Were excited to announce that SureTech.com has a new product!  Our Hosted Exchange SureMail service now has the ability to provide SharePoint to our clients.

What is SharePoint:

SharePoint is a feature of our hosted Exchange SureMail product and can be provisioned for SureMail Advanced users if the Organization subscribes to SharePoint.

SharePoint provides a single infrastructure to share documents with colleagues, manage projects with partners and publish information to customers.  It allows you to build no-code solutions to business needs.  You can provide access to information in databases, reports and business applications.  It offers a collaboration tool and content management easy.  You can establish compliance measures such as retention policies and automatic content sorting and then let people work naturally in Microsoft Office.  The search feature uses a combination of relevance, refinement and social cues to assist with finding information and contacts needed.

We offer 2 SharePoint plans, SharePoint Foundation 2010 and SharePoint Enterprise 2010.  SharePoint Enterprise provides scalability, large companies or smaller companies anticipating large growth may need, this information will be provided by Sales.

This update will include some security enhancements and bug fixes to the software running the web server.

If you have any questions, do not hesitate to email solutions@suretech.com.

The BNI Tigers Networking Group is hosting a Wine Tasting Networking event on Wednesday, Oct 12^th 2011.  Come say hello to your friends at SureTech and meet some other great area businesses.  Click HERE to register.   

SureTech.com is proud to be a presenting sponsor of the 10th Annual Arts Council of Princeton's Dining by Design event on November 5, 2011. 

This unique event supports ACP's community education and outreach programs including ArtReach and Arts Exchange programs.  

We hope you can join us at this lovely event.   

-The SureTech.com Team

SureTech.com is proud to support the 30^th Annual Princeton Trade Fair this Monday, Sept 26^th 2011.  This event will be held at the Westin Princeton at Forrestal Village and goes from 11 am to 4 pm.  Come say hello to your friends at SureTech and meet some of our Business Solutions partners and clients (you can also get some good eats - see who'll be there!)

The Arts Council of Princeton Awards SureTech.com the Pride of the Arts Council Business Award.  The award ceremony will take place at the Arts Council's annual meeting on Thursday, June 16 at 7 PM.

This software update will include some minor performance enhancements.

If you have any questions, do not hesitate to email solutions@suretech.com.

For getting attention, the only thing more reliable than a train reck is a historic international train wreck like the killing of Osama Bin Laden.

Looking at the bloody pictures is so natural, impuslive and reliable that criminals have a perfect opportunity to capitalize on it before the real pictures are shown.

BEWARE OF BIN LADEN IS DEAD PICS

The email below from facebook is almost impossible to ignore, but it is a TROJAN HORSE designed to download a malicious program to your computer or facebook account.  My friend below clicked on a similar link which then took over her Facebook address book and sent out the email below to her friends.  Also the pics it's refering to are FAKE.

TO SEE THE REAL PICS

You are connected to the internet, trust me, you will know as soon as the real pictures are released.  you won't have to click on a special link, accept a download or agree to any terms.  The pictures will be on the new york times, cnn and major newspapers easily and publicly.  If someone sends you a special attachment in email you can safely ignore it, but you cannot safely open it.

This software update will include minor enhancements to the HTML editor and the newsletter.

If you have any questions, do not hesitate to email solutions@suretech.com.

• Go to http://YOURDOMAIN/login

Admin Menu

• Got to http://YOURDOMAIN/Admin_Menu

This offers links to lots of helpful tools

We performed the needed maintenance from 2:15 am to 3:45 am March 23 to minimize the inconvenience to our customers.  

During this maintenance period all incoming mail will held and delivered once the system was back up.  All updates have been successfully completed.  

Should you have any questions about the above, please let us know at solutions@suretech.com

Best regards,

- Your SureTech.com Solutions Team

This is the groundbreaking release of SureDesk service that after 14 months of testing and experience finally meets our total requirements for performance, customization AND low flat fee subscription cost.  All new users will be rolled out on this new infrastructure going forward and existing customers will be moved at no cost over the next few months. 

