blog bits
- Two Craigslist posts for you in today's Blog Bits. First a "we're looking for a C# developer" post, though I don't know if "location:DUMBO" is physical or virtual.
- The second Craigslist post for you today is seeking for an expert Community Server developer. Whoa! I LIKE these guys. "NO, we DO NOT have the time to wait for you to learn it, or get better at it." And, "NO BULL CRAP, please provide credentials and proof of experience."
forum bits
- Community Server MVP David Voss with some excellent info on restoring View Counts in CS2007 SP2.
- Anyone interested in spending a few weeks in Arizona on a Community Server contract gig? Hotel, travel and food accommodations provided. Sounds good. One thing though, and I'm not completely sure about this, but doesn't it get pretty hot in Arizona in July?
- Kevin does a good job explaining how the Reader and Roller superceded Blog Mirroring and that they only still exist for legacy support.
- Kevin grants url rewriting immunity to anyone seeking to eliminate /archives/6/30/1.aspx from their lives. I was thinking about doing this on a client site just yesterday. Now I think I will, darn it! But as Kevin says, "just remember to keep the same format in the future so links don't break."
- This is one of those discoveries where you hear Dana Carvey saying, "Well isn't THAT special!" There seems to be a bug in CS2007 (fixed in upcoming SP3) where ping services are DOA unless overridden in the blog ping service urls or configured in a blog editor like Live Writer. The cs.config ping directive is otherwise ignored in CS2007. Big thanks to Kevin Harder for the information! I updated my ping settings on both dbvt.com and Live Writer before finishing this bit.
- David Voss on how to bring Active Topics back in CS2007. Definitely a deliciously bookmarkable CS Bit in the making.
- Until this issue is resolved and the culprit identified, if being master of relative paths in your content generation domain is important, you might want to inspect the urls of inserted site files and photos in CS2007 and TinyMCE. Absolute urls are apparently doing a dominatrix number on relative path urls, and not in the fun way.
- I like Jose's description of "tapping into Community Server's event pipeline" with a link to new (and much better than the developer wiki) docs.cs.org info on CSModules.
- You've gone into forums and set "Display: No" for each and every forum. Now none of the forums appear and the 'Personalize' text is gone. What do you do? WHAT DO YOU DO???? Jose with the backdoor querystring solution of /forums/default.aspx?personalize=true.
- Kunlun with a great tip on hiding empty photo galleries from the main gallery list page using an <LI runat=server /> Visible setting.
- Ken re-states a point I made last week, that perhaps the best information you'll find on commercial add-ons is in the download's readme file, here in regards to the mail gateway (a cool Community Server add-on. Not as cool as the News Server add-on, of course, which is my personal favorite, but still a great add-on.)
- Jose reminds us of ASP.NET 2.0's app_offline.htm to lock-out other users during an upgrade.
- David Voss with even more gold for us today, how to display recent forum and blog posts of select forums and blogs on the homepage sidebar.
- Uploading and applying the SP2 bin files restores the homepage "Who is Online" module? I didn't know it was missing!
- I've been using this CSS tip from PickyH3D myself lately, inserting image tags to the left of some content item. Here Picky is demonstrating how to use it with a WeblogData control item.
- Another good reason to not touch the source when doing Community Server mods. Ben added filtering by GroupID in the <CSForum:ThreadList /> control to the CS2007 SP2.