Dave Burke : Online Community and Social Business Specialist

blog bits The Ajax Ninja, who blogged about ongoing problems with CS2007 on DiscountASP.NET, reports that DiscountASP.NET is discontinuing support for Community Server 2007 because it exceeds their 100MB app pool policy.  More specifically, they've... [More]

I blogged before about one of my projects being a Jobs Management application built on top of Community Server.  The most recent area we covered was Charge Labor.  Using the Charge Labor service, project managers can enter hours billed for each ... [More]

blog bits One of my long-time CS Forum buds, Nick Harrington, shows us an example of embedding forum post videos on his EMR/u forums. Mark Monica with detailed information gleaned from Kevin Harder and elsewhere on using Windows Live Writer with Integr... [More]

blog bits If you want to get in the Community Server Game it's now going to cost you $2000 bucks for a Professional License. Rob Howard announces that the Personal and Small Business licenses are no longer available. I suspect we'll be seeing a variety ... [More]

If you saw a post titled "DBVT.COM Now Proudly Serving CS2007.1" in your RSS feeds and clicked through to my site only to encounter a login page, I'm sorry about that. That post doesn't exist anymore, thus the "Take Two" and an explanation. It's pretty la... [More]

A new CodeSmith Project enters the world and its called CSTiers, named after the excellent .netTiers project. While .netTiers creates a complete website, CSTiers will create a DBVT Community Server Visual Studio customization project framework. Almost eve... [More]

blog bits CSDC 2007 is now history.  Ben confirms there will be CSDC presentation videos coming.  Kevin Harder provided live on-the-scene blogging, and Josh Stengel provided the best independent coverage of the event.  Interesting sidebar... [More]

I've been collecting links to sites with style or have certain aesthetic qualities that set them apart.  Since I do a lot of theming it's also good to have a ready reference to sites that I like.  Bookmarking the sites isn't efficient enough bec... [More]

A CS Forums post from RDCrumbaker who asked how to display all bloggers on a blog home page (my answer is here, btw) got me thinking about the Most Active Users display on the Community Server Forums home page and how to re-purpose that as a "Most Active ... [More]

blog bits A well-written and interesting narrative from Scott Vandehey on his frustrations with theming CS2007. "So, to recap: If you want to find anything out about Community Server, be prepared to spend hours trolling the forums and documentation, sif... [More]