New Benefits

• Up to 300% increase in Internet Connectivity from the SureDesk
• Windows 7 theme
• Faster graphics acceleration and noticeably more responsive performance  
• Centrally managed updates for maximum stability and maintenance cost predictability
• We continue to build on Citrix's latext XenDesk and XenApp enterprise solutions.  Click here for more information about Citrix.
• Expanded default app list including: FireFox, Pidgin, FireFox Download, Internet Explorer 8 Download -  Note: Without the Google toolbar.  Flash Player Download - Adobe acrobat reader - Sliverlight Download (for both FF and IE), Windows desktop search download - .Net Framework 3.5 Download - LastPass Download -  Evernote -  Filezilla Download - Putty Download, Pidgin IRC Client

Fixes

• Largely eliminated lag time and completely eliminated redraw issues

Known Issues and RFEs

• As always, bandwidth issues are the key achiles heel of the service - service ...

12/17/2010 - Release to Production

Features and Enhancements

Performance Optimization

Users and Groups

Making and Editing Posts

Load Testing and Infrastructure Development 

New Features

- SJWorks.org - Website scraping for updating organizations
 

Bug Fixes

- Groups are created as private email lists by default
- Menu help text made more descriptive
- History for groups works fully
- Add user dialog from browsing users is now the correct height
- Updates to templates for google urchin changes
 

Create a Section

• Go to the Admin Panel Section Tags

• Create a New Section...

Create a Section List

• Add a section list (listofposts) called Section Name (more...) with only 2, 3 or 4 items listed and affiliate it with the Section you just created

• Add a custom link to the listofposts to Section Name using the correct format with a leading /

• Add a section list (list of posts) called Section Name with unlimited items.  Affiliate it with the Section by the same name.

• Add a link to the section in the main menu in an appropriate location

You will need to upload the image you want to have as your banner by going to nameofyoursite/new/banner

• All logos should be designed in two parts with the right side capable of being replaced with custom banner ads when appropriate
• Dimensions for the left banner ad should be 590x90 on left and 275x90 on right

Once your Logo is uploaded to the site:

To customize the look of your banners, go to Admin Menu Site Menu and Layout

Find Main Logo and click Choose...

Search for the name of the image you uploaded
Select Choose for that image

If you have a banner you want on the right hand site of the site, on the same Site Layout page
Next to Banner click Change....
Search for the name of the image you uploaded
Select Choose for that image

• Click on the Edit button you see in the main page .
• Then select choose for the column you want to add something to (left or right). 
• Then on the next screen in the title field type in the name of the page you want to find.
• When you find it in the search results down below click the add button next to it and then see it in the top part of the screen in the list of items for the column.
• You can order the items up or down if you want one block above or below the other one.
• Then you are all set and can return to the home page to see the result.

• Type /NAME OF PAGE you want to link to from the menu in the order you want on the menu. 
  • NOTE: If you don't want the name of the page to be the wording for the menu, simply take the page number (every page on the system has a unique number you can see in the browser window when you are on that page)
• Then you can customize the name of the page using the following format:

       /PAGENUMBER | PAGE NAME YOU WANT

• For sub menu items, simply put an * in front of the page name, for example
  / | Home
  */5333 | About Us

1. See Recent Posts link in the Admin Menu.
   • One by one open up each spam post in a new browser window.
     • On a Mac, hold down the Apple key while you click on the post..
     • On a PC hold down the Ctrl key while you click on each post.
   • You'll now have a bunch of browser windows with each of the spams open.
2. Now you select delete for each post.
   • To quickly get to the next browser window to make this process quick
     • On a Mac, Ctrl  and the Page Down key get you to the next browser page.
     • On a PC, the Ctrl and Tab buttons take you the next browser page.
3. Quickly go through each page and click delete.

All spam removed!

Note: BE SURE THIS IS THE PERSON YOU WANT TO REMOVE BY CHECKING THE EMAIL ADDRESS.  SOMETIMES PEOPLE CAN HAVE THE SAME NAME. 

If you would like more information about the site, please contact us! 

• All you need to do is go to that page on the site
• Click the History button in the editing tools and you will see all the previous versions of that page

• Click on the time and date of the version you want to revert back to
• When the page opens, click Edit and then click Save
• You have now replaced the more recent version with the previous version (what was the most recent version now becomes the second most recent version....)

