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In late 2021 I had an HCL Connections environment starting swapping, because the AppCluster used more than 30 GB of memory.

The system has

  • two nodes
  • is installed with the medium-sized deployment option
  • About 7500 users with a high adoption rate, because Connections is also used as intranet
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Aaron Burden: Fountain pen and a notebook

Mid 2018 I switched my blog from Wordpress to Hugo . Main reason was performance and that I can use Asciidoctor to write the posts.

What happened the last 18 months? I stayed with the theme I selected 2018, but I tweaked it a little bit. So I added lunr to implement searching, changed all scripts and fonts from CDN to local (privacy and tracking), updated Bootstrap 3 to 4.

Working with Bootstrap was quite fun, I haven’t done a lot of HTML or CSS the last years, but the grid and css classes from Bootstrap are working without checking each change on all browsers and are responsive.

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Aaron Burden: Fountain pen and a notebook

I switched my blog to Hugo the last days. After nearly 12 years with WordPress , I needed something new. Why did I drop WordPress, one of the most used blog engines in the world?

Most used means always most interesting for bad guys. Dynamic pages are slower and can contain more vulnerabilities than static pages (which Hugo generates). Hugo supports git, so I have version control in my posts and design. I can start a small web server locally and test the posts: hugo server -D and the most convenient thing: I can use VIM for editing.

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Here for example embedding a video to a blog post. Prerequist is that you’ve no fear to change some html source.

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Aaron Burden: Fountain pen and a notebook

Last week a new blog editor for offline blogging has announced IBM Connections blogs support.

Blogsy is a nice tool and costs about 4€ in apple app store.

My first tests are not very good, because Blogsy 3.3 has problems with multiple Blogs in IBM Connections. Only one day later, after some comments in Blogsy Blog, a new version can be downloaded from Appstore. Blogsy 3.3.1 can handle multiple Connections blogs, but the App crashes right after uploading a new post. I hope they will make a updated version soon.

I enjoy offline blog editors very much, because i can prepare articles on train and upload them later after i found a free WLAN. This is my first non-test post with Blogsy. Integration is very good and you have quick access to web content, Youtube and Flickr.

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