Saturday, June 2, 2012

Projects Report In Short

Back to Work now :)

Me and my girlfriend have spent an awesome week in Salvador, probably the oldest Brazilian city of all. We have visited many places apart from the historical center where we were staying. The Pelourinho... Historical centers of the cities in Brasil are not as well maintained as they are in the European cities. So choosing this place to stay was a bit of a mistake, as it is not the most beautiful part of Salvador. Rio Vermelho or Barra on the other side were just great though. Mostly because of the food and beaches!

Lita in Salvador - Barra


All that matters very little now though as I have spent my last couple of days in front of the computer, biting through millions of emails, mostly unimportant stuff. Only the recent projects update emails from my colleagues and feedback from customers catch my utter attention at this time. At ZeneXa, we're getting pretty busy now....
ZeneXa Limited

What's on the plate? Introduction of new exciting features to our Module Hider DotNetNuke module for instance. We are introducing the all new filter - hiding DNN Page modules based on Role Membership.
Our DotNetNuke Module Hider makes it damn easy to hide one or multiple DNN modules from any Dotnetnuke page... It is exactly as it says on the can "Hider" and nothing else. I had a question from Alex P. from another company which also develops webs based on DotNetNuke asking if the Module Hider also redirects to the different language version based on condition. Well it does not...

Module Hider


But, it indeed gave me an idea and I "architected" a solution where it does exactly that based on the conditional filter engine from ZeneXa Module Hider... Thanks to Alex we will soon extend the portfolio of our DNN modules. I mean as soon as I get an implementor of the solution or find the time for it myself.

Our ZeneXa NewsLetter and Autoresponder with subscription box DotNetNuke module seems to be unwanted at the moment. Maybe it's complexity scares potential users? Or there is not enough of a market for it now? It enables owner of a DotNetNuke website to add fully customizable subscription box on their page and then serve automated emails or simple newsletters to the subscribers. The module has plethora settings for custom templates, custom fields for subscription box, organization of subscribers into groups, organization of autoresponders into their own groups, custom SMTP server settings... We decided to extend this module even further now by sending the automated series not only based on subscriber groups, but any filter based on the values that subscriber fills in during subscription! This feature is actually going to be the base for our own Software project that me and Ravi (the original creator of Automated Emails for DNN module) are currently working on!

Email Autoresponder


And another project - long term one, but potentially the most exciting is a surprise to be revealed hopefully very soon - helping people to get onto internet at much more manageable and affordable cost. Idea of my good old friend Thilo, who is now co-implementator of this great idea.

Yep, pretty busy now in the world of ZeneXa Software... :)

Jozef