• Click Copy, you will see a full copy of the event post with all the details so all you need to do is change the date for the second date the event is occurring and click save.
• Follow step 3 above for all dates of the recurring event.

DATE - Release to QA Testing

DATE - Release to Production

Ticket List to be completed

Features and Enhancements

Performance Optimization

Users and Groups

Making and Editing Posts

Load Testing and Infrastructure Development 

Bug Fixes

• In the Admin Menu click allUsers
• Search for the User Name
• Click on User Name
• Click Manage Subscriptions link at bottom

• Check or uncheck the mailing group(s)

To edit a user information (address, password, change email)

• In the Admin Menu click allUsers
• Search for the User Name
• Click edit on the far right column (cloumn title is user info) next to user name
• Update information and click save

To remove a user from the system altogether (strongly unadvised since they could accidentally then get added back in and readded to a mailing list they already asked to be removed from)

• Be SURE it is the right user
• Find their exact User ID by Searching for User by Name and you will see User ID next to their name in search
• Email solutions@suretech.com to ask for that user ID to be removed from the system.  Include the user name so we can do a cross check when we remove.

First find the banner image on the site by one of the following methods from the Admin Menu:

• Site Content and Layout
  • Click on the link for the banner (do not click change, that would mean you want to select a different banner not edit this one)
• Search all.PHP
  • Type class banner
  • Click on the banner you want to edit from the list
• allClasses
  • Under category Ads
  • Click List
  • You get a list of all the banners in the system and you can click on the one you want to edit
    

• After getting to the banner using one of the methods above click Edit
  
• If you want to change where the banner is linking, you can edit the Link
  
• If you want to edit the image, you can upload a new file and replace the existing banner image

Upload a New Banner

First find the banner image on the site by one of the following methods from the Admin Menu:

• Site Content and Layout
  • Click on the link for the banner (do not click change, that would mean you want to select a different banner not edit this one)
• Search all.PHP
  • Type class banner
  • Click on the banner you want to edit from the list
• allClasses
  • Under category Ads
  • Click List
  • You get a list of all the banners in the system and you can click on the one you want to edit
    

• After getting to the banner using one of the methods above click Edit
  
• If you want to change where the banner is linking, you can edit the Link
  
• If you want to edit the image, you can upload a new file and replace the existing banner image

Upload a New Banner

I always hate ads that distract from good content - except when it's that one thing I'm interested in.  But that's not when I want to look at it!

In the old days when we only had to keep track of 7 things a week, we clipped the ad and put it on the fridge.  But now it's 900 things and never in paper of course?  Finally we can clip for later:  

This software update will include enhancements to the uploading function for member lists.

If you have any questions, do not hesitate to email solutions@suretech.com.

11/11/2010 - Release to Production

Features and Enhancements

New Features

Customized searching on a per-site basis with the advsearch object.

 Performance Optimization

Users and Groups

Editing group properties creates history.

Groups can have extended properties on a per-site basis.

 Making and Editing Posts

 Check to see if the listofposts link has a begnning / or not and add one if necessary.

 Display and Layout

Extra div added to ResultSet to allow for better formatting.

 Load Testing and Infrastructure Development 

Bugs Fixed

Error in theme code for WWBC that only was an issue for administrators.

Popup windows could appear above the top of the window if the screen was smaller than the popup.

Installing on a non-production machine could crash while updating a cache.

This software update will include enhancements to the groups and searching functionality.

• Click on the picture image  in the content editor tool bar.
• If the image you want to use is already on the server click Browse in the Image Info tab and search for the image file name.
  
• If it is NOT on the server, In the Image Properties pop up box click on the Upload tab.
  

• Click Browse...
• Find the image you want to upload
• Click Send it to the Server
• On the first tab, Image Info, of the Image Properties pop up window the newly uplaoded image should automatically appear in the URL field.
  
• Select the size you want the image to be
• Choose if you want the image aligned left, right center, etc.  
• Click Ok at bottom of Pop Up Window
• If the image does not look like you want it to, click on the image and click on the Picture Window again and you can edit the size or orientation of the image.
  

Click on the globe icon  in the content editor tool bar type in the domain you want to link to. 

