blog bits
- Steve Schofield walks through the Community Server Web Installation steps with ORCSWeb. This is applicable to most other host providers as well (though I can't vouch for GoDaddy. :-)
- Telligenti Dan Hounshell posts "So what is Community Server?" linking to a Design Melt Down post that provides a definition, "Community Server is an application with the sole purpose of building online communities. It is a turbo charged set of applications that all play well together." Patrick McNeil, who authored the Design Melt Down post displays 26 thumbnail screenshots of Community Server sites, including the Mix07 site which I haven't yet seen. Ben Tiedt's site was among the sites featured, as well it should be.
- The only way to do justice to this post from CS Core Development Team member Ken Robertson is to present it to you in its entirety. Wife + Teacher + Pregnant: "One nice thing about having a wife who is a teacher and her becoming pregnant shortly after Christmas is that all her Starbucks gift cards become your Starbucks gift card. Seriously, as a pre-school teacher, she gets tons of gift cards at Christmas, and since she is now pregnant, she won't be using them, so handed her remaining ones over to me. Woo!"
forum bits
- Interesting comparison between Skin ASP.NET control coding in CS 2.1 and CS2007 with Ben Tiedt explaining how to remove the File Name hyperlink in the File Galleries details page. CS 2.1: ASP.NET nastiness, CS2007: simply remove a LinkTo attribute.
- A Gold Forums issue demonstrating the clever ways smart people are using Community Server: An option to forum post deletion and notifying authors when deleting forum posts. GLG asks how to disable email notifications to the post author on forum post deletion, with CS MVP David Voss explaining his implementation of "The Dungeon," a Moderator-only forum for deleted posts.
- Woodseowl had an issue with Enterprise Search not searching File Gallery files, or more specifically, his FilesIndexTask job not firing. It turned out he was not working with the latest Service Packed Enterprise Search Add-On, which addressed the issues he was having with files residing in non-public folders. A useful lesson in diagnosing CS issues with add-ons.
- Ben Tiedt explains Content Language Filtering for section language assignment and language exclusion viewing. Not only that, but as Ben explains in a couple of posts later, Content Language Filtering also applies to secure RSS feeds.
- I've known Vern Gill for years, and I'm sure other long-time bloggers reading this bit knew Vern since when they used .Text, too. He's a character from Phoenix alright. :-) I've always liked him a lot, the radical that he is. Here Vern revives an existing thread on Extended User Profiles with details of the code he's trying to make work on his site. If you follow the next 20 posts with input from Muxdaddy and Jose Lema, you'll see a extended user profile mod from genesis to completion.
- The Duckie with a new, cool site theme for that stupid club site of his. Very nice, Duckie!
- ScottW being ScottW, sharing technical insights as casually as if I were to tell you what time it is. Then again, I haven't worn a watch in over a decade, so maybe that's not a very good analogy. Scott shares how to approach changing Community Server Search logic to return unique posts within a thread as opposed to the multiple posts from the thread that are currently retrieved.
- ScottW providing a taste of Morpheous capabilities in answering a question about performance differences between blog- vs. forum-based sites. "One potential option in CS 2007 is to split your community into two seperate sub-communities. The new user changes (Morpheous) in CS 2007 will allow you to share a single user base across multiple communities (in different databases / servers / clusters). We are already using this on sites like weblogs.asp.net, forums.asp.net, iis.net, netfx.com, etc. There is one shared user base for all those sites, but each community is isloated and can use/share hardware as necessary."