Blogs - May 2008

Below are the blog entries for May 2008:

Meet the Team - Uran Piedra

By Sam Beresford

Friday, May 9th, 2008 at 2:30pm

SAM BERESFORD:  Welcome to another edition of Hannon Hill’s ‘Meet the Team.’  Today we have Uran Piedra, who has recently joined the Hannon Hill team as a marketing intern.  Hi Uran, how are you?

URAN PIEDRA:  I’m doing well, thanks.

SAM BERESFORD:  So tell me, have you always been interested in Marketing?

URAN PIEDRA: Yes and no.  I spent my first few years of school at Georgia Tech majoring in Civil Engineering until I realized it really wasn’t for me.  I enjoyed it in theory, but the industry itself wasn’t where I saw myself in the future.  I always had an interest in Marketing and though I didn’t know much about it at the time, it definitely piqued my curiosity.  Now I realize it’s a great fit for me.  So far, I’ve enjoyed every aspect that I’ve encountered.

SAM BERESFORD: What kind of work were you doing before coming to Hannon Hill?

URAN PIEDRA: The last internship I had was at a supply chain software company where I assisted in the planning of their annual user conference in Miami, Florida.  Before that, I worked as an administrative assistant for several years to pay for school.

SAM BERESFORD:    How do you like it here so far?

URAN PIEDRA:  I’m beginning to get adjusted, and I’m really excited to be here.  The people are all so friendly, and the corporate culture is great.

SAM BERESFORD:   What do you look forward to doing most at Hannon Hill?

URAN PIEDRA: I’ve had some experience in event planning, particularly in planning a user conference, so I’m looking forward to helping out in that aspect.  I’m also really excited about the opportunity to write more.  I feel like that is something I can always improve on.

SAM BERESFORD:  That’s great.  You have an interesting name.  Where does it originate from?

URAN PIEDRA:  Oddly enough, it’s the name of a volcano in Costa Rica.

SAM BERESFORD:  Really? Is that where you’re from?

URAN PIEDRA: Well, I was born in Atlanta, but my father is Costa Rican so we lived there for about 4 years when I was very young.

SAM BERESFORD:  Oh, ok.  Do you think you’d ever move back there?

URAN PIEDRA:  No, probably not.  I had a blast there as a kid, but you can’t beat the opportunities we have in this country.

SAM BERESFORD:  Well, that wraps up this edition of ‘Meet the Team.’  Thanks for talking with us today, Uran.

URAN PIEDRA: No problem.  Thanks for having me!

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• News

The College of William & Mary Setting the Bar with Communication during Site Redesign and CMS Selection Process

By Blaine Herman

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008 at 12:30pm

Hannon Hill is pleased to announce the signing of one of our newest clients, The College of William & Mary.  The decision to purchase Cascade Server was just a portion of William & Mary's effort to "reassert" their "web presence".  The project was code named re.web;  more information about the re.web initiative, and the depth of their CMS research and analysis can be found here: http://www.wm.edu/reweb/. William & Mary's effort with the re.web blog has not gone unrecognized.  Last week, they received word that they are one of three nominees for the eduStyle awards.  Our hats go off to everyone involved in the CMS planning, selection, and implementation process at William & Mary, as they continue to take proactive and unprecedented steps in improving their university's web content management process.

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• New Customers

Powerful Tools One Click away with Cascade Server Firefox Extension

By Syl Turner

Friday, May 2nd, 2008 at 4:00pm

Cascade Server is very simple to navigate through already, but some of us power developers need a few more shortcuts. Sure, we have access keys (Alt-E to edit, Alt-S to submit, etc.), but some of us are clickers. That’s why the Cascade Server Firefox Extension was created!

Features

Now, you can easily right-click on an asset and it provides numerous asset options! View, Edit, Copy, Delete and Publish is now only one click away, instead of two!

This works anywhere there’s a link to the asset, too. So if a page is linked within the content, you can right-click on the link to reveal the same options!

That’s not all! If you’d like to easily create a new default asset, just right-click anywhere, go to the “New Asset” menu, and select one of the default assets to create a brand new one!

What’s that? There’s more?! Yes! Now, if you know what asset you’d like to go to, just right-click, go to “Go To Asset…” and a new dialog box appears where you can type the absolute path to any asset, or administrative entity, to go directly to it! You can also press F4 to open the dialog box!

I know. I know. You can’t believe it. There are so many useful features, there can’t be anymore, right? Wrong! We have added additional functionality to the Bulk Change tool! On the list of assets screen during a bulk change, right click to reveal the Bulk Change menu! It allows you to select only certain types of assets, even based on regular expressions!

We still have two more features that are helpful! If there are a lot of workflows sitting on the workflow screen, and you’d like to delete them all, just right-click and go to “Delete All Workflows.” If successful, a dialog box will tell you how many workflows have been deleted.

 

We have one more feature! Similar to deleting all the workflows, you can now delete all the publish jobs in the queue! Go to the publisher status page (Tools -> Publisher -> Active), right-click and go to “Delete All Publish Jobs.” Again, a dialog box will appear if the deletion is successful.

Additional Information

This extension will not allow your users to bypass any security or access rights restrictions. For example, the “Edit” option may still appear on the right-click menu, but if you don’t have access to edit, you won’t be allowed to access the edit screen.

We have found that there are some display issues on Firefox for Mac, where some icons don’t appear. These are only style issues, though. The functionality still works.

This extension works on Firefox 2.0 and higher. We will continue to work on the extension by adding new features and fixing any issues that may appear. However, this is NOT supported by Hannon Hill. Any questions to Hannon Hill about how to use it, any issues that annoy you, etc., will be ignored. This is only a side project and cannot be supported. Feel free to send us feedback or use JIRA to suggest new features, and we may add them on future releases.

We make no guarantees with this extension! Keep that in mind.

Download the Cascade Server Firefox Extension

*Extension Credits: Martin Robinson and Syl Turner, with a very special thanks Andy Gardner, Joel Stevens, Brett Goodwin, Artur Tomusiak, and Steven Pease for all their suggestions and debugging ability.

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• Resources

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