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Here you can check out the interests, thoughts, activities, opinions, and ideas of Hannon Hill’s team members. In the spirit of community, you’ll be able to get to know some new Hannon Hillians as well as familiar ones. Your contributions are more than welcome, and we hope that you enjoy this blog. We look forward to sharing our enthusiasm for the future of Hannon Hill with you! You can also view past blog entries in our Blog Archives.

2008 User's Conference - Updates & Info

By Sam Beresford

Thursday, August 7th, 2008 at 3:00pm

As many of you may have noticed (by visiting the User's Conference section of our site), we've completely sold out of rooms at the Georgia Tech Hotel & Conference Center, the site of our 2008 Cascade Server User's Conference.  But fear not!  For those still interested in attending, registration for day rate attendees is open through September 1st.   Just visit the User's Conference sign-up page, register as a day rate attendee (which covers conference admission, breakfast, lunch, snacks, and our Monday night open house dinner), and then give me a call (see below).  We've made arrangements to se

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Business Risk Mitigation & the Real Cost of Going Open Source

By Morgan Griffith

Thursday, July 31st, 2008 at 3:15pm

As makers of proprietary installed CMS software, we constantly run into prospects looking for the content management system that's right for their organization. However, oftentimes these prospects are unsure as to whether to go with an open-source or proprietary system. While there are some similarities between the two, there are also stark differences between an open-source and installed CMS system that should be considered in the CMS selection process. As is the case with most substantial business-investments, one factor that must always be considered is business risk mitigation and how your organization can avoid taking on unnecessary

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Muenchian Grouping in Cascade Server

By Ross Williams

Monday, July 28th, 2008 at 3:00pm

As Services Trainer for Hannon Hill, clients often ask me how to group a list of articles by category.  XSLT 1.0, the version of the XML-based language used in Cascade Server, doesn't have easy-to-use grouping capabilities, but we can take advantage of other features in this version that will allow us to create groups.  This technique is called Muenchian Grouping, after Steve Muench at Sun Microsystems. 

Here's how to do it:

First, we will assume that you are going to group by a dynamic metadata field named "Category."  The parts of an index block that we're concerned with matching look like this (a s

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Exploring Customizable Roles in Cascade Server 5.5

By Uran Piedra

Friday, July 25th, 2008 at 12:15pm

The release of Cascade Server 5.5 was an exciting one for the Hannon Hill team, as it included some important new features focused solely on enhancing the overall user experience with Cascade. Last week, we told you about Content Types, which allow users to easily apply a predefined type, such as a Blog Post or Press release, to a particular page of content while maintaining consistency among other pages of the same Content Type. Today, we’re highlighting another great feature from our recent release, Customizable Roles.

Customizable Roles enable administrators to change the default capabilities of each of the five user roles in Cascad

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Last Call for User's Conference Registration

By Sam Beresford

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008 at 3:30pm

The bad news -- July 15th, the registration deadline for the 2008 Cascade Server User's Conference, has come and gone.

The good news -- we still have five three two one room left!

 Yep, that's it.  When we first decided to hold this year's User's Conference at the Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center, we reserved a fairly conservative number of rooms.  Along the way, as the registrations came pouring in and demand increased by the week, our friendly sales manager at the GTHCC graciously accomodated our requests for more rooms.  And then some more rooms.  And then a few more rooms after that. 

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Exploring Content Types in Cascade Server

By Morgan Griffith

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008 at 11:30am

With the recent release of Cascade Server 5.5, Hannon Hill has introduced a new first-class element to the system - Content Types. At the most basic level, Content Types are a way to formally aggregate a page's Configuration Set, Metadata Set, and Data Definitions into a single administrative component. However, in their real-world application, Content Types provide increased ease of use and application to pages for end users.

How are Content Types set up?

Content Types are given intuitive and logical names such as "Blog Post" or "Press Release" to aid end-users in easily identifying which Content Type to use for eac
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Registration Deadline Tomorrow for 2008 Cascade User's Conference with Guaranteed Accommodations

By Elizabeth Starkey

Monday, July 14th, 2008 at 1:00pm

Tomorrow, July 15th, is your last chance to sign up for the 2008 Cascade Server User’s Conference with guaranteed accommodations! After July 15th, we will only be able to guarantee day rate admission ($350) to the conference, and unfortunately, we cannot guarantee that there will be accommodation availability at the conference site. If you are interested in attending the conference and staying at the Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center (GTHCC), register now to reserve your spot!

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Cascade Inspiration

By Sam Beresford

Friday, July 11th, 2008 at 4:30pm

To prove to you how proud we are of Cascade Server, and how confident we are in its abilities as the web’s premier content management system, I could start off by telling you about our clients.  I could tell you that we have over 150 of them, including some of the leading names in the fields of education, business, healthcare, and non-profit management.  I could tell you that they use Cascade to power their blogs, create their calendars, and optimize their URLs for search engines.  I could tell you that our clients rely on Cascade to generate their RSS feeds, lay out their site maps, and publish their course catalogs, onl

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Registration Deadline for User's Conference 1-Week Away

By Morgan Griffith

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 at 3:30pm

Don't miss out -- the July 15th deadline for the 2008 Cascade Server User's Conference is right around the corner!

This annual event is a great way to meet, interact, and share ideas with your fellow Cascade users. In addition, our user's conference provides an interactive opportunity to learn more about Cascade from the Hannon Hill team, and find out what is in store for our flagship CMS product in the coming year. Our introductory end-user sessions, in-depth technical discussions, client-led sessions, and open Q&A are all great platforms for you to get your most burning questions about Cascade answered, and gain insight int

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Managing Content in Emergencies - University Alert Systems with Cascade

By Blaine Herman

Monday, June 30th, 2008 at 3:00pm

Cascade Server has provided many solutions for our clients. Most recently, Hannon Hill clients in higher education have been using Cascade to solve a very important issue: to manage and publicize content in emergency situations on campus.

Here we've outlined just a few of the ways that Cascade Server could be used to assist a college or university in an emergency setting:

• For minor emergencies or alerts, such as informing your end users about road closings or traffic accidents, Cascade Server can be used to create an “emergency alert “asset factory. Once created, this page could update an automated index page listing of the a

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