MCMS

Patents v. Microsoft

Jannik Anker — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 11:28:00 GMT

Via Dave Shea @ mezzoblue:

"Who's affected? Well, do you use the

<OBJECT>

element? Then, potentially, you are. Sites that embed PDF, Flash, QuickTime, Windows Media, or RealPlayer files will all get hit by this.

What happens? The page loads, but the controls are disabled by default. In order to activate them, the user must click on them first.

Bad for advertisers? Yep. Bad for CMS/eCommerce vendors that rely on ActiveX controls? Yep. Bad for media sites? You bet. Bad for Adobe? Of course.

Really, there's no good side here. Except that you've got two months to fix your sites. Like you didn't have anything better to do anyway. Enjoy."

A late Happy Holidays - and why I haven't been blogging lately

Jannik Anker — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 16:35:00 GMT

On November 1st, one of two dedicated web developers at my workplace quit. No, not me, the other one ;-).

This left me with twice the workload - and I am now eagerly awaiting January 2nd, when a new colleague joins us. Because of the sharp increase in workload, I decided to cut down on the reading and writing of blogs.

Next year I will try to be a "good blogger", writing lots more articles and so on. First thing on the list for 2006 is a review of the Advanced Microsoft Content Management Server Development book, featuring Stefan Gossner among the authors. I spent a few hours skimming it before Christmas, and it looks pretty darn nice.

Searches.GetChannelsByCustomProperty Method

Jannik Anker — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 14:14:00 GMT

Did you know the Searches.GetChannelsByCustomProperty method in MCMS?

Scary as it may be, I only recently "discovered" it... I am implementing a custom notification service for authors who have specified an "update interval" for a channel, so that I can send the relevant author an email whenever his/her channel content haven't been updated for X number of days.
With this extremely easy way of getting every single channel with this specific property defined, it makes the code way nicer to look at - and I bet the app will work way faster this way too. I'm just glad I found this bit in time!

    1 CmsApplicationContext ctx = new CmsApplicationContext();
    2 ctx = new CmsApplicationContext();
    3 ctx.AuthenticateAsCurrentUser(PublishingMode.Published);
    4 
    5 ChannelCollection cc = ctx.Searches.GetChannelsByCustomProperty(strCustomPropertyIntervalText);
    6 
    7 CheckChannels(cc);

And by the way, there's also a Searches.GetPostingsByCustomProperty method...

Ugh... Utter disappointment!

Jannik Anker — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 11:58:00 GMT

Why oh why did Mei Ying announce that the Advanced Microsoft Content Management Server Development book was FINALLY shipping when it obviously isn't so? The post she did yesterday, which I am refering to in yesterdays post, has magically disappeared. And if you look at the publishers page, it now says "expected november 2005". It was originally scheduled for september, if I remember correctly. I believe I even ordered my copy IN SEPTEMBER, thinking it would arrive IN SEPTEMBER!

Finally! Book Release - Advanced MCMS Development

Jannik Anker — Mon, 24 Oct 2005 13:43:00 GMT

~~It's on its way -~~ ~~Mei Ying~~ ~~announced it today:~~

~~"The book that~~ ~~Andrew Connell~~, ~~Angus Logan~~, ~~Stefan Goßner, and me have written,~~ ~~Advanced Microsoft Content Management Server Development~~ ~~is Available NOW!"~~

~~Here's more information about the book (and a shopping cart! ;-)~~

The (MS) Content Management Server Team is blogging!

Jannik Anker — Mon, 24 Oct 2005 13:23:00 GMT

http://blogs.msdn.com/wcm/ will be the place to be if you are interested in the so-called vNext of MCMS. The team refers to it as "Web Content Management in Office 12". Nice codename, guys ;-)

I'm sure that most of you know this already, but the next version of MCMS will be part of an Office "12" range of servers. It will be a merging of Sharepoint and MCMS technologies, which sounds quite promising. Anyhoo, the above mentioned blog is a definite must-read for an MCMS and Sharepoint developer like me:

"I'm sure there are many questions out there, both from customers and users of the current Content Managment Server 2002 product and from audiences interested in Sharepoint technologies. We'll make an attempt at providing both overviews and drilldowns on those topics that caused the longest and toughest discussions as well as on the topics that are the most critical (in our humble opinions) to get clarity around IF one were to embark on deploying a website based on what we built."

[MCMS] Stefan Gossner : Documented / Undocumented API - Why Should I care?

Jannik Anker — Thu, 28 Jul 2005 01:26:00 GMT

Our man Stefan has published a series of articles explaining why using "doubtful" methods when customizing your MCMS application hardly ever is any good.

Remember that if you make calls to undocumented API parts or edit the database directly, your solution will no longer be supportable by Microsoft. Which sucks whenever you might need it...

In other words, read these articles if you are the least bit in doubt whether your app is playing by the rules or not. Come to think of it - read them anyway, it's IMPORTANT!

Documented / Undocumented API - Why Should I care? - Part 1
Part 2 - What would YOU do?
Part 3 - How to identify 3rd party products using undocumented program internal intefaces

If your system is already "broken", Angus Logan can help you ;-)

Chester's Blog: MCMS Performance - Best Practices

Jannik Anker — Tue, 26 Jul 2005 01:33:00 GMT

Chester's Blog: MCMS Performance - Best Practices

Remember to read the comments as well (Stefan is everywhere ;-)

Stefan Gossner : New MCMS book officially anounced now!

Jannik Anker — Fri, 01 Jul 2005 02:31:00 GMT

Stefan Gossner : New MCMS book officially anounced now!: "This book has the most in depth-coverage of important MCMS development topics found anywhere."

What can you say? A definite must-have for moi...

MCMS 101 - How to point your Local Site Manager to another Environment ....

Jannik Anker — Tue, 17 May 2005 03:14:00 GMT

As part of a (101) series, Jawad Khan posted this great MCMS tip. I completely fail to see why I've mever even considered doing things this way before. Now I do, though, and I love it! Makes everything so much easier!

MCMS 101 - How to point your Local Site Manager to another Environment ....