Dave Burke : Online Community and Social Business Specialist

One of my Community Server projects is very User Points-centric.  More of my clients are asking for integrated points-based functionality in their communities, and I am starting to see how a rich points API would add a lot of value to Community Serve... [More]

One of the things I enjoy about Community Server freelancing is that you never know what your clients will want you to make Community Server do next.  Today we needed Community Server to accept a login from another website.  Community Server has... [More]

I had a pretty good day.  How 'bout you?  I spent some time today with Ben Tiedt's Dynamic Navigation Add-On for Community Server.  I needed a submenu on a client Community Server project and whenever I have the opportunity to work with a B... [More]

Yeah, I know what I said, but transitions take time and I'm weak, unable to resist the urge to blog about the Community Server coding that continues to comprise most of my freelance workday.  An occasional Community Server riff will be the price... [More]

This is the post I promised when I moved to BlogEngine.NET on where my head's at with Community Server, so listen up.  It's been six weeks since I began marketing myself as a freelance .NET developer focusing on Open Source alternatives to Community ... [More]

I'm going to describe the SQL Script I used to migrate from Community Server 2007 to BlogEngine.NET.  The complete script is available here, and as you'll see there's not very much to it. I walked through the script while writing up this post and suc... [More]

I can't believe I never used this handy SQL function before.  I knew about it for a couple of years, but I never needed it.  When I was doing the import of my Community Server blog to BlogEngine.Net I knew I needed some help stripping out serial... [More]

I am very happy to announce the release of DBVT2008, the dawn of a new era at dbvt.com.  The biggest difference you'll find in DBVT2008 is no "Powered by [anything Telligent]" logos anywhere.  That's right.  No Community Server.  No Gr... [More]

Ben Tiedt's Chameleon is one of my favorite aspects of developing in Community Server.  With it's hierarchical contextual awareness and library of smart ASPNET controls, sophisticated UI's can be created in very little time.  Of course, using Co... [More]

I sling a lot of data in and out of my Jobs Management Application and this afternoon's slinging consisted of Job Estimate data from Microsoft Access.  The process occurs through a Community Server background task and consists of three steps.  1... [More]