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July 02, 2009
Overhauling the Onehub Email Newsletter »
One of the easiest ways for us to keep our users in the loop about what's going on here at Onehub is through our monthly email newsletter. When I built the first version of the email, it was designed to look like an extension of our main website. However, due to a recent design update to the site, the newsletter was now out of date and no longer met that goal. This meant it was time for a redesign of the newsletter.
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July 01, 2009
Reinventing the Onehub Editing Interface »
Evolution is one of the most important and interesting challenges of designing interfaces. As your application matures your user base grows, the number of features increases, and new use cases are discovered. Because of this, it is vital that you continue to revisit your original design decisions often. Otherwise, your simple and straightforward experiences can easily turn in to splintered, confusing processes.
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June 29, 2009
Coordinating The Onehub Cloud »
Onehub is built on the Amazon Web Services Platform, and as a result we are able to quickly and easily provision new servers to meet demand. We have servers for load distribution, web serving, queue processing, transcoding, administration, and other tasks. Consequently, every new server we launch needs a specific configuration in order to fulfill its functional role in our infrastructure. After careful consideration, we settled on Puppet to manage the configuration of our servers. Puppet does the majority of the heavy lifting -- installing packages, writing out configuration files, etc -- but, we still needed something to group and instruct these Puppet instances. Combining a number of open source tools, we were able to vastly simplify the management of our cloud, and bring the familiar
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June 29, 2009
Tips & Tricks: Subscribing to a Onehub Calendar Widget »
Did you know that you can subscribe to a Onehub calendar widget? It's a great way to keep up to date with events stored in your Hub, along side calendars you have outside of Onehub.
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June 25, 2009
Decorating ActiveRecord Accessor Methods »
Recently, I was faced with a quandary. I needed to impart some of our ActiveRecord accessor methods with special functionality, but I also needed to maintain the default behavior for those fields. This was done to support a new input type which we added to the venerable CalendarDateSelect plugin which allows a user to enter a date, time, and meridian, all in separate fields.
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June 23, 2009
Sharing and controlling access to business videos »
Businesses need to securely share video files for many reasons. For sales purposes, for presentations to customers or clients, or for educational or training purposes.
The hard part comes when you need to share the video outside your corporate firewall and still control who has access to the videos. Let’s face it, not all video belongs on YouTube.
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June 17, 2009
Sending Large Files with Onehub »
QuickHubs provide a simple way to send or receive files from other people and are now one of our most popular features. You can send or receive multiple files at once and setting up a QuickHub is done through a simple, one step wizard.
There are many benefits to transferring files with Onehub instead of email attachments or physical media.
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June 16, 2009
New Feature: Threaded Comments »
We are pleased to announce the release of our most requested feature - Threaded Comments.
Now, the Comments widget allows you to reply to posts, access older posts and determine how many comments you would like displayed in your Hub.
If you are a Contributor, Author or Administrator, replying to comments is easy. When you mouse over the comment, 3 icons will be displayed - a blue arrow for replying, a pencil for editing, and red X for deleting.
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June 08, 2009
Delivery Agent Creates Secure Collaboration Portal »
Delivery Agent, the leader in shopping-enabled entertainment, chooses Onehub to collaborate with high-profile media company partners as well as create a company-wide intranet
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May 19, 2009
Using Onehub as a Sharepoint Alternative »
Microsoft Sharepoint is now used by the vast majority of enterprise companies. Sharepoint is a powerful solution for building Intranet applications and has grown to become Microsoft's fastest growing server product. However, Sharepoint is often overkill for small and medium business users and has significant challenges when sharing data and collaborating outside your company. Onehub provides a powerful, easy-to-use alternative to Microsoft Sharepoint.
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