Comments for ifPeople Blog http://ifpeople.wordpress.com Just another WordPress.com weblog Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:35:35 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on Hashtags: Turning Twitter into a Valuable Tool for Small Businesses by brandon pelissero http://ifpeople.wordpress.com/2009/09/28/hashtags-turning-twitter-into-a-valuable-tool-for-small-businesses/#comment-319 brandon pelissero Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:35:35 +0000 http://ifpeople.wordpress.com/?p=490#comment-319 What a great idea. Who knew? The path to twitter keeps getting simpler and simpler. I need to finally break down and tweet. Peer pressure is good pressure when coming from good peers! Chris and IFPEOPLE rock! What a great idea. Who knew? The path to twitter keeps getting simpler and simpler. I need to finally break down and tweet. Peer pressure is good pressure when coming from good peers!

Chris and IFPEOPLE rock!

]]> Comment on Evaluating MODx by Evaluating SilverStripe « ifPeople Blog http://ifpeople.wordpress.com/2009/09/23/evaluating-modx/#comment-306 Evaluating SilverStripe « ifPeople Blog Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:47:43 +0000 http://ifpeople.wordpress.com/?p=482#comment-306 [...] first impression of SilverStripe was similar to my first impression of MODx: out of the box functionality seems to be very limited.  Again, this is not necessarily a bad [...] [...] first impression of SilverStripe was similar to my first impression of MODx: out of the box functionality seems to be very limited.  Again, this is not necessarily a bad [...]

]]> Comment on Evaluating DotNetNuke by Evaluating MODx « ifPeople Blog http://ifpeople.wordpress.com/2009/09/22/evaluating-dotnetnuke/#comment-305 Evaluating MODx « ifPeople Blog Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:20:49 +0000 http://ifpeople.wordpress.com/?p=478#comment-305 [...] post evaluating applications that were nominated for Packt Publishing Open Source CMS Awards.  Yesterday, I tried to evaluate DotNetNuke and I was stymied by their web site. I’ve since received advice from many in the DotNetNuke community, so I will return to [...] [...] post evaluating applications that were nominated for Packt Publishing Open Source CMS Awards.  Yesterday, I tried to evaluate DotNetNuke and I was stymied by their web site. I’ve since received advice from many in the DotNetNuke community, so I will return to [...]

]]> Comment on Evaluating MODx by jzigbe http://ifpeople.wordpress.com/2009/09/23/evaluating-modx/#comment-304 jzigbe Thu, 24 Sep 2009 05:02:43 +0000 http://ifpeople.wordpress.com/?p=482#comment-304 If you are good at html and css, MODx is perfect for you. It allows a great deal of flexibility. You can within hours graft a html/css or wordpress design on to MODx. If you are good at html and css, MODx is perfect for you.
It allows a great deal of flexibility.
You can within hours graft a html/css or wordpress design on to MODx.

]]> Comment on Evaluating DotNetNuke by Scott Willhite http://ifpeople.wordpress.com/2009/09/22/evaluating-dotnetnuke/#comment-301 Scott Willhite Wed, 23 Sep 2009 18:12:43 +0000 http://ifpeople.wordpress.com/?p=478#comment-301 FYI. The browser issue is not with FireFox in general... but very specifically with FireFox 3.5 on Linux, it's a broswercaps issue actually... I'll see if I can get one of our engineers to comment further. Cheers FYI. The browser issue is not with FireFox in general… but very specifically with FireFox 3.5 on Linux, it’s a broswercaps issue actually… I’ll see if I can get one of our engineers to comment further.

Cheers

]]> Comment on Evaluating DotNetNuke by Scott Willhite http://ifpeople.wordpress.com/2009/09/22/evaluating-dotnetnuke/#comment-300 Scott Willhite Wed, 23 Sep 2009 18:09:00 +0000 http://ifpeople.wordpress.com/?p=478#comment-300 Murphy's Law reigns. The day of your attempt we went through an IP conversion in our infrastructure which resulted in the mail server being (very) temporarily unreachable. It was resolved within minutes of being identified. And our downloads page was also updated that day, the Installation instructions are no longer behind a form. Hope you'll give us another try! Scott Willhite Director of Community Relations Murphy’s Law reigns. The day of your attempt we went through an IP conversion in our infrastructure which resulted in the mail server being (very) temporarily unreachable. It was resolved within minutes of being identified. And our downloads page was also updated that day, the Installation instructions are no longer behind a form. Hope you’ll give us another try!

