My last blog article "Selecting the Right Source Control Provider" touched on the evaluation criteria that I use when looking for a source control system. This article is a review of sorts of SourceGear's Vault product, my preferred source control system. I'll start by reviewing vault as it relates to the criteria from the previous article, I will then provide my overall feedback on my experience with Vault.
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Posted by Mitchel on Thursday, April 16, 2009
For those of you that follow me on Twitter you might have caught a few remarks about my attempts at putting up a DotNetNuke site at Mosso. For those unfamiliar with Mosso, they are a provider of Cloud Computing hosting services, essentially a dynamically scalable solution based on a model where you pay for your usage. For those establishing new sites that are expected to gain popularity, it can be a very helpful thing to have a hosting arrragement like Mosso. The reason is that the cost is affordable when starting out, and continues to be so as your site scales up in usage. There is no need to spend $300+ a month from the beginning to have a big beefy dedicated server to just be ready to handle your later growth! Below I'll provide some feedback on my experiences, their service, and will include a VERY nice discount offer!
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Posted by Mitchel on Monday, October 13, 2008
I have recently been given the opportunity to preview the upcoming Active Forums 4.0 release. In this starter review I will give my first opinions after working with the module for a short time and experimenting with the new features. A full review of the module will come after it has been released and I am able to test/work with the full edition.
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Posted by Mitchel on Sunday, August 17, 2008
In the past I have completed reviews of various DotNetNuke modules, components, and skins, however, recently I have been receiving a number of e-mails with questions about how I manage my business. Typically these questions have been from individuals that are just starting out with consulting business, or those looking for better ways to manage their pending products. Once item that I always recommend to people is BaseCamp, a hosted project management solution provided by 37Signals. This article will go through the features/services offered, and why I use it to manage all projects.
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Posted by Mitchel on Friday, August 01, 2008
As many of you may have noticed in the past few weeks since I have updated this site that there were a number of major changes. Improved site performance, new site skin, re-organized content, and most importantly new URL structures. In this article I will provide a review of the Url Master module created by IFinity, with a detailed account of my experiences with the module and how it helped make recent content changes possible.
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Posted by Mitchel on Tuesday, July 15, 2008
The topic of choosing a hosting provider for DotNetNuke is something that I see appear on a regular basis on the DotNetNuke forums and here on my forums as well. The way I see it the selection of a hosting provider isn't just about the price, it is something that requires a much more detailed look at what services you get and what services you really need. You can then balance those to find the right hosting provider for your needs. As many people are aware I typically direct people towards 3Essentials. In this article I will walk you through my decision process on the items that I look for in a hosting provider, and why I might choose over the other. Consider this my approach towards Shared Hosting solutions. These statements in no way are considered offical, and you MUST take the time to do your own research to form your own conclusions before making a decision. Moving hosting providers is not all that complicated, but it is a somewhat complex and time consuming actiivity and something that you don't want to do unless you have to.
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Posted by Mitchel on Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Recently I was given the opportunity to review and test the Dynamic Registration Module offered by Data Springs Inc. I have to say of the DNN modules that I have reviewed this is one of the better ones out there. I have yet to implement this on a production site yet, but have extensively tested the module and their documentation and it passed with flying colors.
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Posted by Mitchel on Wednesday, September 26, 2007
As many of my regular readers have noticed I have recently migrated from the Core DNN Forum module to the ActiveForums module created by ActiveModules. This article is a full review of the new forum and my overall thoughts regarding the switch and the new features provided by the ActiveForums module.
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Posted by Mitchel on Saturday, September 01, 2007
As I am sure that many of the regular readers of this site have noticed I recently changed my website navigation structure and overall skin design. As part of this site re-design I switched away from the standard DotNetNuke Menu control to using the “Css NavMenu” provided by Snapsis. This article is a detailed review of this skin object and the ease of use to implement as well as the noticed benefits over the standard DotNetNuke menu.
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Posted by Mitchel on Monday, August 13, 2007
As promised this article is an update with more testing results of DNN core
modules and the enabling of AJAX. I will investigate multiple core modules and
will provide the test results for each of the modules, regardless of success or
failure, to give you an idea of where each of these modules are for potential
use of AJAX.
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Posted by Mitchel on Thursday, April 26, 2007
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