Dave Burke : Online Community and Social Business Specialist

Developers new to Community Server may rightly view it as a rather odd duck, with the Chameleon control model falling into that realm of feathered obfuscation.  Yet a rather seemingly insignificant control I wrote recently might help explain Chameleo... [More]

One of the Community Server projects I manage is designed to be replicated many times.  Don't worry, the licenses have already been purchased.  :-)  That's not my concern.  What is my concern is scaling out the site as efficiently as p... [More]

forum beta bits Two interesting upgrade bits from Jose, the fact that blog owners are no longer stored as extended attributes and that only if photo and file galleries have the same appkey are they merged during the upgrade process. ScottW informs us t... [More]

I was primping a Community Server site for a client First View when I noticed a pager control was not working in Firefox.  It was fine in IE.  AND, it worked on my development server but not on my public staging server.  The HTML links were... [More]

blog bits It appears that Microsoft is continuing to advance their social networking product, as it now powers MSDN Forums.  I assume it's the Microsoft.Community application I reported on back in April of last year.  It's nothing to write hom... [More]

A Community Server project I'm working on currently is based on a custom theme that I received from my client.  It's a very attractive theme that I like a lot.  Seriously.  And there aren't a lot of attractive Community Server sites out the... [More]

I'm working with a Community Server site theme that has a blue background and concluded that the out-of-the-box rating stars, while looking fine on a white background, looked downright crappy over the blue.  So I rolled my own.  Here's what they... [More]

I see this question from time to time, where someone wants to provide several PayPal buttons on a Community Server page.  This is actually a .NET issue, since each PayPal button is contained in a separate form, and only one form is supported on a .NE... [More]

The Photo Ordering service has been around in Community Server forever.  I didn't know it was still available, but a client asked for it recently so I went searching for legacy bits in the SDK to bring it out of retirement.  For how long it... [More]

I'm using a blog to serve as a directory for one of my clients who asked me to replace the Tag Cloud behavior with primary and secondary categories.  It's always interesting to modify aspects of Community Server and having the capability to do so is ... [More]