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At this point in time, Your organization most likely uses its website to deliver key business data to your customers.  This could include the delivery of product marketing information, contact information, or product support documentation.  Your product may be your website if you deliver your application in a SaaS or cloud based distribution model.  As [...]

Add Categories/Meeting Types to SharePoint 2010 Calendar

Posted by Amber Pham on March 29th, 2010

I recently had a client ask if additional categories could be added to the choice list in the SharePoint 2010 Calendar Web Part.  These categories are in the pick list when you create a new calendar item from the SharePoint interface. This is how to change the categories: 1. Go to the calendar web part [...]

Breathe new life into a bogged-down CoyotePoint Load Balancer with DSR

Posted by Irving Popovetsky on April 7th, 2009

Let me start by saying this:   I am not a fan of CoyotePoint load balancers.    My support experiences so far have all been atrocious.   The system architecture is a cheap imitation of F5′s BigIP architecture from a decade ago which constantly limits me.    I’m convinced that people only buy these things because they’re cheap. I’ve [...]

Lesson learned: High traffic WordPress Site Operation

Posted by Irving Popovetsky on April 7th, 2009

I recently had the pleasure of helping out with a WordPress blog which had gone supernova.   Within hours of being linked to from several major news sites,  the server couldn’t stay up for 10 minutes without something terrible happening. Unfortunately, WordPress isn’t setup for high performance operation out of the box.  Each page request is [...]