Have a look at Virtual Engine’s blog

From the RES community dept. I was made aware of a cool blog that one of my industry colleagues, Iain Brighton at Virtual Engine, has put together. There are several useful articles regarding RES PowerFuse to be found here, among which I would like to highlight the PowerFuse Delegation article which was published yesterday. Keep up the nice work! Go have a look here.

If you have a blog or website that has solid technical information on RES Software products, drop me a message @RESguru, and I’ll be happy to take a look at it.

New community contributions

From a pingback on the Wisdom Tips & Tricks article here the ‘Guru, I stubled over VirtuEs, which is a new blog by the hand of.. hmm, not really sure – it doesn’t say? Anyway, it looks to become a cool blog so I’ve added it to the link list here at RESguru. Anyway, the point is VirtuEs has a really useful article on how to prepare the Wisdom Agent for cloning. The article can can be found here.

While we’re at it, the nice folks at RES.NL supplied a set of Feature Profile documents, which outline the technical capabilities of some of the features found in PowerFuse and Wisdom. The documents can be found here.

Thanks everybody for contributing to the RES community – Keep it commin’! :-)

The Guru is Back!

Greetings fellow Guru’s, and happy new year!

It’s been quite a while since something has happened over here on RESguru. New customer projects, job transitions and in general running around in small circles throughout 2009, has attributed to the dip in the steady flow of content.

What matters is that the ‘Guru back in great shape for the new year, with loads of upcomming new and interesting stuff for 2010, which you can use to wrangle even more value out of your PowerFuse and Wisdom environments.

As usual all the good stuff is being put forward to the community in the context of the RES Software Usergroup. Articles found here will be accessible through resug.com also.

In related news, we are on the brink of seeing the release of the brand-spankin’ new PowerFuse 2010 and the Orchestration Pack for Wisdom this year. Plenty of questions will be answered about these. Due to the hush-hush about  new releases, I unfortunatly can’t go into the nittygritty details about PowerFuse 2010 until mid-febuary.

Some of the noteworthy improvements onthe  blog include:

The technote library is receiving a long needed overhaul. I’ve had some catching up to do in regards to what’s happened with product releases, etc. This meant that all articles had to be reviewed and amended if needed. A full list of updated articles is being published soon.

The glossary, which has been around for a while,  is also receiving a facelift. If you haven’t visited it before, you will find in the right side of the toolbar at the top of the page. The glossary has been updated with new terminology relating to PowerFuse 2010 and the upcomming RES Orchestration Package for Wisdom. In general a glossary is a great ressource for those who are new to the RESverse and need a quick reference to all the buzzwords and tech jargon flying around in here.  This is a living document which I hope you will find it worth contributing to. The idea is to create a list of all the often used phrases, technologies, oddities etc which are associated with the RES technologies. This should be a one-stop ressource where RES novices and professionals alike can look up stuff.

New buildingblocks and articles! To start with, there are a couple of interesting new articles in the technote library from RGO1C and up. These are the first of hopefully many to come. As always, if you have stuff you want to share, come forward – YOU can be a RESguru too!

One final little thing, which hopefully will make alot of readers happy. Up until now all large screenshots opened up in a new window, which was annoying. I finally got the LightBox 2 plugin installed in WordPress, so big graphics just zoom up on the existing page. Links to other pages will however still open up in new windows so you can continue reading the article you’re currently at.

RESguru.com is back in action – with a vengeance! ;-) Stay tuned!

Oh yeah, and Mike M – totally love your movies, so please forgive the blatantly crappy  photoshop above! :-)

RESguru and RESug merged!

May 4th 2009 at 21:00 GMT, it was officially announced that the people behind the RES Software User Group and the RESguru.com website are joining forces to provide even better content and information to the entire RES community.

Yuri Haak, co-founder of RESug.com: “This is indeed a match made in heaven as the newly started community provides an officially vendor sanctioned place for all RES community members; administrators, integrators, distributors and RES employees alike to share ideas and all sorts of things. Merging with Max’s RESguru.com provides a massive influx of material which will be of great value to the community.

