Kevin M.'s blog

User Facing

• Refactored the code that updates forum list pages to process and display new posts before allocating resources to maintenance or cleanup tasks. (English: even when the site indexing engine gets bogged down, forum posts will be processed and displayed before anything else.)

Connect users,
We'll be upgrading the databases on the Connect servers tomorrow (Saturday, May 5) beginning at 12 noon Pacific time.

We expect the outage to last for two hours.

User Facing

User Facing

• Refactored "Activity Feeds" on home page and community overview pages to update more often.
• Added optional Twitter feed to Event Group home pages.
• Removed "Google Buzz" option from "Share" menu.
• Solved an issue that was causing a fatal error when the events activity filter was selected from certain group home pages.

Public Facing

• Added "My Bookmarks" feature to allow users to bookmark groups, articles, and topics of interest on Connect.

• Added code to render Connect on mobile devices.
  - Touch optimized
  - Automatic device detection
  - Ability to "quick switch" between the desktop UI and the mobile UI.
  - Platform support for Apple iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Blackberry, and more than 20 other mobile platforms.
  - HTML5
  - Lightweigh
  - Fast

• Successfully split the Backup and Archiving community into two new communities: "Archiving and eDiscovery" and "Backup and Recovery".
• Successfully integrated Ideas from Clearwell Systems into the new "Archiving and eDiscovery" community.
• Changed the behavior of the voting widgets to ignore (and not respond to) a double-click.

General updates:

General updates:

• Added "Symantec Certifications" to the profile pages of qualifying (certified) users.