Twan Meijerink

Smartsite and an external SQL Azure Database in the Cloud!

Since a couple weeks it is possible to use a SQL database in the cloud (SQL Azure).....and of course we all want to take a look at it, right? Well, I did ;-) So how does it work? The fhe first step is to create an CTP account at http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/developers/sqlazure/ . After registration and confirmation you wil get access to the Dashboard: Here you can create a new database. In this simple example I called the database Smartsite (Notice; it's not actually a Smartsite CMS database)....

Retrieving user data from active directory!

Last week I started to take a look at the Active Directory Service Interfaces and how we could implement this interface within Smartsite. Well, it's actually quite easy! You first have to create a new connectionstring within the smartsite.data.config that calls the active directory with  trusted credentials and make sure this connectionstring can be used by the securityprofiles within the smartsite.security.config. After the configuration you can start requesting almost all data from your active...

New manager-interface

Next week two students start with a project called "New interface for the Smartsite Manager". These students, Frank Calor and Mike van der Linden, study "Grafimediatechnolgy" and "VIA" (vorm en interactie design). They have a thorough knowledge of the theory about interactiondesign, usability, sumi-testing, heuristic evaluation, think aloud methods and they have knowledge about Content Management Systems, static and dynamic websites. This makes them perfect candidates to create a new interface (mock-up) for...