Dave Burke : Online Community and Social Business Specialist

Community Server contains an EventLogJob task that removes Eventlog records older than two days.  I use the Eventlog a lot to track custom tasks and various other processes, so I want to retain more than two days' worth of records in my event log. Th... [More]

beta forum bits Wolbrink does some good investigative work on how to access user extended attributes with CS2008 REST. Interesting thread that began as a question about Tag Clouds quickly morphs into how CS Group content searching is integrated with sit... [More]

Community Server background tasks are great and I've created a lot of them.  There's one thing about background tasks that can cause problems, however.  When the website process stops so do all of its background tasks. I was designing a task tod... [More]

cs2008 beta forum bits With the release of the CS2008 RC1 I thought I'd better crank out a final anticipatory CS2008 Byte with the Beta Byte handle.  Most of my readers know that I don't do Community Server betas, but thankfully a LOT of other deve... [More]

I was working on a Community Server site-in-progress recently, so the out-of-box theme files encountered some initial experimentation before I applied my gentle carress.  Not a problem-o, but Community Server Modal Windows took a hit.  I was doi... [More]

The more I work with Ben Tiedt's excellent Community Server Chameleon architecture for controlling page display the more I groove on it.  I can't believe the guy uses a MacBook... Anyway, here's a nuglet describing how I extended the Community Server... [More]

You can play as much as you want to drag and drop the contents of tree controls exactly how you want them in the Control Panel.  It doesn't work, nor has ever worked.  Forum lists, too.  These are actually sweet controls, but sorting isn't ... [More]

I always jump at the chance to work with Community Server Chameleon Group controls, as they are powerful, flexible and fun!  An example of a Chameleon Group control out of the box is the display of blogs by blog group as shown here at communitys... [More]

Community Server Content Parts have been around for a long time, slick controls (still, after all these years...) that enable dynamic updates to a Community Server page content area.  My clients can't get enough of them. I was dropping one on a ... [More]

I do this on almost every Community Server site I manage, and as a result love and adoration flow unabated to Vermont.  It's a simple [CP] link added to the UserWelcome.ascx user control that replaces the "Control Panel" menubar link.  Who wants... [More]