With the release of Graffiti 1.1, I decided to upgrade mandown.co.nz to the latest version. I run the update against mandown.co.nz, rebuilt the pages and tested this. Once everything was working ok, I decided to upgrade the archives. The archives are now running Graffiti 1.1. Hopefully this should be faster and stable. Remember my current website is http://mandown.co.nz and this is just an archived...

My new website mandown.co.nz has been running very well over the last few months. I have been making quite a few improvements with loads more still to come. I have some cool ideas in mind so I will try and get those implemented when I can. Community Server 2007.1 was becoming quite a hassle to manage and just main, also it was slower so today I decided to migrate my archives to Graffiti using the migrator tool Telligent has provided. The entire process was seemless and it didn’t take long at all. Now I have two websites on the same platform which makes life quite a bit more easier to...

I have decided to archive scrappad and start fresh. mandown.co.nz is my new website. Please read: http://mandown.co.nz/other/mandown/mandown-co-nz-a-fresh-start/. For those linking my RSS feed’s, please update to:...

On Friday, Mindscape released the final version of their domain model and O/R mapping framework for .NET developers. I have been on the beta and have been following the progress since it was introduced. So what is Mindscape Lightspeed? "LightSpeed is an innovative, high performance .NET domain model and O/R mapping framework designed to accelerate your development while, at the same time, providing your application with a solid foundation based on best practice domain-driven design patterns. With features like convention-over-configuration, fast data access, model validation and data binding, it...

So there’s a few people wondering where I have been and what’s been happening? I’m not gone, still here just really busy and quite a bit of stuff has been going on over the last few weeks. A few personal things, but also some positive notes. I have now moved teams. I have moved from our Professional Services Team to our Technical Solutions Team. So what does this change involve for me? Well it’s a big one. I have basically moved out our consulting and development area to move of a technical marketing, research and development and solutions area. This has been an area...