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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...

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...

There are some great tools built into Community Server. TelliCast #32 highlights some of the things we've done to make your life easier. In this video we talk about blogging with Windows Live Writer, using blog file storage, tweaking images with the attribute editor and we show how we write our video posts. View Video Format: wmv Duration: 13:45 Download Video Read More...

Ken Robertson is a Telligent developer and spends a few minutes with us in Episode 31 giving a short demo of how easy it is to install and set up Graffiti. I gathered the following steps from his excellent work: 1. Set up web host. 2. Change connection string in web.config to point to provided blank file-based db (unless you like the default data). 3. FTP small 7.5 MB upload to host 4. Grab snack and maybe a Dew 5. Navigate to site in your favorite browser 6. Say to yourself, "Boom - now I'm...

TelliCast #30 finds us visiting with Dan Bartels who has spent significant time over the last year working on Community Server's REST API. REST uses HTTP posts, gets, heads, puts and deletes to manipulate data within a Community Server implementation. We learn that Dan wrote the REST implementation under, perhaps, a little duress? You can hardly tell... View Video Format: wmv Duration: 8:29 Download Video Read More...

TelliCast #30 finds us visiting with Dan Bartels who has spent significant time over the last year working on Community Server's REST API. REST uses HTTP posts, gets, heads, puts and deletes to manipulate data within a Community Server implementation. We learn that Dan wrote the REST implementation under, perhaps, a little duress? You can hardly tell... View Video Format: wmv Duration: 8:29 Download Video Read More...

In episode 29, José Lema will let us in on some of the new things you'll find in Community Server 2008. A big focus has been placed on groups and social networking features. We've revamped private messages by building a new messaging system that breaks such conversations out of forums and makes messaging a stand-alone feature. We've also brought some concepts from Graffiti into Community Server including UI widgets and drag-and-drop UI manipulation. So, in short, CS2008 is going to be...

As the intro says, "We'd like to thank you for selecting the director commentary feature of this video..." In TelliCast #28, we share some pictures and fun times from Telligent's first three years. Please note that we don't have an audio only version of this TelliCast. View Video Format: wmv Duration: 12:25 Download Video Read More...

Rob Howard visits with Eric " The Prophet " Smith of CodeSmith Tools in TelliCast #27. Eric shares the history of CodeSmith relating how it came to be and also discusses how CodeSmith generates code, what templates come out of the box and where to get more information if you want to build your own custom templates for code generation. View Video Format: wmv Duration: 8:19 Download Video Read More...

There are a few things you should consider when deploying CS2007. We sat down with David Penton again this week (btw, we're very thankful for David Penton ) and talked about basic SQL setup and tracking and planning for growth. It's good stuff. When you think of a question, and we're sure you will, be sure to post it below so we can go back to David and get him break it down for us. View Video Format: wmv Duration: 16:17 Download Video Read More...

There are a few things you should consider when deploying CS2007. We sat down with David Penton again this week (btw, we're very thankful for David Penton ) and talked about basic SQL setup and tracking and planning for growth. It's good stuff. When you think of a question, and we're sure you will, be sure to post it below so we can go back to David and get him break it down for us. View Video Format: wmv Duration: 16:17 Download Video Read More...

In TelliCast #25 we visit with David Penton and talk about how Community Server was improved between CS2007 and CS2007.1. Why was that a "dot" release after SP2 versus just being an SP3? If you're running CS2007 but aren't on CS2007.1, you'll want to hear about the major improvements that were introduced with .1. View Video Format: wmv Duration: 12:02 Download Video Read More...

In TelliCast #24 we're thankful for family and friends and Telligent. We wish you the most joyous of holiday seasons. Happy Thanksgiving! View Video Format: wmv Duration: 6:00 Download Video Read More...