Changes are Coming to the SQLServerCentral Forums
The codebase for SQLServerCentral is old. Not as old as it looks, since our developers tried to keep the look and feel of the original site when they upgraded the underlying framework in 2009. Since...
View ArticleShould We Move to Azure?
This editorial was originally published on May 23, 2014. It is being re-published as Steve is out of the office, with a few minor editorial changes. Update: We made a number of changes last year,...
View ArticleMoving to AWS EC2
SQLServerCentral has been stuck in the past for some time, but we’ve finally decided to move. I’ve been asking for this, and it’s usually a resource issue. However, earlier this year we started to...
View ArticlePorting SQLServerCentral
Like a few of you, I’ve been working with WordPress as a blogging platform. Over the years I’ve tried a few different pieces of blogging software, but I really like WordPress. I’m not alone as there...
View ArticleFun with Dates and Times
The other day I got a Github issue that asked if we here at SQLServerCentral should set our dates as YYYYMMDD in the new SQLServerCentral site. The issue noted that there were some inconsistent dates....
View ArticleSQLServerCentral Design Decisions–Forum Threads
It’s been a long couple of weeks. Almost two weeks ago we cut over from our older, v2 version of the site to the new (and current) v3. Lots of bugs, lots of disruption, and lots of unexpected items. As...
View ArticleSQLServerCentral Design–QotD
This is part of a series of posts that look at the changes to the SQLServerCentral design, bringing us to v3 of the site. You can see the other posts with the SQLServerCentral tag. We’re a few weeks in...
View ArticleSQLServerCentral Design–bbPress
This is part of a series of posts that look at the changes to the SQLServerCentral design, bringing us to v3 of the site. You can see the other posts with the SQLServerCentral tag. Lots more work to be...
View ArticleSQLServerCentral–Fixing the Time Zone
One of the bugs features of the bbPress forum software is that all posts were shown in a time zone, which for us was a default of UTC. Not a bad choice, but this made for funny displays, depending on …...
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Abuse, Patience, and Understanding
I’ve been struggling with an author for a few months. I tried to work throughs some issues, and I couldn’t get anywhere. This was very frustrating, and I spoke with a few people in the company. They...
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