Scott Willhite
Director of Community Relations

]]> Comment on Evaluating MODx by Valerie http://ifpeople.wordpress.com/2009/09/23/evaluating-modx/#comment-299 Valerie Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:48:04 +0000 http://ifpeople.wordpress.com/?p=482#comment-299 I, too, had my first experience with MODx yesterday. I was asked by a client to make some changes to a site whose original designer is now long gone. While I stumbled through the interface for awhile, I did finally figure out how to make the changes they wanted. The mention of chunks and snippets is a bit intimidating, however. Since my services are more on managing the content vs creating sites, now I have to decide whether or not they should keep their site and find someone who can create new templates and add more functionality to their site with MODx, or just recommend they do a complete re-write. That said, your post was very helpful! I, too, had my first experience with MODx yesterday. I was asked by a client to make some changes to a site whose original designer is now long gone. While I stumbled through the interface for awhile, I did finally figure out how to make the changes they wanted. The mention of chunks and snippets is a bit intimidating, however.

Since my services are more on managing the content vs creating sites, now I have to decide whether or not they should keep their site and find someone who can create new templates and add more functionality to their site with MODx, or just recommend they do a complete re-write.

That said, your post was very helpful!

]]> Comment on Evaluating DotNetNuke by Tom http://ifpeople.wordpress.com/2009/09/22/evaluating-dotnetnuke/#comment-298 Tom Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:15:38 +0000 http://ifpeople.wordpress.com/?p=478#comment-298 Josh, I think you gave up to easily. The site renders fine in Firefox 3.5.3 for me. The software can be downloaded from Codeplex.com directly, see http://dotnetnuke.codeplex.com/ Prerequisites are: MS SQL database (2005 preferred, but 2000 will work for now. It does work with the free version, SQL Express) and MS IIS 6 or 7, with the .NET Framework 2.0 Give it another look, I thing you'll be surprised. The user and role managment and permissions are much easier to use compared to Drupal. TPM Josh,

I think you gave up to easily. The site renders fine in Firefox 3.5.3 for me.

The software can be downloaded from Codeplex.com directly, see http://dotnetnuke.codeplex.com/

Prerequisites are: MS SQL database (2005 preferred, but 2000 will work for now. It does work with the free version, SQL Express) and MS IIS 6 or 7, with the .NET Framework 2.0

Give it another look, I thing you’ll be surprised. The user and role managment and permissions are much easier to use compared to Drupal.

TPM

]]> Comment on Evaluating DotNetNuke by Rob Chartier http://ifpeople.wordpress.com/2009/09/22/evaluating-dotnetnuke/#comment-297 Rob Chartier Tue, 22 Sep 2009 19:10:19 +0000 http://ifpeople.wordpress.com/?p=478#comment-297 I agree with the fact that DNN's public site should be much more stable, defintely something they should pay more attention to. Interesting enough, I checked the public site with FF3.5 and couldnt repro. the issue. Where you just hitting the main page itself? I wonder if you stumbled on it at a bad time, during a maintenance window. Good luck with your reviews. I agree with the fact that DNN’s public site should be much more stable, defintely something they should pay more attention to.

Interesting enough, I checked the public site with FF3.5 and couldnt repro. the issue. Where you just hitting the main page itself?

I wonder if you stumbled on it at a bad time, during a maintenance window.

Good luck with your reviews.

]]> Comment on Evaluating DotNetNuke by Josh http://ifpeople.wordpress.com/2009/09/22/evaluating-dotnetnuke/#comment-296 Josh Tue, 22 Sep 2009 19:02:38 +0000 http://ifpeople.wordpress.com/?p=478#comment-296 The answer to why I didn't just download the site from Codeplex is that I didn't know how to do that. I was approaching DotNetNuke as a total newbie, interested in trying it out. My experience with the website was extremely off-putting, in just about every regard. This is not welcoming for newbies. When you adopt an open source product, you are also becoming part of community. There shouldn't be crazy barriers to entry like a broken website. And the website was broken. The FF3.5 problems were not my only concern. As I noted, the SMTP server was also not configured properly. That said, I am still interested in checking out the software, so I will try to download it from Codeplex. Right now, though, it has been moved to the bottom of my list. The answer to why I didn’t just download the site from Codeplex is that I didn’t know how to do that. I was approaching DotNetNuke as a total newbie, interested in trying it out. My experience with the website was extremely off-putting, in just about every regard. This is not welcoming for newbies.

When you adopt an open source product, you are also becoming part of community. There shouldn’t be crazy barriers to entry like a broken website. And the website was broken. The FF3.5 problems were not my only concern. As I noted, the SMTP server was also not configured properly.

That said, I am still interested in checking out the software, so I will try to download it from Codeplex. Right now, though, it has been moved to the bottom of my list.

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