blog bits
- CSDC 2007 is now history. Ben confirms there will be CSDC presentation videos coming. Kevin Harder provided live on-the-scene blogging, and Josh Stengel provided the best independent coverage of the event. Interesting sidebar: According to Kevin's Day Three account, "Everyone eats the Mexican lunch and listens to the Applied Innovations demo," since Applied Innovations "was kind enough to sponsor today's lunch." Yeah, I guess. Sales pitches during lunch are rarely a fan favorite. Someone with keys to the Telligent Executive Washroom must have thought, "the cattle will moo blissfully while chewing on their taco cud."
- Jose lays out three changes coming in CS2008. 1) No more site virtualization support, 2) no more user-selected site themes, and 3) no more reader application. Apparently they're adding new features to CS2008, too. Seriously, not that it matters, but I'm cool with each of those decisions. Good plan.
- Community Server Developer gigs in Vancouver, WA and Palo Alto, CA. If you're in your unmarried 20's phase with CS chops, think about the Vancouver job. It's beautiful there!
- A new tale chronicling the human drama of breaking through to Telligent Sales appears on Channel9 this week. Irascian elaborates more about his experience on his blog, concluding his narrative with "Way to go, Telligent!" and not in a good way.
- This is a forums bit, but speaking of Telligent Sales, someone wants to sell their Community Server license. Nick Harrington promises to raise the issue at the CSDC, with Telligent's Nicole Keith's response being, according to Nick, a "categoric 'no.'" Maybe Ms. Keith didn't understand the basic concept here. "I bought your product. It's not for me. I want to sell it." No, really. You're telling me I can't sell my Community Server license?
- Wiley has a page listing Wyatt Preul and Ben Tiedt's "Professional Community Server Themes." Does that mean I'll be getting my pre-ordered copy from Amazon soon???
forum bits
- Ben with the Regex to prevent users from creating usernames with spaces in them. Keywords: userspaces, user spaces, account names, usernames, user names, chr(32).
- As we now know, site virtualization is going away in CS2008. Here Ben makes a good point in advocating Shared Membership to accomplish a similar end.
- DaveOnSEN with his instructions on running CS in a subfolder.
- My pal Dave Stokes from Nottingham is so darn crafty! Here he shows us how to create custom File Gallery icon gif images. Don't let this guy's erudite British accent fool you. He's actually really smart! (Hey, he also likes American Football, so that confirms it.)
- Some Ben Tiedt Wannabe shares how to generate a list of all bloggers.
- Clever insight from CS MVP David Voss on how to get an email notification when a "Report Abuse" is submitted. Cool!
- Exception logging is turned off by default in CS2007.1? If David Penton says it, I believe there's a good reason for it. David shows how to enable it. As Forrest Gump says about CS upgrades, "One more thing."
- Ben with this CS Byte's Inline Wizardry Feature showing how to display a random photo from the album in an album list and loading the album's preview image with data-binding.
- Interesting thread on Best Practices for Site Integration for a recipee community site. [Warning: lots of posts from me on this thread.] I shouldn't report on this since "Practices" on the Thread Title is spelled "Pratices" and consequentially places this thread beneath acceptable CS Byte journalistic standards, but Jose added a post describing various CS2008 features to the thread which compensates for the mis-spelling and pushes the bit above the bar.
- Ben's fun inline HTML wizardry tip of the week: adding unique icons or thumbnails for individual forums.
- GoDaddy. 200MB database restriction. NoGo.
- Is it possible that The Wizard holds the solution to the longstanding Corrupt File Gallery Downloads issue? He's not The Gatekeeper, he's not the KeyMaster, he's The Wizard! Yet, I wonder...
- Steve Haasis is looking for a CS Dev for a small job involving custom reporting. Keywords: beer money.