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Thus far, I've been avoiding installing Visual Studio 2008 on my desktop for one reason... I am dreading going back to the dual Visual Studio version days. I hated back when Visual Studio 20...
With the release of Visual Studio 2008, I went and installed it on my laptop and have been starting to play around with .NET 3.5, LINQ, and also doing some IIS7 managed modules. The recent upgra...
As it has been previously establish, I handle a couple of servers and a small network in a Sacramento datacenter. I had set up all kinds of internal monitoring on bandwidth, server health, etc.&...
Last night, the latest edition of Tellicast was posted, including a sneak peak of Graffiti, the new light weight CMS product by Telligent. Graffiti is being geared at small to medium sized busin...
Last night, the latest edition of Tellicast was posted, including a sneak peak of Graffiti, the new light weight CMS product by Telligent. Graffiti is being geared at small to medium sized busin...
Today, we announced the pre-release of Community Server 2007 SP3. Why a pre-release? First, check out the announcement and note the huge list of fixes and enhancements. This drawfs t...
About two weeks ago, the first Community Server Developers Conference was announced for October 20th/21st in Dallas. Obviously, all the Dallas folk will be there (since it is in Dallas), an...
Earlier today I posted the first article in a series I'd previously mentioned. This article is about common issues that people encounter when setting up Forms Authentication. It talks ...
I'm working on coming up with a series of posts to make explaining how to use some of our Single Sign On (SSO) modules in various scenarios. The series will be developer-oriented, so ra...
Pleased to finally release the build of Qgyen.Lightbox for Community Server 2007! Sometimes can be a little slow getting my little modules updated to new releases, so figured I might as well get...
I've really been getting up to speed on using MSBuild and think I have a very nice base set of build scripts. I basically took the scripts from Carel Lotz's series and created a nice set...
Lately, I've been looking into getting up to speed with continuous integration after watching the recent dnrTV with Jay Flowers and CI Factory. At Telligent, we've had a continuous integ...
Today, the Community Server 2007 Theming Extravaganza was announced. Definitely something to check out! The contest has two different "tracks" or categories you can enter. The fi...
Earlier today, we posted CS 2007 Beta2. Coming soon, the add-ons. Tomorrow, I think should also try and get some of those skins I've done posted, and probably post my Lightbox module fo...
After doing some digging, I managed to figure out what turns out to be a pretty good solution to ReSharper not playing well with SubSonic. Ultimately, the annoyances fall down to ReSharper's...
Sometimes when I decompile some code I find, it can be really interesting and odd to de-construct the thought patterns of some developers. In this case, I was experiencing a bug with an ASP.NET ...
This weekend, I was trying to do just this and after scowering Google, I was quite surprised not to find any blog posts or articles addressing this. So here is my little tidbit and my hope Googl...
Today, we announced the official release of CS 2007 Beta1. Definitely go check it out! We will be posting beta builds of the add-ons soon as well. Those will most likely go live tomo...
So, I'd mentioned last week how I was going to be moving. Well, almost a week later, and this where we are: Moved in, though was a very long day. Moving out of a third floor apartment...
1 day left! Til what? No, no Community Server beta or anything. Tomorrow, Trish and I are finally moving into a house! We're just renting it (didn't buy), but still, ...
Most of the other Telligent bloggers have already mentioned it, though I thought I'd throw in my mention. Ben has started posting a series on skinning in Chameleon, the codename for the them...
One interesting thing with CS 3.0 is that there really isn't going to be a need for my Qgyen.ExtendedUrlMapping control. While the module doesn't allow for some more configurable options...
So if you actually visit my site, might notice it looks a little difference. For starters, using a new skin. I found this nice little web template and turned it into a CS skin. The big cha...
I've been seeing this phenom going around the blogosphere, and was safe up until today. Scott tagged me. In the sixth grade, I played baseball for one year, and only one year. I had a...
A while ago, I traded up from my XV6700 to a Motorola Q as a result of some of the charactistics of the 6700. After using the Q for a short while now, beginning to wonder if it actually is any b...
