Dave Burke : Online Community and Social Business Specialist

If it weren't for Fritz Onion, the second and final day of ReMix07 Boston would have been a total wash.  What a disappointment.  I started the day with Fritz's "Building Silverlight enabled ASP.NET AJAX Controls" which was outstanding, but then ... [More]

The following are my scribbles of today's ReMix07 sessions.  I guess I could have brought my laptop and blogged them, but scribbling with pen and paper is good for the soul.  The notes might not make any sense to you, but they do to me which is ... [More]

We're halfway through ReMix07 in Boston and I'm very happy I made the trip down.  The conference has been meeting my objectives to get a real-world taste of Silverlight, Expression and XAML with some dazzle thrown in to get the juices flowing.  ... [More]

I became interested in Community Server (and before that, .Text and nGallery) because with the source available model (back then, as open source) I could do things on my site that I found personally satisfying, whether the features had any value or n... [More]

It's a wrap on another outstanding New England Code Camp.  Chris Bowen did a fantastic job organizing and managing the event.  I don't think even his predecessor Thom Robbins could have done a better job.  (Did I just say that?) LINQ seemed... [More]

Since our New England Developer Evangelist is so on top of things and posted this weekend's presentation schedule, I thought I'd map out my personal agenda. Below is my tentative cut-n-pasted session schedule. SATURDAY 9:00 - 10:30 A Lap Around IIS7 fo... [More]

I knew I'd love my Community-Server-as-a-Business-Application project because I knew I'd be creating Community Server controls and modules like no one else, and I think a Chameleon Charge Labor app fits the bill.  I only have time to show the final v... [More]

The Chameleon theming engine in Community Server 2007 makes creating blog breadcrumbs way too easy.  Below is a blog breadcrumb and the HTML code used to create it.  The circled HTML has to do with creating a tag breadcrumb link, which... [More]

This post covers the high points of associating and displaying a tagged collection of photos with an individual blog post in Community Server. Let's say I'm doing a series of Vermont State Of Mind Goodness, using my recent Hike to Camel's Hump Summit pos... [More]

An old Sealy mattress commercial theme "It's a Sealy Posturepedic morning!  Yeah!" inspires this post title, one of the popular culture TV clips used in "Being There," probably my all-time favorite movie.  "I like to watch."... [More]