I am curious if Algolia will work in all countries? I am concerned about things like China's Firewall which may not allow for it to work. Is there any documentation on the web about this?
This is unfortunately off-topic for StackOverflow as it is not a programming question, but Algolia just opened its own community forum!
You can send your question there: https://discourse.algolia.com/c/support
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Currently we have a website based on Pmwiki, which needs to be expanded. The idea is to combine it with a CMS, something like Joomla. So we keep the data and wiki functionalities, while introducing user authentication system, discussion forum and other features.
The question is, where should I start looking into the problem? Is there any books or blogs about how to combine web frameworks? Any suggestion will be really helpful!
PmWiki is a CMS, so depending upon what you want/need to do, you could extend PmWiki to do all of those things.
It comes with user authentication, and there are extensions ("recipes") for forums, blogs and other features.
Have a look at the entries under Administration which include a lot of variations on authentication (and other tasks).
You should also look at CMS category.
What is the best way to reach a live Microsoft developer on the phone who can answer technical questions about standardized OpenXML formats?
I have a paid MSDN support contract. I wanted to use one of my phone tickets but only production-related questions are eligible. For various reasons, I'm not interested in online support.
If this is the wrong place to ask this question, I'd appreciate a pointer in the right direction. I've been on the phone with Microsoft already and frankly I rely on StackOverflow more than Microsoft support.
Phone support is almost always paid for. One of the only ways you're going to get free phone support is find a Microsoft-employee-friend to give you a QuickAssist card.
Other than that, forums are the way to go.
The Office Open XML File Format Implementation forum is the place to ask your questions. Forewarning though - the responses can sometimes be incredibly slow as some of the folks manning the thread are not actually experts on Open XML but instead just try to read the ECMA spec to answer your questions. If you push hard enough, you may just have some luck though. (You'll see me on there as both "otaku" and "terlo").
The other place to ask questions that is "sponsored" by Microsoft is OpenXMLDeveloper.org. The forums you'd probably be interested in are at http://openxmldeveloper.org/discussions/formats/default.aspx. They don't seem to be regularly viewed by Microsoft though, but sometimes. There are other folks who try to answer questions though and do a decent job. (You'll see me on there as "tendoors").
Finally, Stackoverflow.com has some decent folks following OPENXML and OPENXML-SDK tags. You can try in all 3 locations if you like :)
I'd suggest you ask your question here, and in the Open XML Developer forum.
The msdn forums don't offer much knowledge of Open XML.
The Open XML Developer forums (http://openxmldeveloper.org/discussions/formats/default.aspx) employ people to answer your questions so you're somewhat guaranteed a response, however YMMV.
Here, you might just be surprised what people know.
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I'm wondering if there is an IDE for MongoDB that allows you to run queries and see the results? This would behave like query analyzer in SQL Server Management Studio. The issue I'm having right now is that I have to do queries, such as "db.MyTable.find()" from command prompt, which isn't a good solution.
If the answer is no, is there a more mature "no sql" solution like MongoDB that does have an IDE?
Another contender : http://www.robomongo.org/
Robo 3T (formerly Robomongo) give you a shell like interface but outputs your results in the gui.
Its available for windows, mac(dmg, zip) and linux (deb, rpm, tar.gz) as a desktop application. Currently there is a free community version (no ads, all features) and payed ones with more support and influence on backlog.
Robo 3T (formerly Robomongo) prints the results in a treeView or Json text representation and supports the generation of UUID (.NET-,Python-,Java-Encoding). It has autocomplete, shows multiple results at once and has a query history.
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For PHP, I'd recommend Rock Mongo. Solid, lots of great features, easy setup.
http://code.google.com/p/rock-php/wiki/rock_mongo
If you don't want to install anything ... you can use MongoHQ's web interface (even if you your MongoDB isn't on MongoHQ.)
https://mongohq.com/home
Windows
By far, the best UI (for Windows) currently out there is MongoVUE.
http://blog.mongovue.com/
Looks great, lots of features, and if you are new it will really help you get going ...
http://blog.mongovue.com/features/
Here's a Q&A with the author too if you are interested ...
http://learnmongo.com/posts/qa-ishann-kumar-creator-of-mongovue/
There is an official list of admin tools here: http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Admin+UIs
Still using MongoVue, (licensed version) but I find it too limited. An admin UI should provide you basic functionality like delete record by right click, set to null, insert data with picker, etc. Finally ended up writing updating json queries from the console.
While checking out mongodb admin tools page after my frustration with MongoVue, came across with the following. Don't quite like these all-in-one tools but I think I'll give it a try
http://www.nucleonsoftware.com/Products/Database-Master
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A client of ours is a membership organization and they are looking for functionality that seems closely aligned with Google Sites capabilities.
They want a system where their members can have a content managed site of their own that one or more admins can create by submitting a simple form.
The member organization could then add/remove pages, add/edit/remove content, add their own users, modify their color scheme and layout.
They would like the ability to have a url structure like, "member_org_url_to_be_named/member_name" - but it could also be subdomains (i.e. "member_name.member_org_url_to_be_named").
