Dave Burke : Online Community and Social Business Specialist

I received this email from my pal SB Chatterjee so I'm doing my part to spread the word for the first Hartford, Connecticut Code Camp Call for Speakers.  I'm not sure yet if I can make it, since I'm not seeing anything about a Saturday Night Geek Par... [More]

The subtitle of this post is "Keeping up with Keyvan." The guy is definitely a high octane .NET machine. I told him how excited I was about his work on an ASP.NET Task Scheduler and as a result have been made an honorary participant in The Abidar Project ... [More]

My wife and daughter are out of town for a week visiting her folks, leaving me "alone with my work."  And I've been banging out a lot of code.  Today's 10 hours were spent working toward the goal of converting dynamically generated ASPX Job Slip... [More]

It's generally a good rule to not blog about what you don't know, but sometimes it's a moral imperative.  With my ignorance highlighted with a yellow marker, let me tell you about my Visual Studio Website Project Awakening, the week that was. As I me... [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]

In my Jobs Management app built on Community Server I needed to display job documents.  Another in-house Document Management application already had a page that displayed documents based on jobs, so instead of designing original Chameleon controls as... [More]

I've created a few custom Community Server link controls in my day deriving from WrappedContentBase that display a modal window when clicked.  They're smart and efficient, but I didn't like the fact that when doing a mouseover the cursor did not chan... [More]

I'm not trying to compete with Sarah Ford's excellent "Did you know..." series, but I wanted a better way to display smart tags in VS2005 and took a path I had not traveled before.  I heard a drum beat never heard and pressed keys not yet pressed. ... [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]

Another super-duper New England Code Camp has come and gone.  Best ever?  You betcha!  I know it had more attendees and sessions than any that preceded it, but I'll wait for the official word from Chris Bowen.  Check out the photo belo... [More]