Dave Burke - Community Server Byte for January 19, 2007

Community Server Byte for January 19, 2007

blog bits

Community Server 3.0 is now Community Server 2007. Rob Howard makes the official announcement on cs.org. A bit too "Microsoft" for my tastes, but it does have a nice ring to it. And a major Community Server release once a year sounds like a plan.
Loser-x describes his adaptation of Azeem Azeez's "White as Milk" Community Server theme as minimalist Wordpress. Available for download.
Scott Watermasysk asks, "What else can we do for you in Community Server 2007?" Lots of good input here. My contribution was to agree with Gualha who agreed with The Wizard who echoed what Dave Lee said that an integrated calendar would be a useful addition to the CS Core.
Rich Mercer is the latest Telligenti to move to Community Server ~~3.0~~ 2007. Very nice newly created CS 2007 skin, and according to Rich, done in only 64 minutes. Rich has written other posts about his move to CS 2007 as well.
Kevin Harder is now running Community Server 2007 at kevinharder.com. His new blog Url is kevinharder.com/blog (Kevin explains.) Kevin is also now using FeedBurner to manage his RSS syndication services with its tight integration in CS 2007.
Keyvan Nayyeri does a wonderful job capturing a slice of Community Server Time in "Community Server 2007." It's like he compressed a month of activities in a single post, and with Community Server, as you know, that's saying something. The best part (for me) was when he wrote "our great friend...Dave Burke" is no longer an evangelist. Forget the evangelist stuff. I'll keep the great friend part. You too, man!
Keyvan Nayyeri with another of his instructive CS Developer Guides, his latest on the CS Content Component. "The Content class (which is used to store and retrieve articles in default Community Server code) lets you save your own content into the database and get it later."
Scott Watermasysk discusses Feedburner integration in Community Server 2007 and demonstrates how "you can now not only enable your blog to be burned, but you can also easily enable their new standard statistics package."

forum bits

A reminder from Hanswim of the sweet Community Server Poll control being used on the home page of the new Windows Ultimate site. He's right, it is a nice implementation of a forums-centric feature. Here's a link from the CS Daily News vault with a script from csweigart on how to display a poll on the home page.
Good timesaving info from the Duckie (Tzin Mein) on where to find the CS header and footer page elements with details on how to change their width.
Dave out of London (not Dave Stokes :-) is looking for a CS developer ASAP. PM Dave if interested and experienced in skinning Community Server.
Two guys answer the same question on two different forum threads on why emoticons are not showing up on a new site. I hate it when that happens. My answer is linked above. Here is Jose Lema's. On the plus side, I gave the same answer as Jose did. That's a feel good.
Exploring the Community Server source code to learn how processes work is better than...chocolate milk shakes! Here I walk through the process of how the inline tag editor loads its tags and uses those tags in the clientside AJAX functions to answer a question on where in the source to filter the tags retrieved.
NikW with how to update the SQL script to modify the Most Active Users count to calculate activity over longer periods of time than the default calculation of activity over the last 24 hours.