• If you need to edit the link just click on the text where the link is (dont rehighlight) and then click on the globe icon  and you can edit the link.  
• To link to an internal page on your site, you can just type /pagenumber to link to the page within the your own site.

This software update will include some performance improvements and minor enhancements.

As chocolate lovers, we could not be happier to support a client that makes the most exquisite and delectable chocolate we've ever had.

In this age of constant change why do most budgets contain very little room for improving efficiency and communications?

Because most IT budgets are maintaining 90% of what they don't need to get the 10% the actually use.

SureTech.com's mission is to allow you to share the basic infrastructure that doesn't provide core value to your business, and allow you to focus your budet on the innovation and efficiency that let's you be the best in the world at what you do, instead needing each of our customers to also be best in the world at managing equipment and networks.

You're right, you are overwhelmed.

Essentially infinitely overwhelmed, in fact.

The cost of diseminating information is nearly zero, so information you could never have imagined 20 years ago now finds its way to you.  Storing information is very cheap, so information you would have physically HAD to throw away 20 years ago, now stays with you.

Overwhelmed doesn't even capture the extent of the imbalance between you and the information coming your way, anihalated would be more accurate if it were a battle.

Your only option is not to give up, but fighting is futile.

Even organizing the data is impossible, managing the data flow is impossible.

Here's a graph to show you the futility of managing data:

 A zettabyte is sextillion bytes. That's 21 zeros, kids. Add one zero to get the number of actual information bits.  

For comparison your brain (if you just said no in high school) has about 100 billion cells (11 zeros).  If each cell tried to keep just one bit of data, and that's all your brain did, and didnt' keep track of who you loved, what you wanted to do or take space to admire a sunset, you'd be 11 zeros short of keeping track of the data out there today, and you'd be FALLING FURTHER BEHIND EVERY MINUTE.

Give up trying to store it, don't track it, enjoy ignrorance of 20 zeros and leave space for what you love.

How can yo do this?  How can you let go of information coming at you?  Well for one, ...

The iPad just unveiled by Apple offers incredible new potential for the mobile office.  While it's being touted for it's video/music/gaming possibilities - we see huge potential for the business realm.  

I tend to like to write on my keyboard on my lap or on a lap bench... 

October 8, 2009 - via the Wall Street Journal

By Walter Mossberg

In just two weeks, on Oct. 22, Microsoft's long operating-system nightmare will be over. The company will release Windows 7, a faster and much better operating system than the little-loved Windows Vista, which did a lot to harm both the company's reputation, and the productivity and blood pressure of its users. PC makers will rush to flood physical and online stores with new computers pre-loaded with Windows 7, and to offer the software to Vista owners who wish to upgrade.

 

Windows 7, A Successful Successor to Vista

8:19

WSJ's Personal Technology columnist Walt Mossberg reviews Windows 7, the successor to one of the least successful versions of Microsoft's operating system, Windows Vista.

With Windows 7, PC users will at last have a strong, modern successor to the sturdy and familiar, but aged, ...

With locations in  New York, Pittsburg, Chicago, Florida, Virginia and the UK, our hosted services are managed, secure, distributed and redundant to protect your data and provide peace of mind. 

We are proud to announce our latest hosting partnership with HostWay^® Global Web Solutions at their new state-of-the-art Boeing Data Center.

Located at 100 North Riverside Plaza, in Boeing Internationals modern skyscraper, the facility is in the heart of downtown Chicago. With 36 stories and almost 1 million square feet of office space, the building is home to Boeing Internationals world headquarters. The data center will occupy a space originally built out for $200 million. Hostway is investing an additional $10 million to ensure the data center meets the leading industry standards for security, network availability, fire suppression and power capacity.

Take a tour! 

Reliable 

Source: The New York Times

How was I so easily fooled? Looking back, I should have seen that in our last hours together my drive was not at all well. It was only putting on a brave face — preparing to die.

“Do you back up?” Kane asked.

I told the truth: “Never.”

I had photos and songs on my drive, and I also had Word-file diaries...

Not surprisingly, online data storage can generate a bit of queasiness. Lawyers have an ethical responsibility to protect client information from inadvertently falling into the hands of inappropriate others; failing to carry through with that duty can generate unfortunate repercussions.

