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Valleywag RC 2 (apologies to ZeFrank for the title of this post.) Update: Looks like the Gawker Media designers reacted pretty quickly to the criticism on their site and changed the body text font from Courier to Verdana. Big improvement, but still not...
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some news from the Summit on the CS 3.0 Theming Engine: New Theming Engine in Community Server 3.0. We were first to see the new Community Server 3.0 engine in action and saw demonstrations of each of the items listed below. SiteUrls.config will be arranged...
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Dear Telligent We are as excited about the first Telligent Community Summit as some of the other delegates , but unfortunately we will not be able to make it this year. Summer is coming and the crops need planting, plus the South African Rand to Dollar...
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I have been stripping the default CS skin down and rebuilding it as a more web standards friendly skin over the last couple of days. It is a huge task, and I often leave comments in the various skin files so that I can track where I have been and what...
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The amount of comment spam that I am getting has increased threefold in the past month. Luckily Telligent's awesome spam filters are catching them all, but nevertheless my ratio of spam to useful comments must be approaching 100:1. Some of this spam is...
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This is a totally rewritten version of my Soup Developer skin that I have coded for Community Server 2.1. I have rebuilt it from the ground up and it represents a significant improvement from the Soup Developer Blog Skin for CS 2.0. My CS 2.0 skin has...
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Nick just posted up a screencast introducing the Migrator , the new cs application being built by the CSMVP's (the talented ones, not hacks like me :)). I am really excited about this - I know a number of people who would gladly migrate to CS if there...
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I have been playing around with Conditional Comments , which lets you serve different stylesheets to various versions of IE by placing a specially formatted comment in the <head> section of your page. For example, the following code: <!--[if...
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The search function on the soup blog has been fixed. I inadvertently broke it when I upgraded Community Server from ASP.NET 1.1 to ASP.NET 2.0. Searches were giving no results. Search is not a function you normally use on your own site, so it took a mention...
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This is a test post using Windows Live Writer , which was launched today by Microsoft. I like the interface, which I think owes a lot to Blogjet, the paid for tool that I normally use. I feel sorry for Blogjet's Dmitry Chestnykh, who will likely see...
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I have just installed Ken Robertson’s excellent AllcommentRSS module on my blog. It makes so much sense to get your blog comments via RSS Reader instead of through email notifications. Installation is quick – the whole process took under a...
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If you are going to allow people to comment anonymously to your blog then inevitably you are going to attract the worst type of spammer scum. Luckily Community Server ’s spam blocker does a really effective job if configured properly. I wrote a...
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This site is now running on CS 2.1 RTM . I created a few new blog skins that ship by default with 2.1. They include a few cool features that I will blog about in the next few days.
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Justin Pierce from Blogfish has posted a cool tutorial on how to extract the CS post date so that you can make a calendar date ‘box’ on your blog post. This is something I have been wanting to know how to do for a while and as soon as I saw...
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This blog has been upgraded to Community Server 2.1 Beta 2 and is now running under ASP.NET 2.0. Great work Telligent – this release is awesome.