Dave Burke : Online Community and Social Business Specialist

Interesting experience with Community Server background tasks today.  In my CS-based Jobs Management Application I have a number of background tasks running all the time, one of which is a data import task that pulls in data from a number of Access d... [More]

Somewhat of an abbreviated Community Server work week, having gone Vermont leaf peeping with my wife and a friend of ours from out of town last Monday.  We drove to Stowe and over Mount Mansfield through Smuggler's Notch on route 108. God, we live in... [More]

Configuring Community Server for a single blog has kicked my butt since 2003.  (I'm going back an extra year because it kicked my butt in .Text, too.) I was configuring a new site for a single blog late last night--I thought Saturday Night Community ... [More]

If you go with excerpts on a Community Server 2008.5 blog, they may look funky and you may wonder why.  Wonder no more, because CS2008.5 excerpts are now in HTML format. I would think this has to be an oversight in CS2008.5, but haven't seen anything... [More]

So you're going to do some heavy-duty theming on your brand new Community Server 2008.5 site.  You've created a copy of the \Themes\Hawaii theme and named it "DBVT."  Okay, maybe you didn't name it "DBVT," but there it is and you're ready to sta... [More]

This is more of a REST thing than a Community Server issue, but I was testing a REST process on a client site and kept receiving an "Invalid Credentials" error.  The REST process was working perfectly on two other Community Server sites, so I couldn'... [More]

I was sloppy when installing an add-on the other day on a client Community Server project. I installed this particular add-on a couple of times before and didn't feel like walking through the README.TXT.  When I loaded the site I got th... [More]

Good introduction to the Community Server 2008.5 SDK from my friend Bill Bosacker.  I mentioned in my last End of Week Community Server Riff that I upgraded to VS2008 specifically because of CS2008.5 compile issues in VS2005, so I can concu... [More]

I'm upgrading some of my client sites to Community Server 2008.5, and have nothing but good things to say about the latest and greatest version of Community Server.  I'm even feeling okay about navigating around in the Control Panel, and that's sayin... [More]

Time for another End of Week Community Server Riff, boys and girls!  The day job this week was filled with thrills and high-flying adventure.  I already described the fun of sorting a UserList by points.  As I said in the post, that was int... [More]