October 2009 - Blog Watch

In Telligent Enterprise you can search for users based on profile attributes. This video demonstrates how simple it is to find experts in your enterprise by simply searching against profile feilds that users have filled out. (Please visit the site to view this media) This becomes really powerful if you combine it with our ability to let you define custom profile feilds for skills, languages, etc. Read More...

Regular blog readers may know of my work with Microsoft’s free kid’s coding IDE, SmallBasic as a tool to introduce the fun of coding to DigiGirlz .  As I work with my volunteer developer teams on improving the way we work SmallBasic (more on that later in this post), I am thrilled to see a major enhancement in SmallBasic itself. Kudos to the incredible Vijaye Raji (a developer on our Visual Studio team).  He’s not only created SmallBasic alone and on his own time , but he continues to improve...

Telligent Analytics makes it easy to take data and scope it to a level that makes sense to you and your business. It has never been easier to see PageViews, Active Users or Answer Rates for a specific group within your online community. Watch to learn more... (Please visit the site to view this media) Read More...

Wow what a launch today in Orange, CA!  Thanks to the standing-room only audience this morning.  Because of the crowd size, you were so kind as to send your questions via text messages.  I didn’t have time to answer all of your many questions all at the event, so here are the rest of the answers.  I’ll categorize the questions for easier reading too. General Developer readiness and internals Q: How do I get the Windows API Code pack? A: The new MSDN Channel9 Windows 7 online training...

Odds are that you use Microsoft Word for at least some of your writing needs. When you're ready to move content from Microsoft Word (or any other Microsoft product like Excel or Outlook) into your community, be sure to use our Paste from Word option on the editing toolbar to ensure all the extraneous markup is stripped out. For Telligent Community ( read more about using our advanced editor): (Please visit the site to view this media) For Telligent Enterprise ( read more about using our advanced...

I wasn't blowing smoke up your skirt when I was talking about the great feedback to Gummy Bear.  At the bottom of this post is a screenshot of my inbox of YetAnotherForum.NET forum post notifications over the last couple of days.  And NO, none originated from me.  YAF.NET doesn't have a self-notification "feature."  Inside joke… YetAnotherForum.NET keeps on ticking and I spent a lot of time in it the last couple of days.  I was somehow able to bill 8 hours...

It's been about 48 hours since Gummy Bear has been in the wild and the feedback has been excellent.  The detail of observations tells me that people see Sueetie's potential and are testing every function and reporting each appearance of weirdness they find.  That means a lot, to me personally and to the project being successful. An example of the detailed observations was the default "admin" user not being assigned a Display Name in the site setup script, which was causing...

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It's official, Gummy Bear has been released into the wild.  I received some great feedback on the initial release of Gummy Bear over the last week where a few folks in the Sueetie Forums saw the news, downloaded it, installed it and got back to me.  Exactly what I needed.  Thanks again, guys.  As a result we now have a clean SQL2005 setup script, an improved theming model, and no bugs yet to report. The original release was for 64x-bit systems and I provided 32x-bit DLLs in...

Next week Monday and Wednesday, I’ll be presenting at the MSDN launch events for developers for Windows 7.  Both events are registered full already – however, I am posting my decks here for you.  Also we may be recording one set of launch sessions, if we do so, I’ll post the link to the recording on my blog. Session 1 – Windows 7 Taskbar and Library APIs Windows 7 Developer APIs -Task Bar Libraries View more presentations from lynnlangit . Session 2 – Windows 7 Graphics Enhancements and...

Back in Vermont after a wonderful day at Code Camp 12. A big thanks to Chris Bowen, Chris Pels, Microsoft, and everyone else who helped organize another successful New England Code Camp. I thought I’d share some of the highlights with you in…The Donuts of Code Camp 12. You can view the entire Donuts of Code Camp 12 album on Flickr. Read More...

Coding After Hours. I started this Everyman late tonight because I was doing some Gummy Bear coding, but the older I get the less I want to hammer away all day in Visual Studio then code some more after hours. I guess that’s why I blog so much at night. It’s still geeky but it’s not coding. Ted Dziuba posted I Don’t Code in my Free Time espousing a similar theme, though in his distinctive style. “You know what's more awesome than spending my Saturday afternoon learning Haskell by hacking away...

The pre-release Gummy Bear documentation concludes with three installation items. I say “pre-release” as I’m sure the Gummy Bear experience of users in so many different environments will warrant more Gummy Bear-specific documentation. The three installation items that won the lottery and got their own illustrated documents are The YetAnotherForum.NET Setup Wizard The Gallery Server Pro Setup Wizard Giving Gallery Server Pro Album Read Access to Registered Users Do not fear, the docs are mostly pictures...