July 2009 - Posts
Hey Guys,
I wanted to let everyone know that I have found a replacement for Community Server and Graffiti CMS, so there is absolutely no reason to put up with Telligent anymore. The product is Sitefinity from Telerik. It is a full fledged CMS that that should be 100% compatible with any fully compliant ASP.NET application that you have. You can use it stand-alone, in parallel with any other application, or with an application of your own design. It has blogs, galleries, forums, and about 50 other features, plus the entire Telerik ASP.NET control suite, all in one product. I comes in a free community version and a standard version that is $899/domain.
When I saw everything that it can do, I nearly died. The client that asked me to look into using a CMS, is still salivating at all of its features. Telerik has some partner programs for Sitefinity, so I may work something out with them for future projects. If you want more information, take a look at the following links. I guarantee that you will be impressed:
http://www.sitefinity.com/
http://www.sitefinitywatch.com/
Take it easy,
Bill
P.S. This may be the end of everything Telligent as far as this site is concerned.
Telligent has completely failed the small to mid sized communities. The original promise was for Graffiti CMS to take over this roll, but it is now almost 2 years later and there is still no solution in sight to replace CS 2007 for these communities. Here is the latest post (4/14/2009) on the subject from Telligent, What is the future of Graffiti? After reading the comments, I agree that Telligent has completely lost its focus. In less than a year it appears that they have squandered the $20 million from Intel, just like the failed .COMs of the '90s.
The only viable solution is to make Graffiti CMS an open source project on CodePlex, if it is to survive at all. However, I seriously doubt that that will ever happen. In the comments section of What is the future of Graffiti?, Scott Watermasysk states that they discussed releasing it as open source, but decided against it. Community Server is 100% based on Microsoft's ASP.NET Forums open source project, and we've seen where that has gone. I still have hopes that Telligent will open its eyes and smell the air, or that Intel will do it for them, but this current policy is doomed to fail. Been there, done that, no need to repeat it.
The latest .NET Tweeks post is now out and is the first of a multi-part series of Tweeks that developers can use in their everyday development of ASP.NET applications. This week it covers the PageBase idea and how to integrate it with master pages. Next week will cover an abstract method of accessing the business tier from a static class as opposed to directly accessing the business tier.
.NET Tweeks