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Discussion forums anyone?
Jun 20th
There are obviously a lot of very knowledgeable people posting to this blog. While I think the material I’ve already posted is helpful I think there are a lot of other folks out there that could help. I’m currently contemplating starting a discussion forum (probably using phpBB) to help get these folks connected. While I recognize that there are quite a few existing discussion forums (Tek-Tips is one such forum) that provide a great environment I think a better job could be done to help nurture the participants and help keep the discussions on topic. I know that Nortel has some discussion forums of their own which are relatively new.
I get a LOT of personal email messages asking for help on various topics. While I try to respond to the vast majority of them I don’t always have the time (or energy). I’m thinking about the following forums;
- Nortel BayRS Routing
- Nortel Ethernet Switching
- Nortel Ethernet Routing Switching
- Nortel VPN Routing
- Nortel Succession 1000 Call Server
- Motorola Wireless LAN Switches
- Network Management
While it will probably mean some additional workload to get it up and running it could really help connect a lot of folks and could. I could also solicit a few experts to help moderate the different discussion forums and provide some high quality content.
Let me take a poll and see what you folks think. Please feel free to be brutally honest!
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Where’s the content?
May 7th
Yes I’m admitting that I need to post some new content here…
I’ve literally been wrapped up in a large (400+ handset) Nortel IP Telephony deployment not to mention dozens of other projects including such topics as virtualization and managed data center design. In the coming months I’ll also be participating in designing and setting up a 25 user pilot of Microsoft Office Communication Server and integrating it with the Nortel Succession 1000 platform.
I know a lot of us are also sitting on the edge of our seats waiting to see what will happen with Nortel. I heard a few rumors that something should be announced with the next week or two but only time will tell.
Thanks for reading!
RSS Feeds
Sep 21st
I thought I would take a quick second to let everyone know that there are two RRS feeds for this blog. The first feed is for the articles that get posted while the second is for the comments made by readers like yourself and me. There are a lot of really helpful tips and information that can be found in the comments from some very insightful readers.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/michaelfmcnamara
http://feeds.feedburner.com/CommentsForMichaelFMcnamara
While there are approximately 50 readers subscribed to the main article RSS feed there is no one subscribed to the comments RSS feed.
Please feel free to comment on any article, especially if you think the article is incorrect and/or misleading. I’m also interested in soliciting information for future articles. What would you be interested in hear more about?
Thanks for reading!
Cheers!
GoDaddy Hosting and WordPress
Jul 31st
It’s closing in on two months now since I migrated my content from Blogger over to my new WordPress installation at GoDaddy. I must admit that I’ve enjoyed the entire process, from researching the different hosting providers to actually migrating the content and publishing the site.In short I’d have to say that I’m pleased with GoDaddy. I know there is a lot of “hate” out there directed at GoDaddy but the solution has been on par with my expectation of what a $6.64/month hosting plan should provide. It’s no where near as fast as the servers I have at work or home but it works fine enough, what do you want for less than $10/month? The install was as simple as clicking on the “Install WordPress” icon within the GoDaddy hosting connection control panel. Although I did need to fix up the configuration after the installation since I wanted to use the hostname “blog.michaelfmcnamara.com” as opposed to just “michaelfmcnamara.com”. I should probably let folks know I also used GoDaddy to register five different domain names along with their “Deluxe” hosting plan. I should point out to those that are interested that customers automatically get an “Economy” hosting plan with each purchased domain. I only signed up for a single year and didn’t mind spending the extra dollars to try out the upgraded hosting plan.
With respect to WordPress I have just one word – AWESOME! I’ve spent quite a bit of time sifting through the cascading style sheets of the themes and dissecting the PHP code trying to understand all the ins and outs. There is literally a dizzying array of plugs-in and add-ons out there for WordPress that extend the solution’s functionality ten fold. You may have noticed that I’ve been adding a few of the more mainline plug-ins every week (don’t want to overload the site and/or detract from it’s main purpose – educating the readers).
As a side note this blog was recently reviewed by Blogged and received an 8.3 rating. If your interested or just bored why don’t you wander over and post your own review of this blog.
Cheers!
Update: August 19, 2008
I thought I would just post an update with respect to my experiences with GoDaddy. I’m happy to say that I haven’t yet had any issues or problems. The traffic to this blog continues to grow daily but the site still feels fairly responsive. I’ve also added quite a few different WordPress plug-ins and just can’t say enough good things about WordPress.
Cheers!
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