During our work towards continuous deployment we have
had some questions arise while figuring out the workflow with our
new adoption of Git. When do we merge to master? Do we create
the package from a branch? Who executes the merge into master?
With all these questions we were pondering, we knew someone
else had to be dealing with the same issues and questions we had.
So we set out on an digital scavenger hunt to find the
answers. Without getting into to many details we needed to
know what...
Read More » »
Spending
some time in Product Support I have come to really appreciate the
work that they are doing. As an aid to them I am going to
walk you through the perfect Support request. Now I know that
the perfect Support Request sounds like a myth, but I will do my
best to lay the ground work for any type of request you may have.
The key to getting your request accomplished in as timely a
manner as possible is providing all or as many of the details as
possible in the initial request. Now this is...
Read More » »
Compendium Engineering is going to be a little short this Holiday
Season. With all the hard work that was put in throughout the
year there was a heavy accumulation of PTO. Each of us
including myself will be taking of some or all of the rest of the
holiday season. So incase we miss you. Merry Christmas
and Happy New Year from me and the rest of the Engineering
team.
See you in 2012!!!
This is my first post as the Senior UI Engineer at Compendium. I
hope to continue posting here on a regular basis with more updates
on what we're working on. My goal is to keeping making the
Compendium Business Blogging Platform more powerful and easier to
use.
jQuery-UI Confirm Button
When designing a user-interface it is important to make it hard to
perform unrecoverable actions accidentally. There are a couple of
ways you can do this. You can do this with layout; your save button
probably...
Read More » »
We have had some ATT U-Verse woes here in the Compendium
Engineering department. One stopper after another until
we finally managed to configure an outrageously confusing netowrk
to solve a very simple and unneccesary problem. One that
should have been able to be solved with a flip of a
switch. This problem: DHCP.
The U-Verse gateway has built in DHCP, which is nice for home
users, but it cannot be turned off. This was a huge
issue for us. Problem number 1: How are we going to
block DHCP...
Read More » »
With the most recent release of 2.9.1, which was codenamed
Tasty McRib, a number of new features were added to the Compendium
Platform. The newest Compendium Features include:
- 301 Redirects - Managed by the System Administrator. (see
Figure 2)
- New Menu Look - To match the current styling. (see Figure
1)
- Email to Post Fix - Will now Recognize MIME types on the e-mail
parcer.
- Remote Key listed - Under users' property edit dialog box.
Figure 1
Figure 1
Figure 2
Figure 2
The Redirect Management page is...
Read More » »
Have you ever turned on your computer
and found that it would not boot up? Here's what happened to me the
other day:
I ran into a situation that seemed to have me
stumped. The Windows XP machine was producting the BSOD (Blue
Screen of Death) and would not boot up into safe mode or normaly
and it was looking like I was going to have to reinstall the
operating system. The system was in a state that it would not
even allow me to perform an upgrade install on top of the...
Read More » »
Here at Compendium, we recently launched a new feature that
utilizes data from
Google Analytics (GA). This
new feature pulls organic search traffic data from GA and
correlates it to the number of posts you have created over a given
period of time. This feature is meant to provide users with an
instrument to measure the success of their blog. We plan on
expanding on this to pull a lot more of Google's data in the near
future.
Organic search traffic (red) to posts (green)
correlationWhen a new blog...
Read More » »
We needed to display some dynamic charts on a new page in our
application. The app makes extensive use of YUI 2, but rather
than blindly using YUI 2's Charts Control (which is in beta right
now anyway), we decided to consider as many options as possible to
find the best tool for our purpose.
Since we wanted the chart to be interactive, a JavaScript library
made more sense than a server-side chart generator.
Furthermore, we preferred a library that we could host
ourselves, so Google Chart Tools...
Read More » »