A lawyer's immediate reaction, then, might be to completely dismiss the idea of online storage, …

On the other hand, the same lawyer may never think twice about attaching a document to an e-mail message and sending it swirling around the open 'net.

MATURING ALTERNATIVE
Cloud computing is maturing into a plausible alternative…Contrary to what many believe, online storage ...]]> Dana Molina topazgroup Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:49:02 -0400 http://www.topaz.net/12503/WEB_STORAGE_Cloud_Computing http://www.topaz.net/12384/Sharing_workspaces_with_others Sure, using Office Live Workspace beta to create project workspaces and add documents is convenient. But to share your workspaces with others—now that’s just plain smart.

Weve always said that Managed Services for IT is usually a flawed business model.  Pretty much the better job you do the less you make.  Kinda like lawyers, I guess, except at least we talk about it!

13 hours to reformat and upgrade a client laptop is the perfect example of providing GREAT service at a TERRIBLE value.  I worked over a long day and night replacing the hard drive of this particular laptop.  Theres no question the client got a lot of benefit.   3.5x more storage space, 3x improvement in speed.  And almost no worries he handed me the laptop in the morning and came back for it the next day fully upgraded.  I couldnt save him from a couple headaches, though he had to hunt down passwords that needed to be reached in his browser .... and he had to see my 13 hour bill!  Which points to the value problem the work took 13 hours, but no one wants to pay labor of 13 hours for 3.5x space and  3x speed.  Think of it this way the 320GB drive cost less than $100 and the 3x speed was just getting the computer back to the speed it was the day he bought it.  Who wants to pay almost the cost of the computer to simply set (or in this case reset) it up?

Ill tell you: nobody.  But whats the alternative?  It takes hours and hours to set these things up so we as a ...

Organizations are increasingly looking to next-generation social networking tools to conduct sophisticated business intelligence and analytics. In many cases, they are mining data and looking for trends and patterns, such as which salesperson has the relationships to pull off a deal or which customers seem to have the biggest influence with others online.

Cloud computing environments will contribute to the expansion of SaaS into areas beyond ERP, CRM and HR management systems. Rob DeSisto, analyst for Gartner, says organizations increasingly see the benefits of moving large-scale software expenses from the capital budget to the operating budget.

Saavy IT managers are now looking for ways to automate and embed security and compliance processes across the value chain, including on mobile devices. Surprisingly, a key challenge is one of perception, not technology. Companies must get over the idea that security and compliance systems are simply insurance against problems, and that they dont improve the business in ...

It's powered by Postini, so the back end looks good. But, I like to try these things out before rolling them out to customers. So, I decided I'd sign up my business domain for the service. I get a little bit of spam, generally it's caught by the filters in Outlook or on my server. I was using StartLogic, which I'd been signed up with for about five years. To make a long story short, after much gnashing of teeth and trying different things, it turns out that StartLogic's mail servers can't handle the Google Message Filtering service. I believe it has to do with the way the MX records are described and how StartLogic figures out which domain the mail belongs to, but I'm not sure.

So, I decided ...

09/09/2008 - Release to Production

Ticket List to be completed

Features and Enhancements

Performance Optimization

Users and Groups

•  Site groups have been removed from the subscription list.
• Site groups no longer appear in a user's "member of" list.

Making and Editing Posts

Load Testing and Infrastructure Development 

• suretech.com is now a top-level site rather than under massmind.com
• The first cut of a theme system is in place.

Bug Fixes

• T20080807.0010 - Duplicate error messages removed from the autouserinnput.

6/28/2008 - Release to Production

Features and Enhancements

Performance Optimization

Users and Groups

• The basic ability to have people sign a master service agreement was added. This is a feature that is not particularly generalized and will be improved upon.
•  

Making and Editing Posts

Load Testing and Infrastructure Development 

Bug Fixes

•  Queuing up mailings should now be fixed.

As programmers, we have often been tricked into thinking that we should be writing code all the time and anything less and were not being productive enough. I know I often struggle between writing code which I enjoy, have some skill in, and can easily see my results and doing other important project tasks.