Had an odd happening when I went out to lunch today. I went to get a sandwich from Togo's, and this ensued... - Walk in and this guy who just finished paying recognizes me. Him: "Hey!&nb...
Found out today that a CardSpace module for FireFox has been released by Kevin Miller. The previous FireFox module wasn't actually for CardSpace, it is a separate implementation of the same Info...
Here is one way to instantly get your software knocked of my list of programs I use... Last night, I was going to check out a free schematic and PCB design program I'd heard about called WinQcad. ...
Sitting here working on some code for my little project (after getting my little development board working last night) and was cleaning up some sample code I had downloaded when I realized exactly how...
For a while now I've been using Subversion locally for version control on some of my small projects, but recently realized that I've been using it in a way that many people may not know is possible.&n...
Today, SP2 for Community Server v2.1 was posted (announcement on communityserver.org). This is mostly an update for a collection of bugs and issues that have been found since SP1, but it does al...
The recent revivement of my interest in embedded systems prompted me to rejoin this mailing list I used to subscribe to several years ago. It has reminded me just how much mailing lists truly do...
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a little utility for Community Server that would export attachments that were saved in the CS database to the filesystem, allowing you to shrink your database. I c...
A while ago, I had blogged about writing my own newMediaObject implementation for Community Server, and was a bad bad man because I never posted it. Well now there is finally official support...
Yesterday they finally had the .NET Framework 3.0 official release! I have been awaiting the final release for a while now so some sites and CardSpace implementations could be made on the final ...
Today, both Rob and Scott blogged about designing for usability compared to designing for scalability/performance. I I completely agree with Scott's opinion, that developers are too concerne...
I hate Comcast. I've posted before about how much I dislike them. Now they've gone and ruined my ideal testing environment. I am a total fan of using virtual machines. I spin a new o...
One thing I can't really resist getting amusement from the is the development cycle of Helm 4, the Windows hosting control panel suite by Web Host Automation. A while ago, I was looking for...
As Rick announced yesterday, started October 30th, he will be joining the Telligent Support Team! Rick (aka "The Wizard" on the CommunityServer.org) is one of the CS MVPs and was previ...
Scott had posted earlier about being in San Francisco the second week of November for a conference and was planning on having a CS MeetUp the night of November 9th to meet and talk about Community Ser...
Recently, I had an idea for a new CSModule that would make it so that comments to blog posts would show up immediately after being posted, instead of having to wait for the cache to be cleared. ...
TypeMock is absolutely awesome. No, no, it is sexy. It is dead sexy. TypeMock has opened up a whole new world for me in unit tests. Scott Hanselman's podcast on mock objects ca...
Kevin came to me the other day and was asking about whether I knew of a good way to efficiently extract the dimensions of 100+ images. He said he was starting to look at the System.Drawing ...
Today, Jeff Atwood posted the Fonts and Colors settings file for his Visual Studio color scheme, and I have to say, I love it! After seeing one of his older posts with a screenshot of his IDE, I...
Qgyen.AllCommentRss v1.0.60918 A while ago, I had released my module to add an RSS feed for comments across an entire blog, geared for blog owners. One of the frequently requested enhancements ...
How many of you out there buy developer tools out of your own pocket? Could range from ReSharper, profiler (was checking that out a while ago, pretty cool), or a library like a set of charting t...
Some people have emailed me about having trouble with Windows Live Writer detecting the style of their CS site, some of them thinking it was because they were using my ExtendedUrlMapper. I'd run into ...
Scott "The Tool Man" Hanselman just posted his 2006 Ultimate Developer/Power Users Tool List. One of the ones on the list that I have been falling in love with that is incredibly simpl...
After reading some of the reviews on CodeRush, and finally getting around to seeing Scott Hanselman's Developer Productivity Tools 4 video, I decided to finally give CodeRush a try. On the surfac...
Quite a while ago, I'd made a reference that I'd written an extension to Community Server's MetaWeblog API to enable the use of the newMediaObject function, but to my recent realization, I never relea...
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