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    Beta test our new control panel

    Overview

    A new responsive design for the main control panel.

    Features include:-

    • Responsive design
    • Search box now searches articles.

    Top right menu

    Try out the Demo


    by:Lei Gao - 26 Mar 2014
    Professional Services Pricing

    stSoftware Professional Services and Packs

    stSoftware's professional IT and development services are provided by our own web and cloud experts in Australia who are highly trained and experienced. Professional service packages are very popular with our clients as they can utilise the full range of our IT services at discounted rates. Packages include Continuous Improvement Programs (CIP) or Professional Service Packs.

    CIPs and Professional Service Packs allow our client's to innovate, disrupt and implement new technology


    by:Tina Odling - 26 Mar 2014
    You have such big ideas but so few characters...

    Overview

    Our free text shorter service uses a clever combination of word replacement, adorable images and good old fashioned magic to optimize your tweets. In case you don't have hours to sit with your teenager to learn the latest hipster abbreviations this service is for you.


    by:Nigel Leck - 25 Mar 2014
    How to configure the ideal stSoftware server cluster?

    Overview

    Best practice network design for a highly scalable, distributed web system has:-


    by:Nigel Leck - 21 Mar 2014
    Can you explain your development, staging and disaster recovery environments?

    Development Environment

    We normally use our own in-house development servers, as they are already setup and configured to our solution server requirements it is cost effective and efficient.


    by:Tina Odling - 19 Mar 2014
    How are server issues (faults etc) monitored?

    We have automated heart beat monitors which checks the health of the servers and a number of background tasks. In addition to checking the list of known tasks database read & write actions are performed and the available disk space is checked. If the heart beat monitor itself takes more than 5 minutes to run an alert is sent. The heart beat monitor runs every 15 minutes.

    Heart beat message

    The list of tasks that the system will monitor are defined in the class DBTask.

    List of tasks

    A task is defined by:-

    • code which uniquely identifies this task

    by:Nigel Leck - 19 Mar 2014
    How are SQL Injection attacks prevented?

    SQL injection is a code injection technique, used to attack data driven applications like stSoftware.

    stSoftware systems support a number of web accessible protocols including:-

    • ReST
    • SOAP
    • Web Forms
    • GWT RPC 

    All protocols access the underlying data through the DAL ( data access layer). There is NO direct access to the underlying data store no matter which protocol is used. Each protocol accepts the request to read or write data and then perform the protocols validations and then passes the request on to the DAL to execute the request which in turn validates the request, checks the user's access and perform any validations before returning the result.

    SQL & XSS attacks are automatically tested for each of the supported protocols. Listed below are the standard SQL injection strings attempted.

    SQL Injection String
    "&amp;%00<!--\'';你好
    \'; DROP

    by:Nigel Leck - 14 Mar 2014
    How can stSoftware's CMS be used to manage events and resources?

    Events and Resources are managed through multiple Modules.

    They are briefly outlined here;

    Events

    • Details, site, time and date, duration


    • Invite attendees – select attendees then click send invitation button to send template email to all attendees & record status and attendance


    Scheduler

    • scheduling events - resources according to availability, skill set, location


    Admin

    • manage staff resources – availability rules, specialisations and rates


    Timeline

    • Easy graphical interface for tasks, events, jobs (projects

    by:Angus Leck - 13 Mar 2014
    Exporting Reports to PDF and Excel

    Click on the Export button and then choose the file format of your choice: CSV, PDF or Spreadsheet (EXCEL)

    Export

     

     

    Marking the records by clicking on the left hand checkbox, will export only the selected records.


    by:Liam Itzhaki - 11 Mar 2014
    New template "Munter"

    A new template "Munter" has been added to our Content Management System (CMS). Munter is a very handsome Bootstrap 3 theme. Comes with beautiful features like a fixed arrows navigation, a nice portfolio showcase and a smooth scroll.

    Home page - mobile

    Munter iPhone

     


    by:Lei Gao - 7 Mar 2014
    What is the recommended upgrade schedule for self hosted systems?

    We recommend at least quarterly maintenance release are installed to your test environment, tested then promoted to your production system as part of the normal software maintenance cycle.

    Regular and timely updates reduce the risks of running a live system that is out of sync with stSoftware's current version and enables your users to benefit from our R&D program, which is our investment and commitment to continually improve our systems for our customers (in recent years we have typically invested over


    by:Nigel Leck - 4 Mar 2014
    Windows Active Directory Single Sign-on for stSoftware servers

    Overview

    Single sign using Microsoft LAN Manager (NTLM) allows users within a intranet enviroment to use the system without the need to re-enter their password once they have logged into the Windows network.

    Note the NTLM protocol can only be used within a internet environment.  


    by:Nigel Leck - 2 Mar 2014