When I was working on Word for Windows 6.0 (and there's a whole 'nother story about why it was numbered 6.0 rather than 3.0, since it followed Word for Windows 2.0 the short quote is 6 is larger than 3) Chris Peters (who has since left Microsoft and brought the PBA back into prominence) at one of our team meetings made it clear to us that, in order to ship Word 6.0 we needed to remember that our job wasnt to write code or test code or any of those things. Our job was to ship Word 6.0. Now often that would mean, as developers, we should write some code (or fix some bugs) but we needed to think each day about what we could do that day to help ship Word 6.0. Some days that would mean not writing new code (and new code is the worst it has to be tested, localized, documented, etc.). Sometimes, the best way to finish the project would be to talk with our program manager and see about cutting a ...

Sanitizing Input Strings

Most developers are aware of SQL Injection attacks and know how important it is to sanitize input strings such as names, email addresses and any other content. (kxcd has a very funny cartoon about such exploits). Steve Friedl has a good article on how attackers find such holes in your applications. It's critical for web application security that you make sure inputs are properly escaped before using them in database queries. Perhaps in a future post I'll talk about some strategies for doing that more effectively. And remember that you must sanitize all input, not just strings. Sure, you have a <select> list to allow the user to pick which type of pizza they want and you've given them numbers (1 = cheese, 2 = sausage, 3 = veggie combo, etc.) but that doesn't stop someone from sending you a request where the pizza type is a string with instructions to change the admin email address to their own.

Preventing Problematic Output

But it's not just SQL Injection attacks we must be concerned about with sanitizing user input. What happens to your application if a user can put HTML in their ...

Join me June 23, 2008 for a very interesting discussion on society, business and technology:

Topic:       Thriving in the New Social Internet

Speakers:  Dr. Charles Kreitzberg. Alberto Molina, Anne Kreitzberg
Location:  Sante Fe Grille Upstairs private dining room
Date:       Monday June 23, 2008
Time:       6:00 8:00 PM
Suggested Contribution:  $15 per person for room, appetizers, beer, soft drinks, tax + tip* 

Overview:

The new social world of the internet represents far more than finding a friend on Facebook or keeping a diary online for anyone to see. New Web technology, also referred to as social media or Web 2.0, is unstoppably shifting the way we communicate and interact with each other for business. The question is not if this affects you, but how will you fit in?  Will you be a wallflower or the center of the party? The panel will discuss new opportunities and challenges for companies in this dynamic environment.   Our focus will be presenting ways your business can understand, approach and thrive in this new social and communications landscape.  Don't miss out on this opportunity to leverage your understanding of web social architecture and how you can make this changing landscape work for you and your organization!

My main audience at this point is the development staff at Topaz Group. We are separated both by space and time. By space, because we are spread out and do not share offices or even the same area code. By time because I know there will be new developers coming after me, some of whom may join only after I leave. And while there will be development documents and design documents that may be private, I also want to write about how one does a good job of developing software.

Obviously, by making this public, I also hope that there will eventually be other readers (and, once we advance the tool some, we'll even turn on comments so you can make yourselves known). As with the Topaz Group developers, I would hope that I have some words of wisdom to new developers.

I've been in the business of developing software for over twenty years now (and "writing computer programs" for over thirty years if you take a broad definition of that phrase. Perhaps later I'll write down some of my early experiences for historical sake) and I've had the opportunity to learn from some remarkable people and make some mistakes, which helps the learning process. So, I'd like to pass on that learning to whomever is interested. Hopefully you'll find some of it useful and you'll come back to read more.

Last time I reviewed one of two books on security that I had recently read. This time I'll review the other book - Secure Coding: Princeiples & Practices by Mark G. Graff and Kenneth R. van Wyk (and published by O'Reilly which puts out excellent books in general).

This is a great book which I would recommend developers, testers and managers read. Even operations folks could get something out of this book. It's a different book from the Security Development Lifecycle in many ways. It's shorter and doesn't provide the step-by-step methods that SDL does. It is very easy reading, with just a few coding samples. It provides some great real-life examples of security flaws and some creative solutions.

Graff and van Wyk give you a lot of things to think about and some problems to avoid and ways to do things right.

