blog bits
- Ben Tiedt with questions and answers about Chameleon, some technical, some strategic, like "I've been working on a CS2.1 theme. Should I wait for CS2007/Chameleon to complete it?" and, "Will CS 2007 be XHTML 1.1 Strict compliant? Or, if not XHTML 1.1 Strict, some level of compliance?"
- A Nuglet not for members only: Anonymous user access to the Member Listing. An online community is all about its people, and promoting the Community Server Member Listing is a great way to make connections. This nuglet shows how to make the Member Listing accessible to anonymous users, not to Registered Users only which is the default.
- Kevin Harder with a sweet new look for his Community Server 2007 site.
- You really must check out Rob Holmes new Community Server-based Texture site at http://texture.co.nz. One of the nicest CS sites out there in my opinion. Rob left a detailed comment describing the site and the CS tweaks his team made on this post of mine. (Sorry I don't have a permalink to his comment. I thought I added comment permalinks to my blog, but I obviously didn't. A CS2007 must-do.)
- RentACoder project. "Migrate my Community Server." Deliverables include, "1) Migration of the exact image and function of community server from one server to another. 2) Installation and functonal install on new server of flexwiki..." Project Type: Very Small Business Project: under $100(USD.) Dream on.
- Sean Kearney is the new Darling of the Community Server world. That's my own designation for him, so we'll have to see if it catches on. CarKnee's latest achievement (and new addition to the CarKnee bundle!) is an embedded MP3 player CSModule which turns the textpart into a Flash MP3 Player pointing to the specified Uri. Sean provides an example on his post.
forum bits
- Kevin Harder with a link to a post with information on using the Live Spaces MetaWeblogAPI for cross-posting from Community Server. I created a Space recently for kicks, so I'll probably be using this.
- RJ Dudley asks for help in preventing screen-scraping his blog posts. "Is there a setting where we can add some text to the end of each post in the RSS feed, linking back to the main site, or the specific blog or post?" Jose Lema with the CSModule shell and the logic on how to do it.
- In response to a Forums Read/Unread status fix that Scott Watermasysk said wil be in the CS2007 RTM, ESMeister asks, "you know I gotta ask, any idea on a release date?" ScottW with the word, "Our target release date is still end of Q1 2007 (end of March)."
- Jose Lema answers, "What actually is an 'Article' in CS 2.1?" "Articles provide the ability to create random content (lightweight CMS) that's not part of any of the existing applications (blogs, forums, photos, files, reader, ...)"
- Jose Lema lists how to turn off the Member List search options at the top of the page.
- People continue to ask about File limits in Community Server File Galleries. I remember that the Personal Edition (formerly Express) was limited to 50 files and the Standard to 500. There's nothing on the updated Licensing Matrix to indicate any such limitations. So file up!
- The Genyus on how to retrieve the admin password. Covered before, but can't have it referenced too often. As Gary says, "You can change the passwordFormat field to 0, then enter a literal password directly into the database." This is also a useful practice when working on a site that others may do development work on later. All they would have to do is check out aspnet_membership to get the admin password.