So they need a security hierarchy to be able to have different levels of users:
Admin - can add/edit/remove sites, users, etc.
Member Admin - can add/edit content within their site, add users that are also able to add/edit content within their site.
Member user - can add/edit content within their site.
From what I've seen and read, Google Sites seems to be able to handle this functionality. It's a little difficult to get in touch with someone there who would be able to tell me this definitively, however. So I'm wondering if there are any other platforms that might be able to handle this workflow.
Obviously, I'd love to hear from anyone who has implemented a system like this before. I'd also love to hear from anyone who has actually used Google Sites.
(Disclaimer: I work for Google. I don't know much about Sites though.)
Have you actually tried to use Google Sites for this? It strikes me that it shouldn't take very long to give it a whirl. If you have any Sites-specific questions, the Google Sites help centre and user forum are probably good starting places.
This sounds like content management with roles. Drupal fits this purpose pretty much perfectly.
http://drupal.org/
I've used Google Sites (the free "standard edition") a very little bit, it was easy to setup + easy to reconfigure my DNS records via nearlyfreespeech.net to setup CNAME and MX records to a domain I own.
The mailing list stuff works nicely. The site editing is very easy for anyone to use but a bit slllllooooowwww and somewhat clumsy, and doesn't appear to "play nicely" with the concept of uploading/downloading via FTP/SFTP/etc. I don't like the idea of my group's users spending all this time developing a website, that I can't backup or transfer to someone other than Google if I run into an issue.
I don't know if these issues are addressed in the pay version of Google Sites. For the moment I'm definitely keeping the email-mailing-list features going, but looking around elsewhere for something similar that works better.
(If you find something please post!)
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The company I work for is wanting to add blog functionality to our website and they were looking to spend an awful amount of money to have some crap being built on top of a CMS they purchased (sitecore). I pointed them to Telligent's Community Server and we had a sales like meeting today to get the Marketing folks on board.
My question is if anyone has had issues working with Community Server, skinning it and extending it?
I wanted to explain a bit why I am thinking Community Server, the company is wanting multiple blogs with multiple authors. I want to be out of the admin part of this as much as possible and didn't think there were too many engines that having multiple blogs didn't mean db work. I also like the other functionality that Community Server provides and think the company will find it useful, particularly the media section as right now we have some really shotty way of dealing with whitepapers and stuff.
edit: We are actually using the Sitecore blog module for a single blog on our intranet (which is actually what the CMS is serving). Some reasoning for why I don't like it for our public site are they are on different servers, it doesn't support multiple authors, there is no built in syndication, it is a little flimsy feeling to me from looking at the source and I personally think the other features of Community Server make its price tag worth it.
another edit: Need to stick to .net software that run on sql server in my company's case, but I don't mind seeing recommendations for others. ExpressionEngine looks promising, will try it out on my personal box.
I've done quite a few projects using Community Server. If you're okay with the out-of-the-box functionality, or you don't mind sticking to the version you start with, I think you'll be very happy.
The times I've run into headaches using CS is when the client wants functionality CS does not provide, but also insists on keeping the ability to upgrade to the latest version whenever Telligent releases an update. You can mostly support that by making all of your changes either in a separate project or by only modifying aspx/ascx files (no codebehinds). Some kind of merge is going to be required though no matter how well you plan it out.
Community Server itself has been very solid for me, but if all you need is a blogging engine then it may be overkill. Skinning it, for example, is quite a bit of work (despite their quite powerful Chameleon theme engine).
I'd probably look closer at one of the dedicated blog engines out there, like BlogEngine.NET, dasBlog or SubText, if that's all you need. Go with Community Server if you think you'll want more "community-focused" features like forums etc.
You can also take a look at Telligent Graffiti CMS.
http://graffiticms.com/
It supports multiple blogs and authors.
Update: It's now open source and available at http://graffiticms.codeplex.com/
Community Server 2008.5 lets you add several members that can post articles. Also with
Community Server 2008.5 you now have wiki's along with forums and the blogs. This probably has one of the better web based admin control panel's I seen in a while. This let's you easily change several things including the site's theme (or skin). To me it is one of the most scalable applications I have seen in a while. We are using it for our site http://knowledgemgmtsolutions.com.
Skinning is pretty straightforward, and the sidebar widgets aren't very difficult to create (if you don't mind building controls in code). The widgets also allow options for the users to customize them in the control panel very easily. I doubt you'll find a strong community of widget builders for Community Server however. Nothing compared to the dev community for blogs like wordpress.
I recommend starting templates from scratch and adding in CS controls as needed, to get the markup you prefer for styling and to use only what you need.
Setting up different roles for users to post to different blogs is also very easy and requires no coding. You can have blog groups, and allow only certain users to post to certain blogs.
Sitecore's Forum module is powered by Community Server and integrated with Sitecore CMS.
Expression Engine with the Multi-Site Manager works great for that kind of situation.
Have you had a look at the Shared Source blog module for Sitecore?