blog bits
- Morpheus is coming! Jose Lema, the lead developer on Community Server 3.0's new Membership system, gives us the first bits on how Morpheus will make our collective site administrative lives better. "... will treat Membership as a black box. No more joins in the database to those pesky aspnet_* tables." One issue I had with Jose's post is that he used elipses with the "Morpheus is coming..." subject line. He should have instead used an exclamation point. I corrected that oversight here for posterity.
- Ben Tiedt takes us further along our merry ride to Chameleon with an Introduction to Form Controls. "Form controls in Chameleon define the minimum functionality required to implement the purpose of the form--they provide the "glue" that makes a set of form element perform an action. When that action is completed, many forms provide the theme developer with a way to define what to do next." Also listed are the properties supported by Form Controls. Another well-written, informative look at Chameleon from Ben.
- Aspose is pretty hot on finding a Lead Web Developer with Community Server chops. Sounds like a great gig. "Telecommute (We're seeking you if you're truly top no matter where you are.)"
- Justin Pierce creates the coolest mods. He modified the blog comments text field to support basic HTML. He doesn't think its a very big deal, but I thought it was great. You have to type in the HTML manually, but it works like a charm.
- Telligenti Kyle Beyer is the third guy to upgrade his blog to Community Server 3.0 (After ScottW and KenR.) Dan Hounshell was the third guy to blog about his installation of CS 3.0, but Kyle beat him to the Bronze with his public site upgrade while Dan's CS 3.0 site was on a development server. And I was really rooting for Dan to get the medal, too.
- Keyvan Nayyeri explores SiteSettings in his newest CS Developer Guide. Methods covered include AllSiteSettings() returns an ArrayList of SiteSettings objects, GetActiveSiteSettings() and more.
- "I skinned a Community Server site, what a pain!" New from Chris Hammond. I think the title pretty much says it all. Chris likes DotNetNuke skinning. I don't know, but I didn't think skinning in DNN was a picnic either the last time I had to do it.
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