Magenic Company Blog

It’s high-time we round up some blog posts from some of the smartest minds in the technology industry. I’m referring, of course, to the many Magenicons that take time out of their busy schedules to share their knowledge on their personal blogs. There’s been a plethora of entries lately and you can read about many of them here.

When Dakota County needed a solution to make their Criminal Justice Integrated Information Network (CJIIN) move to the next level, they looked to Magenic for help.

In the third and final installment of this discussion with Magenic south region general manager John Himebook, I ask John about business transformation applications as well as his “Three D’s” that made up the success of this wave of Window 8 Development.

It’s important to properly manage how site collections are placed into content databases within a SharePoint Farm. This is because a content database size can negatively affect performance, especially when it grows to hundreds of gigabytes or even terabytes of data.

This post will be my own summation of Continuous Integration’s benefit and how it fits into the quality assurance lifecycle.

As we gear up for another Enterprise Mobile Summit (EntMo) in Atlanta in March 2013, we caught up with EntMo 2012 presenter Andrew Eklund. Andrew is Founder and CEO of Ciceron, a marketing agency in Minneapolis. In the video below he discusses mobility for the enterprise with EntMo’s Linda Cummings. He includes what’s changed in just a few short months, what we can look forward to in mobile, and who’s doing it right.

In this second in a series of three videos, Magenic’s John Himebook talks about working directly with Microsoft to develop applications in the Business Transformation category.

In a recent interview, John Himebook mentioned developing a Windows 8 application for Smartvue, a surveillance company. John mentioned it as an example of what Windows 8 can bring to a consumer facing application.

The upcoming release of Windows 8 (Win8) has the Microsoft world (and everyone in it) in a frenzy. While the Win8 news is exciting for Magenic’s thought leaders, being frenzied is hardly anything new. That’s because they always take it upon themselves to share their expertise with their peers in the technological world. With the depth of their experience, that’s no easy feat. Here’s a look at how they’ve been spending their summers and what they have on the docket coming up.

A very commonly misunderstood concept in SharePoint is the notion of page customization and uncustomization. While this topic has been hashed and re-hashed, it seems that every time I revisit it, I gain new insight. This post will try to sort out some of the spaghetti to bring more clarity and also try to point out a different perspective on a familiar concept.