Dave Burke : Freelance .NET Web Developer specializing in Online Communities

The Project Gummy Bear Forum is up and as a happy result the YetAnotherForum.NET Sueetie DIFF source is on CodePlex and setup documentation on the Sueetie Wiki.  One more app and it’s a wrap on setup. Roger Martin’s Gallery Server Pro remains.  At that point we take it to the next level, o... [More]

Seth Godin’s Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us is 5-star material. I loved it. I’m giving Tribes the highest Nordic Track rating in spite of the fact that it’s only 140 pages. I’ve purchased and read almost every book Godin has ever written, but I don’t like the fact that his books seem to be getting ... [More]

The BlogEngine.NET integration DIFF Source is now on CodePlex and setup documentation on the Sueetie Wiki.  BlogEngine.NET’s flexible configuration options made Sueetie Community integration a simple affair.  What was interesting about integrating BlogEngine.NET was that from the beginning... [More]

I’m looking forward to the day when I’ll be announcing new releases of my Drive CodeSmith template library to generate custom code for Sueetie, but while I’m still doing a lot of Community Server stuff I will continue to release updates to Drive for CS development. Version 1.0.4 has support for crea... [More]

This post is essentially a collection of tweets about my Christmas 2008 experience of visiting wife-side family in Manhattan, Kansas for 5 days. I’m of the opinion that more than 3 tweets in succession should take a different form, so I am sticking them here in one place.  This post might also ... [More]

It’s been a productive New Year’s Day with the Sueetie Wiki DIFF source code and Setup Documentation now online.  My convention of cross-posting original material here and at Sueetie.org continues with this post containing only the intro and closing excerpt from the Sueetie Wiki Release Announc... [More]

Thousands of 30GB Zune owners have formed a “My Zune is a Brick” club on this New Year’s Eve day after a Y2K-like issue killed their Zunes.  Some sort of clock bug related to 2008 having 366 days is causing 30GB models to reboot and then hang before completing boot-up. Brick! While I have an 80... [More]

Lots of new Wiki Setup docs at http://sueetie.org/wiki/setup.ashx to accompany Project Gummy Bear’s current status of the Root Web and Membership Administration areas now online. 1) Site Setup: A Step-by-Step Guide.  This lists the areas covered in the setup documentation.Step-by-step instruct... [More]

This post is heavily borrowed from “Project Gummy Bear hits the Cyberstreets” on the Sueetie Blog, but I wanted to make sure everyone had the latest word. I’m still in flux on how to approach posting both here and at Sueetie.org, but I’ll start by avoiding post duplication and go from there. The ide... [More]

The response to Sueetie has been greater than anything I experienced before.  It’s clear that a lot of people get the membership-centric, loosely-coupled .NET Open Source application model of Sueetie. As for Sueetie.org launch issues, two folks that I know of had trouble registering.  One ... [More]