One of their better suggestions is to come up with a metaphor of your application (or a particular feature) when you are designing the architecture. Rather than thinking about people making seat reservations (for an on-line ticketing system, for example) come up with a different model and think about how someone might attack that. Because, they point out, someone attacking you isn't necessarily following your model and architectural security flaws are the most difficult to solve.

This is another book I'd suggest you read and have on your shelf.

The meat of the book (Part II)  is an explanation of the stages of the Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) process. The authors do a good job of explaining these steps and how you can implement them in your own project. I think the SDL is a great process for improving the security of a software project and would suggest anyone who is concerned about the security of their software project (which should be just about everyone working on a significant software project) should read this book.

I would recommend this book for managers and developers (even though the authors point out it is not a book with code samples and examples of how to write better code). I believe if developers know more about the how security issues crop up and can be handled, they will be better equipped to write solid code.

1. check the latest completed ticket report
2. fill in the entries under Features and Enhancements
   and Bug Fixes using the latest closed ticket information
3. Follow the QA Test Plan before publishing to Production

• "Unique Opened" and "Open Rate" under represent the number of unique recipients because they count only successful pings to our servers.  Blackberries, text only readers and all mail readers where the user does not select "download pictures" are not counted.

• Total opened includes every time the email is opened and read.  Our experience is the actual  number of  readers is somewhere between "Unique" and "Total" and the actual open rate is at least 50% higher than the reported "Open Rate". 

• Let your users know about the new edits to your site, and more importantly encourage your users to contribute content to the site.
• Content for the e-blasts can be selected by choosing content posts on the site you want to include. 

Instructions for Version Releases

April 25, 2008 - Release to QA Testing

May 1, 2008 - Release to Production

Ticket List To Be Completed

Reference Ticket List

Features and Enhancements

Performance Optimization

• Site Performance: Query Counts on homepage down to #?

Making and Editing Posts

• Comments on Posts

Users and Groups

 Load Testing and Infrastructure Development 

Bug Fixes

Instructions for Version Releases

1. check the latest completed ticket report
2. copy this post in a new post
3. fill in the entries below using the latest closed ticket information
4. Add the new Release Notes to the section "Release Notes"
5.  
6. delete these instructions
7. Make a new entry in the Release Notes Summary Document that links to the new Release Notes
8. Follow the QA Test Plan before publishing to Production

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• If the system doesnt have you logged in at that point just login using the login button at the top left of the screen (you know you are logged in when it says Welcome YOUR NAME at the very top left of the screen.
• When you are logged in you will be able to edit all the posts you have created.

Features and Enhancements

Performance

Application Core

• Document Objekt2 and TableAccessors
• Add data sharing info to groups and relationships
• Join Groups
• Subscribe.php should not default to text only email
• add OnceClickClubs, SiteID 57 to point not copy on NewSite
• add copy to edit links
• show groups to members of groups
• Create a master topazport.css

Posts and Mailings

• add password and wrapper to subscribe.php
• Bounce code should use known values as first line of lookup
• Unpublish should become republish when an item has already been unpublished
• expire events after they are done adjustment
• Add HTML purifier to FCKEditorInput Class
• listofposts byline and read links like newsletter

Users and Groups

• Group view users, user profile view, browse users
• View content byuser and bygroup
• Groups/User Content and view permissions refining
• Fixes for User Profile
• Change the profile toggle options to Private and Members Only
• Showing a group roster
• New group roster browser
• Viewing a user's personal information should follow the settings for the user and the group
• new/group automation support
• URL to list content associated with users and groups

Bug Fixes

• Wrapper not applied to autouseremployment objekt
• yaamny calendar erases past dates
• Group Edit page missing data fields on yaamny.net
• No ID supplied message when adding a subgroup
• Non-admins can edit unpublished posts
• edit/Subscriptions.php should create an autouser
• event type defaults to first in list
• List of Fixes for Cyprian.
• Order Groups in Group drop down by Alphabet
• Group permissions issues
• Problem with list of posts when days are large
• Add History to HTML Objekt
• Fix image display on Yaamny
• Issue with copied content not keeping sections
• Group View Permissions Update
• Joining Already Joined SQL error
• Site admins having site ...

Released for QA Testing on 2/17/2008

Released to Production on DATE

Features and Enhancements

Performance

•  Initial performance work for direct access to static elements.

