 It works well with some websites, but, for instance, it wouldn't take a snapshot of bing.com. Is there a way to allow the entire web page to finish loading and then take a snapshot? It would help with the sites containing flash or large images. It works well with some websites, but, for instance, it wouldn’t take a snapshot of bing.com. Is there a way to allow the entire web page to finish loading and then take a snapshot? It would help with the sites containing flash or large images.

]]> Comment on Advanced Language Manipulation Tool for EPiServer by Adam Najmanowicz http://blog.najmanowicz.com/2009/04/06/advanced-language-manipulation-tool-for-episerver/comment-page-1/#comment-28054 Adam Najmanowicz Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:22:03 +0000 http://blog.najmanowicz.com/2009/04/06/advanced-language-manipulation-tool-for-episerver/#comment-28054 Viv, I am afraid the tool won't solve your problem. How I assume your sites are structured is that they are separate trees in the CMS. The tool will not integrate such sites into a single structure, the only thing it does is convert a wrongly attributed language tags on a page. That said - the tool was initially developed on R1, but was significatyly enhanced since then. I suppose I could modify the stored procedure to work with the R1 database again, I would just need the precise revision of the CMS that you use (the database version). Viv, I am afraid the tool won’t solve your problem. How I assume your sites are structured is that they are separate trees in the CMS.

The tool will not integrate such sites into a single structure, the only thing it does is convert a wrongly attributed language tags on a page.

That said – the tool was initially developed on R1, but was significatyly enhanced since then. I suppose I could modify the stored procedure to work with the R1 database again, I would just need the precise revision of the CMS that you use (the database version).

]]> Comment on Advanced Language Manipulation Tool for EPiServer by Viv http://blog.najmanowicz.com/2009/04/06/advanced-language-manipulation-tool-for-episerver/comment-page-1/#comment-27999 Viv Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:40:04 +0000 http://blog.najmanowicz.com/2009/04/06/advanced-language-manipulation-tool-for-episerver/#comment-27999 Hi. We are still on CMS5 R1 but this tool would be a massive help as I've got regional sites that need to be moved into a single global site. Is there anything i can do to get this tool working with R1? It looks perfect but we cant upgrade to R2 for various reasons. Hi. We are still on CMS5 R1 but this tool would be a massive help as I’ve got regional sites that need to be moved into a single global site. Is there anything i can do to get this tool working with R1? It looks perfect but we cant upgrade to R2 for various reasons.

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