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

Using JQuery to supplement CSS inadequacies

The technical depth of this post is about as lightweight as it can be, but the subject is interesting because it represents a new level of controlling page layout with JQuery.  The use of "CSS inadequacies" in the post subject is a little m... [More]

Posted on 9/24/2009 2:38:03 PM by Dave Burke, (2) Comments
Categories: JQuery | Community Server | .NET
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Today's Community Server Favorites - by Post and Section

I'm Day One into a new client project updating a customized CS2008 site to CS2008.5 SP2.  It's interesting what unanticipated issues you encounter when upgrading a working site.  Today it was the display of User Favorites by "Post" and... [More]

Posted on 6/12/2009 7:52:31 PM by Dave Burke, (5) Comments
Categories: Community Server
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Converting Community Server Comments into Customer Reviews

This Community Server mod was too much fun not to blog about. Blog Post Comments as Customer Reviews. We all know users can rate a post, but displaying an individual star rating per "comment" is not something you see every day. This is what we'r... [More]

Posted on 6/9/2009 1:54:33 PM by Dave Burke, (2) Comments
Categories: Community Server
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Styling individual Community Server sidebar widgets

I do so much weird stuff in Community Server, like today when I needed to style selected sidebar widgets different from others.  Sidebar CS Widgets share the same CSS classes in a single ContentFragmentList control <LeaderTemplate />, like so. ... [More]

Posted on 2/12/2009 8:37:41 PM by Dave Burke, (0) Comments
Categories: Community Server
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Email Considerations with Community Server Single Sign-On

I had to add this fix for a new Community Server site launch this fine Super Bowl Sunday so I thought I might as well blog about it.  It's also an important issue when using Community Server Single Sign-On. Single Sign-On automatically creates new us... [More]

Posted on 2/1/2009 3:13:56 PM by Dave Burke, (2) Comments
Categories: Community Server | Drive | CodeSmith
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CS Nuglet: Centering a variable item Navigation Menu by role

This is a pretty simplistic nuglet, but I went about my business for two days living with a non-centered navigation menu until this simple fix presented itself.  The issue is one most of us encounter: Anonymous users see 4 menu items in their Navigat... [More]

Posted on 1/21/2009 7:37:57 PM by Dave Burke, (0) Comments
Categories: Community Server
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CS Nuglet: Determining first forum thread post for custom UI display

I needed to display a graphic under the user avatar on the first forum thread post today and found it to be an interesting little task.  Essentially I took an approach similar to highlighting an author's comment in CS2008.5, which I always thought wa... [More]

Posted on 1/21/2009 7:29:54 PM by Dave Burke, (2) Comments
Categories: Community Server
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CS Nuglet: Flexible Editor Type Selection by function

Community Server supports three versions of the site editor. The editor is used throughout the site for functions that vary from managing a user's Bio to entering Forum and Blog posts. The three editor versions are Plain Text (no HTML), Standard (HTML), a... [More]

Posted on 1/21/2009 6:37:03 PM by Dave Burke, (0) Comments
Categories: Community Server
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Drive v1.0.4 with SubForms Support now Available

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 de... [More]

Posted on 1/2/2009 9:04:56 AM by Dave Burke, (2) Comments
Categories: Drive | CodeSmith | Community Server
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Drive in Motion: Handling Data Object Changes

We've all been there.  We add a field to a SQL Table because our business object needs a new property, which means we have to change the business object and include the new property or properties in the various processes where the object is being pop... [More]

Posted on 12/1/2008 4:39:31 PM by Dave Burke, (0) Comments
Categories: CodeSmith | Community Server | Drive
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