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• Pruning the DNN user tables

  The odds are that if you've had user registration open for any great length of time that you'll have some users that haven't logged in for for years, or others who logged in once and never came back. A recent project to optimize an installation of DNN involved doing an inventory of the DNN user tables to see if there were opportunities for a performance improvement by winnowing out inactive or rogue user accounts from the installation. The site had collected 111,751 users in the five years of operation, not an unruly number at all but still worth investigating. Another factor at play was the sheer volume of traffic. On average, there were 1.5 million page views per month being generated by 275,000 users. After running various queries against the tables and reviewing the user-centric areas of the site, a surprising 72,963 users were identified as being candidates for removal.
• DotNetNuke Boston User Group welcomes Mandeep Singh

  Guest speaker Mandeep Singh wows the audience with overview of his DotNetNuke module suite.
• Speaking at Design Camp Boston

  If you don't already have a ticket to Design Camp Boston on Saturday, November 6, you might be out of luck - tickets for the event are sold out. It's being held over at the NERD (Microsoft New England Research & Development Center) in Cambridge. Design Camp is All About Creativity Design Camp focuses on both current trends and future developments in web design and user experience across their many forms. Community driven, Design Camp Boston is a free, weekend-day event featuring some 18 sessions spanning web site design, frameworks, content management systems, motion graphics, standards, mobile applications, marketing, social media and more. But if you are going, please stop in at my session: Introduction to the DotNetNuke Portal/CMS Platform See DotNetNuke – the leading web content management platform for Microsoft .NET, with 800,000 users and 600,000 sites in production. This open source, community-driven CMS should be considered for every web site initiative. For beginners or advanced users, you will come away with an appreciation for what DotNetNuke is capable of, and how to get started with using it to suit your needs. There are some others that might be of interest too: Open Source Marketing Platform Abusing The Internet with CSS3 Design for Change, It Makes Cents Design and Internet Explorer 9 – HTML5, CSS3, SVG, and More So you want a CMS? (Hint: It’s like picking a car.) Introduction to HTML 5 Windows Phone 7 Application Design Primer Protoyping & Wireframing with Sketchflow Efficient UX workflow from design to development Designing Faster Websites Learn CSS… Building a User-Centric Company WordPress As A CMS SEO and the SEO Toolkit Designing with Balsamiq Mockups Joomla! for Designers Web Project Lifecycle
• Facebook Open Graph is Calling

  Facebook is no longer content with simply linking people together, it now wants to link together things - essentially by weaving the social net over the top of the existing web. Brilliant! Why should you care?
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  2016 Summit Creative Award Winner

  Out of more than 5,000 submissions from 21 countries on 5 continents, Swanzey Internet Group is named a Bronze winner in the 2016 Summit Creative Award competition for the Bird Observer Online website.
• This morning in the Office

  Here's a snapshot of this morning's punch list. Draft a spec and estimate for a mobile site conversion, newsletter/eMarketing campaign suite, and online catalog that targets smart devices Issue a logo rev to a client Check status with the dev's on a couple of code forks (NB_Store, SmithCart) for some eCommerce initiatives Add/enable 600GB RAID Level 1 on one of the dedicated database servers; reconfigure the backup schedules to use the new storage. Finish and deliver a spec for a "video in the cloud" service that will pass cleanly through enterprise/corporate firewalls, optimize for the bandwidth of the requestor through adaptive bitrate, and sense the device (desktop, tablet, smart phone) to provide for the best user experience Fix some client discussion forums (ActiveForums) where some incorrect filtering was causing submitted code fragments to be mangled Investigate and resolve some bad page requests that were out of hand on a DNN 5 site Review some DotNetNuke World 2011 session videos Schedule some client training for SmithCart store administration Prep for a atratetgy meeting on member landing pages for an area health club