Itteco Magic

With the recent deployment, we now officially remove ‘preview’ label from our community portal.

Our social network system does not have much features published yet, but lays on the solid foundation and tons of features have just been disabled for the time being.

So, here is what we have released:

• People’s profiles
• Social features such as friending, status updates, timelines, wires
• The blogging engine & platform. For now, only pre-defined public community blogs are enabled and each member can post in the back-end depending on the project/platform roles.
• Most fabulous feature is that you now may invite people into the community…

We’ve got the following blogs thus far:

• Tech Rocket Science: all project members are up to write about daily tech challenges they meet as they code
• Mission Control: is meant for Scrum masters and project managers to blog about the lessons they learned throughout projects
• App Launch Pad blog is for the showcase of the projects being launched by community members. Only people with the right ‘product owner’ at at least one of the projects are entitled to post.
• There are also several complimentary blogs such as the one you read (Itteco Magic), covering the features and news of the platform. Itteco corporate site is hosted at the same platform.

To start bloging, click “Blogs”, when page opens – select the blog you want in the context combobox, and hit “New Post” to the right.

The blogs are essential for the knowledge sharing and community building. We encourage everyone to participate in the discussions.

Among the updates of the other system components, we have attempted to resolve the boot time issue for project servers. We aimed for 20 seconds (which is awesome compared to 3-4 minutes that we have had). We will keep working on this issue to make the experience even smoother. As you know, whenever the server is inactive for certain period of time, we put it into sleep. The nap time is often used to roll out updates and do general maintanence.

That’s it for today. Go explorer the new stuff. Let us know your thoughts at suppport repo. If you do not see how to get into the community site, you probably did not opted-in yet. Just select Home -> Join Community in this case.