Users and Groups

• Group creation adds group creator to group as manager.
• Initial support for notification of new members to a group.
• Correctly hide group information if the group is view by members only.
•  you can now use one un/pw to login across sites
• you can now join groups on other sites on a network

Making and Editing Posts

•  Added Copy command to many posts.

Other

• Changed encoding of unsubscribe link to be more resiliant to email transport.
• Many collection.php improvements.
• Popup login form for email/password logins.

Bugs

Released on 12/5/07

New Features and Enhancements

Performance

User Management

Site Editing

One Click Clubs offers state of the art online community relationship management capabilities to membership  based organizations.  Requiring only a web browser with access to the internet, an organization will be able to provide the modern features expected by online users to interact with each other and the organization.

It will be possible for organizations to install a single website, and also for umbrella organizations to install networks with sub-sites for member organizations with syndication to the larger umbrella.

The beta period will include two networks:

1. YaleNet, including the initial sites Yale Alumni Association of Metroplitan New York, the Yale Latino Alumni and The Yale Club of New Haven
2. Dwight Hall, the center for public service and social justice, which includes over 100 member groups

All of the beta sites are for groups that encourage interactive websites and support member-driven contributions.

OneClickClubs comes out of 3 years of volunteer work managing a true virtual community with Yale Alumni Association of Metroplitan New York which now boasts over 10,000 visits permonth and over 30 distinct user-driven posts.
 

Topaz Group Ventures Inc. is a boutique creative studio dedicated to building interactive tools and entertainment online.  Topaz has three areas of business expertise built around our interest in games and online publishing of both editorial and user generated content.

One Click Clubs offers state of the art online community relationship management capabilities to membership  based organizations.  Requiring only a web browser with access to the internet, an organization will be able to provide the modern features expected by online users to interact with each other and the organization.

It will be possible for organizations to install a single website, and also for umbrella organizations to install networks with sub-sites for member organizations with syndication to the larger umbrella.

The beta period will include two networks:

1. YaleNet, including the initial sites Yale Alumni Association of Metroplitan New York, the Yale Latino Alumni and The Yale Club of New Haven
2. Dwight Hall, the center for public service and social justice, which includes over 100 member groups

All of the beta sites are for groups that encourage interactive websites and support member-driven contributions.

OneClickClubs comes out of 3 years of volunteer work managing a true virtual community with Yale Alumni Association of Metroplitan New York which now boasts over 10,000 visits permonth and over 30 distinct user-driven posts.
 

Topaz Group Ventures Inc. is a boutique creative studio dedicated to building interactive tools and entertainment online.  Topaz has three areas of business expertise built around our interest in games and online publishing of both editorial and user generated content.

• To get a new password click Login at the very top of the site.
• Click Need password?  
• Fill in your email address and hit send.
• Click on the link in your email.
• Voila!
   

DATE - Release to QA Testing

DATE - Release to Production

Ticket List to be completed

Features and Enhancements

Performance Optimization

Users and Groups

Making and Editing Posts

Load Testing and Infrastructure Development 

Bug Fixes

New Features and Enhancements

SIte Editing

• We now have an article object that uses the WYSIWYG FCKEditor. This makes it much easier for non-techies to create posts.

<style type='text/css'>
sytle from .css

</style>

Or like this within a div:

style="border: 1px; "

An example:

class .intro

Rather than a mass customer base, advertising on these blogs gives lobbyists unbridled access to an extremely valuable audience: Britains political elite

<font style="margin:0px; margin-bottom: 9px; padding:0px; font-size:16px; color: #990000; font-weight:normal; line-height: 23px;">&lsquo;Rather than a mass customer base, advertising on these blogs gives lobbyists unbridled access to an extremely valuable audience: Britain&rsquo;s political elite&rsquo;</font>

• Add Photos to profiles - yalenet council
• list users like ning or facebook - yalenet council

Posts

• add a comment / discussion capability to post pages - yalenet council

• Look for the date when the post was last working successfully
• Click the date part of that selection
• Verify it looks correct when you view that page
• Then hit Edit on that version of the page
• Click Save at the bottom of the page.
  If you follow the above and save it, it returns you to whatever previous version you wanted.

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