February 2008 - Blog Watch

forum beta bits Two interesting upgrade bits from Jose, the fact that blog owners are no longer stored as extended attributes and that only if photo and file galleries have the same appkey are they merged during the upgrade process. ScottW informs us that Community Server 2008 no long supports storing files in the database. I always turn off the database storage option, so I'm definitely fine with it. There are other new storage options as Scott explains. There have been a number of observations...

The Pregame.com Web site highlights Community Server’s ability to serve as the main engine that drives an entire Web site. COMMUNITY SERVER in ACTION Featured by CBS News, AOL.com, CNN.com, The Wall Street Journal , SportsCenter, Forbes , and others , Pregame.com is the country’s largest sports betting information Web site. Pregame.com and its subsidiary Web properties produce bet-centric sports information presented in an easy-to-use format for both seasoned veterans and new action junkies. Pregame...

A Community Server project I'm working on currently is based on a custom theme that I received from my client. It's a very attractive theme that I like a lot. Seriously. And there aren't a lot of attractive Community Server sites out there, so I appreciate working with a standout theme. I was working on a custom Chameleon form that contained a modal window link, but a Javascript "Telligent_Modal is not defined" error prevented the modal window from opening. Looking in the custom...

The Need For Speed ProStreet blog highlights the platform’s ability to manage the display and filtering of media assets. COMMUNITY SERVER in ACTION Electronic Arts was looking for a proven community platform that would allow its gamers to upload images directly from their console to share with the world (via the NFS ProStreet Website). EA also desired a simple way to manage and display the various media assets of each community member. The team at Telligent worked with Electronic Arts to incorporate...

The Photo Ordering service has been around in Community Server forever. I didn't know it was still available, but a client asked for it recently so I went searching for legacy bits in the SDK to bring it out of retirement. For how long it will be functional with the impending release of CS2008 and the merging of the File and Photo galleries into a single Media Gallery is not known, but confidence is not high. And since there are probably only 2 Community Server sites in the world using this feature...

Yesterday a colleague wrote, "It's hard to believe you had 27 blog posts in one month a year ago." I think that his disbelief was triggered by my lack of regular posts recently compared to my abundance of posts then. Last night I took a look back through some of those posts from this time last year to see what the heck I was doing that would give me enough material to post nearly once per day. One of the things I was working on was the WhatIWantMost project, but the other was that I...

Part one of Wyatt and my talk about theming Community Server from CSDC '07 is now available on the Telligent web site. This video provides an overview of Community Server theming, URL rewriting, and the Chameleon theming language. Go watch it now... Read More...

Ben Tiedt did a great job introducing theming Community Server with Chameleon at the Community Server Developer's Conference - and we got video. It's long but great! If you want to build a custom theme or tweak your existing UI, this is a great video to spend some time with. You can also buy the book about building custom themes in Community Server: Professional Community Server Themes by Wyatt Preul and Ben Tiedt . The book covers URL rewriting, theme creation, Chameleon controls, dynamic...

Community Server improves functionality, localizes site in different languages...( read more ) Read More...

The Microsoft SQL Customer Advisory Team site highlights the platform’s ability to serve as a portal that leverages real-world customer deployment content to augment enterprise knowledge. COMMUNITY SERVER in ACTION The SQL Customer Advisory Team (SQLCAT) is a customer-facing group within the Microsoft SQL product division that works to improve the SQL Server product and customer experiences within the enterprise space. The team captures learnings from real-world SQL Server implementations and develops...

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Come and get it! Beta 1 of Community Server 2008 is now available: Web Installer: http://get.communityserver.org/download/cs2008b1web Windows Installer: http://get.communityserver.org/download/cs2008b1msi Upgrade Tool: http://get.communityserver.org/download/cs2008b1up Below is a brief list of what you’ll find in this Beta: Groups. We’ve added support for private and public groups that support their own membership, blog, forum, gallery, and pages. You can now easily create mini-communities for friends...

The topic of uploading multiple images in Community Server goes way back and there are a number of guides already out there. Yet I was writing a few how-to PDF's for a client today and one of the how-to's included the process of uploading multiple images to a Community Server Photo Gallery. I thought that certainly I could point to a old DBVT.COM How-To post on it, but I couldn't find one. I also searched the cs.org docs but I didn't locate one there either. So while I was on a PDF...