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Connections 101 – what a fantastic idea

I think a community high five is in order for Mr Paul Mooney and Ms Gabriella Davis. They have taken on the mamoth task of creating a Connections 101 site that will assit those new to Connections and WebSphere to get you up and running with advice, information and assistance. Something like this can not

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Tidying the blog

Published by in Blog, General on March 28th, 2012

Today I decided to tidy my blog and to try and make a bit of sense out of all the *stuff* I throw up on this site .. That is throw up as in post .. not as in .. well you know what I meen … Anyways after much hacking and slashing at php

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Connections fix pack 3.0.1.1 now available

At last Connections fix pack 3.0.1.1 is now available to download and fixes lots of little issues, including the firefox feature with files and wikis and the issue chrome has with files. I installed it on my test system yesterday and it went very smoothly. The fix pack can be downloaded from Fix Central. Fix

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Back from DLP and man it was great

Published by in Disney, Family on March 26th, 2012

Had a fantastic time at Disneyland Paris for 6 days .. and it was GREAT !!! So the Highs and Lows of the trip .. Lows: Princess Pavillion – Lovely looking BUT be prepared to wait 2 hours for princesses – the shortest time I ever saw the queue was 60 mins and that was

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Happy 10th Birthday Walt Disney Studios Park

DLP Studios park turned 10 years old today There was a day of rather muted celebrations today, never the less the Studios has become a great addition to DLP – the up-and-coming Ratatouille dark ride coming in 2014 and more work possible on revamping other parts of the Studios there is much to look forward

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A fix for the Chrome header issue

Stuart blogged back in January about a known issue with downloading files from the files application using Chrome. IBM do not officially support Chrome with Connections 3.0.1 – but our good friend & IBM Champion Sjaak Ursinus has devised a work around. Header edit Content-Disposition ^(.*)creation-date=(.*);\smodification-date=(.*);$ “$1creation-date=\”$2\”; modification-date=\”$3\”;” ensure the mod_header module is uncommented httpd.conf

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Issue with custom themes and communities

I have had a PMR open for some time relating to a bit of a known issue with Custom themes and Connections communties There was an issue where you would create a custom theme In my case I also customised the coloured community themes also When clicking on forums, blogs etc the theme was stripped

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Issue with Connections media widget timing out

Whilst building a new Connections environment for a customer we noticed a strange issue when uploading large files to the media gallery. Initially I thought it was related to the size of the file, but the same file will upload to the Connections files application without issue. There is very little errors in the SystemOut.log

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Connections demo from the Lotusphere OGS

As kindly shared by Mr Luis Benitez, the portion of the Lotusphere 2012 OGS of the lovely Suzanne Livingston demoing what is coming in IBM Connections version 4 and beyond. For those of you who didn’t managed to catch it live or on the OGS replay – if you are interested in Connections it is

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