Dave Burke - Community Server Byte for June 21, 2007

Community Server Byte for June 21, 2007

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Colin Bowern shows off a new Community Server 2007 theme with an articulate description of his overall first impressions of CS2007. Colin elaborates on implementation inconsistencies across modules, tightly bound application modules and documentation deficiencies.
Fellow Browncoat Andrew Tobin has been blogging up a Community Server storm recently, his most recent post detailing his Identicon and Gravatar installation from the CarKnee Bundle for CS2007. A number of other CS posts from grr, argh!!! like this one on sharing CS user accounts with sub-applications.
.NET Rocks interview with Rob Howard recorded April 18th. A good excuse for me to catch Carl's show again. It's been a long time.
Ben updates his Wikipedia Link Module for CS2007. Ben's Wikipedia Link Module displays pop-ups for more information from Wikipedia on selected terms. Highlight "Wikipedia" on Ben's announcement to see it in use.
Ben with a new cs.org Knowledge Base Article with the fix for removing comments and trackbacks from searchbarrel-based queries.
Come on down, Dustin! It's time to play our game of supporting multiple site articles and their individual selected navigation tabs! Dustin provides the steps he took to the jackpot at around the 14th comment on this recent post of mine. (I really need comment permalinks. Sorry.) Essentially he creates the article, adds the siteurls link, and with a new content page master, adds a SelectedNavigation on the contentname querystring value.

forum bits

Gary McPherson with the siteurl override to place the user profile at the site root, as in www.mysite.com/username.
Gary again with a sql query to update missing ASPNET roles due to collation conflicts and other acts of God.
Gabe19's got it goin' on, sharing lots of Community Server smarts on CS Forums lately. Here he provides a nifty HTML trick on displaying a different favicon per site blog.
Afscrome with the QueryOverrides to display a "Snitzian" Active Topics page where more topics by forum are listed. Example link to the Freudian, er, Snitzian topic display is provided.

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Posted on 6/21/2007 8:16:33 PM by Dave Burke
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6/21/2007 10:22:11 PM Permalink

Community Server is great, however, you can still see traces of applications that were pulled together with some folder names in lower case and other's in Sentence case. Obviously this is minor, but it all contributes toward the overall perception of a finely integrated suite.

John Chundu |

6/22/2007 4:44:51 AM Permalink

John, I think you're right Integration is key in CS, but I can appreciate the idea of more loosely coupling the apps as well. Thanks for your comment.

daveburke |

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