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...
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9/24/2009 2:38:03 PM
by Dave Burke,
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JQuery | Community Server | .NET
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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...
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Posted on
6/12/2009 7:52:31 PM
by Dave Burke,
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Community Server
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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...
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Posted on
6/9/2009 1:54:33 PM
by Dave Burke,
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Community Server
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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. ...
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Posted on
2/12/2009 8:37:41 PM
by Dave Burke,
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Community Server
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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...
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Posted on
2/1/2009 3:13:56 PM
by Dave Burke,
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Community Server | Drive | CodeSmith
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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...
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Posted on
1/21/2009 7:37:57 PM
by Dave Burke,
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Community Server
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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...
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Posted on
1/21/2009 7:29:54 PM
by Dave Burke,
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Community Server
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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...
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Posted on
1/21/2009 6:37:03 PM
by Dave Burke,
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Community Server
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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...
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Posted on
1/2/2009 9:04:56 AM
by Dave Burke,
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Drive | CodeSmith | Community Server
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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...
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Posted on
12/1/2008 4:39:31 PM
by Dave Burke,
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CodeSmith | Community Server | Drive
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