Site Discussion Group

Added additional anti-spam protection to the site

Paul — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 21:06:37 -0500

Over the past few weeks we had automated spam-bots posting on the website. The spam-bots were able to create accounts using fake google e-mail addresses.

I have added an additional service (besides using re-captcha) to the website to help minimize this spam. This service should be invisible to regular users of the site.

Please send me a private message if you find issues in the service.

- Paul Borghese

Site Discussion Group

Changes to CCIE.net

Paul — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 12:45:15 -0500

I have made a few changes to our humble CCIE community website. The biggest change of course is the redesign of the color and style. Please send me feedback on the new style.

Some other changes:

* Unregistered users will now be shown a list of the most recent public blog entries. If you want your blog entry to be posted to the front page, make sure you mark it "public". Marking a blog entry "public" allows people outside the group to view the entry and encourages participation in the group. ... read more »

Site Discussion Group

RSS Feeds available on CCIE.net

Paul — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:16:05 -0400

I want to point out something that may not be obvious. There are RSS feeds for almost all groups and blogs on this site. Simply take the URL and add /feed to the end. For example, in the R&S group:

http://www.ccie.net/groups/ccie-rs/

If you want to subscribe to the RSS feed, simply use the URL:

http://www.ccie.net/groups/ccie-rs/feed

Site Discussion Group

User's Informational Page - What information should we collect?

Paul — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 20:23:44 -0400

One of my first orders of business is to update what user information is collected and displayed in the user profile. Of course all information will be optional. Some categories I came up with are

Full Name

Personal Website

Instant Messaging Accounts

E-mail (for public display)

Address (at least City, State, Country)

Certifications Obtained

Certifications currently studying

Company

What about another section for "Resume/Work experience", ala LinkedIn? Opininons. ideas?