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October 2009

07
Oct

Wax On, Wax Off - what to do when your site is on the go-slow

You have a website, it’s hosted just down the road, and every time you browse the site it loads super quick, and everything is perfect. But have you thought about all your international visitors? Have you recently visited a site hosted across the other side of the world and found it took forever to load? If you have an internet or intranet website that’s getting hammered by site visitors, like Microsoft’s SharePoint site , you should ensure the best performance possible for such an important site. To help with this Microsoft has turned to a New Zealand company called Aptimize . ... read full post

Posted by:  Johannes Prinz,  Developer |  07 October 2009
Tags: Aptimize, WAX, website performance
05
Oct

SharePoint in the Cloud – a real world experience using BPOS

Recently we had a call from Mesynthes, a company based in the science complex at Gracefield, Wellington. These guys are doing seriously cool stuff with manufacturing artificial tissue substitutes. Their CEO Brian Ward confirmed that this could have been used for the skin graft on my hand which instead contains a piece of my leg, but the applications are much wider and include internal tissue repair. Another example of Kiwi awesomeness. ... read full post

Posted by:  Philip Plimmer,  Practice Lead, Portals, Content and Collaboration |  05 October 2009
Tags: SharePoint, BPOS, Cloud
02
Oct

Comparing travel and Microsoft Dynamics CRM projects

I am travelling at the moment, currently at Tel Aviv airport.  A couple of days ago I went to Jerusalem and my time there reminded me of a day I had last year, both providing me with very clear examples of good and poor use of time. ... read full post

Posted by:  Steve Chappel,  Solution Consultant |  02 October 2009
Tags: CRM, Business Analysis, Project Delivery
12
Oct

The water is as important as the glass (or the content is as important as the container)

Intergen’s Web Redevelopment Project Part 5 It has been a while since my last website update instalment .  We ‘went live’ on September 13. When I say ‘went live’ I mean that this was the date when we were supposed to go live. Heck, we’d built a website; we’d tested and tested it; 75% of the content had been rewritten and was ready to copy and paste. All that remained to be done was to put all the actual content in. How hard could that trifling detail be, in the scheme of things? Build it and it (the content) will come. Cue Tui billboard. ... read full post

Posted by:  Katy Sweetman,  Communications Manager |  12 October 2009
Tags: Content, EPiServer, website redevelopment
23
Oct

Deploying and load balancing EPiServer 5.2

Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been helping out on a website replacement project and one of my tasks was to install and configure the various servers - development, staging, UAT and production - and it has given me a few things to think about and talk about. ... read full post

Posted by:  Peter Jones,  Developer |  23 October 2009
Tags: EPiServer, Load Balancing, SuperDeploy