Dave Burke : Online Community and Social Business Specialist

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]