Max Ranzau, aka the RESguru; “This is an exiting opportunity to contribute content to this cause. Until now, due to the fact that I’m at RES Software, I was constrained to write under pseudonym for legal reasons. As RES Usergroup is an seperate legal entity, I am now allowed to write under my own name as a regular community member. It will be a pleasure to continue serving the community with new and interesting material.

So, what’s going to happen at RESguru.com? This message has been posted on both sites. In a short while, all previous content from RESguru.com will be still available in it’s current form. The forums at RESguru.com will however be replaced with the forum at RESug. We all believe that this marriage of effort will bring the best of both worlds to the RES community.

RES UserGroup Online!

This morning, the long anticipated RESug.com went online, which is now the officially endorsed RES UserGroup site (unlike the babbeling black sheep of the community here ;-) Anyway, here at the ‘Guru we absolutely welcome the site to the growing community of RES technology related sites. A big hoorray for Yuri, Marcel, Thomas and everybody else who are involved  with this.

We took note of the nice info you guys are posting. Keep it comming! ;-) Looking forward to meeting you again at PubForum this year in Dublin.

/TRG

UPDATE April 30th – it seems RESug.com is undergoing some dev & maintainance work, so we might have been a bit premature in the above announcement. Keep an eye on it however – something wonderfull might happen!

Group for the Guru’s

Hello fellow Guru’s. It is a pleasure to announce the creation of a LinkedIn group for RESguru.com. This is a way for you to signify your affiliation and/or support for RESguru.com. If you like RESguru.com, please feel free to join the group here.

On another note,  we’ve nuked the KB archive link on the top menu of the blog and put in a direct link to the RESguru Forum. With a whopping total of two cached articles, the KB archive wasn’t really going anywhere and some of you asked for a better Forum link on top instead – well you got it! :)

Things will start to take off shortly again… Give it a week or so and we’ll be back – better than ever!

RESguru – Gone Fishin’ :-)

Hello fellow Guru’s! Just for your information, RESguru is taking a couple of weeks off, from Friday 13th, so there will (probably) not be any new articles for the next couple of weeks. Expect things to pick up again after April 1st. The forums are of course open 24-7 and one of the guest authors may perhaps post something in the interim. Seeya soon!

/TRG

1000 Gurus in the house!!!

Greetings fellow Gurus! It is with great pleasure we today can annource we’ve passed the 1.000 user marker on RESguru.com – All within exactly 2 months of the inception! Okay, to be perfectly honest we might actually have passed the mark before, as the Histats.com counter wasn’t added until January 21st. Thank you every one of you, for your interest and support. Especially a big thanks to the co-authors of this site who have made great contributions. Keep up the great work, gentlemen!

Below is a breakdown of the demographics. Not suprising we have quite a few Dutchmen following the site.  straight in on second place are the states with a whopping 109 visits from the Big Apple alone? – what the heck are you guys doing over there? :-) Third is Ol’ Britania!

Here’s a top-ten over visitors on the RESguru:

Again, thanks for the 1.000 hits – keep em’ comming guys! We’ll try to keep it interesting in this end of the wire! ;)

/TRG

And the results are in!

On this most historic of days, January 20th 2009, it would seem appropriate to have a look at how RESguru is doing in the world :-) Seems the blog is picking up quite a following from the first days in the states. Thank you all for your support and interest! Click the image below for updates (opens in a new window)

/TRG

How to setup RSS feed on your phone

As show in the sidepanel on the right, WordPress offers the blog updates as RSS feeds. Iit probably would make sense to explain how to get it working. If you have a RSS reader on your phone, you can keep up to date with the latest postings on RESguru.com wherever you are.

This has only been tested on a Symbian based Nokia phone so far. It seems most of these have RSS readers built into the web browser. Here’s how to configure it.

• Start the webbrowser on your phone
• Go to bookmarks and select the folder Web Feeds
• In the menu, goto Manage Feed | New Feed
• In the Titlefield, enter RESguru
• In the Address field, enter http://resguru.com/feed
• Save, go back to the menu and select Refresh

There is an alternate feed for comments located here: http://resguru.com/comments/feed