blog bits
- Jose tells us two developers are apparently hired by Telligent to work on CS Core. That's great news, though I've never heard of either Jayme Davis or Dave Donaldson, nor have ever seen them on CS Forums.
- Excellent coverage of spam prevention approaches in Community Server from Keyvan. Lots of screenshots. The post was titled "Part 1," and Keyvan said he'll be covering ways to use the Subkismet open source .NET spam stopper library in Part 2. Personally, my CS2007 CAPTCHA control from Brendan Tompkins makes spam a non-issue.
- Speaking of Brendan Tompkins, he released his KickIt for Community Server 2007. I'm not a KickIt user, but if Brendan thinks its a valuable enough tool to qualify as a CS2007 add-on, then I need to think about it.
- A comprehensive list of CS2007.1 updates from Ron Crumbaker, reposted from the download readme.txt. A useful, quick overview of CS2007.1 updates none-the-less.
- But it still quacks like Community Server! Screenshots and description of the latest Community-Server-as-a-Business-Application module I'm building, a Charge Labor module for Community Server.
- How to display content on selected pages based on site url using the Chameleon CurrentSiteUrlCondition control.
forum bits
- Positive comments from the users of jstengel's site on CS2007.1 performance improvements. I'm thinking, "David Penton was here."
- Interesting thread on post-based, dynamic excerpt truncation. At least I thought so.
- One of the many reasons I like Ken is his matter-of-factness in making a point, here in regards to the absence of the Express (free) Edition on CS Downloads. "Express version isn't going away or gone or anything. It just isn't listed on the page, since the page only shows info on the purchaseable editions. Just download CS, install it, and boom, you're on Express edition."
- Insider info from Dan Bartels on gallery image storage changes in CS2008. "...we will be changing how gallery images are stored in CS 2008 to be more like file gallery, where the files will be stored in a folder specific to the gallery."
- HTML from Erik P. Ernst on displaying an "Active Posts-like" listing of File Downloads on the site home page.
- Ben reminds us (again) that Chameleon is all about location and context, here on displaying a UserAvatar control. "If a blog post doesn't exist within the context of the WeblogPostData control, the control (and all of its content) will not render (including the UserAvatar control)." Ben makes it happen with CSControl:UserData instead.
- Ben on how to filter a WeblogPostList by aggregate tags.
- Scott Mitchell with tagcloud corruption and phantom tags displaying on one of his site blogs. He fixes it by going into cs_posts_InCategories and doing some pruning directly in the database. Note to Telligenti, when a developer the caliber of Scott Mitchell has a Community Server issue, someone needs to step-up and assist.
- SBVTCommunity is looking for Community Server expertise 'round St. Louie way. Telecommuting is welcome.
- Jeff Espenschied with another of his posts-of-value, here listing how to add an XML menu dropdown in Community Server.