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March 2005 - Posts

I want blog aggregation in my browser
So long ago, I loaded my Google toolbar, and noticed the little "Blog This!" button... Being naive at the time, I thought that Google, was going to take and start a public discussion thread about any and all pages on the internet available to anyone with Read More...

Unauthorized access exception in CS FTB Image Gallery
If you are seeing this error when trying to delete files or having problems with thumbnails not showing properly when adding files, you might have the problem described below... You have set the gallery to store the images in the file system, and have Read More...

Keyboard Shortcuts in Virtual PC
For those of you using this tool, you might find these keyboard shortcuts useful. Virtual PC provides much of the required keyboard functionality through the use of a host key and key combinations. By default the host key is the right ALT key . You use Read More...

CSS Skinning for Handhelds
So after that awesome expierence of posting a blog from my phone (good thing I had a bluetooth keyboard at least) it got me thinking... The CS Admin skin was not bad, better than my default blog skin on my phone, but really shouldnt I be able to lighten Read More...

Dave, Julia Says Hi!
I ran into Julia Lerman at the ineta booth, and we got talking. I told her I was looking to hook up with Rob Howard, and that I was using and customizing his blog engine... She said I should look you up, because you would be a good resource for .Text Read More...

Return of the Thick Client - Kablam - eh?
If you weren't there then you missed it.... Michele's favorite color 128, 255, 128 #80FF80 [Self proclaimed green, but more of a seafoam if you ask me]... But on a serious note, she covered some normal UI design considerations, things that should be elementary, Read More...

Off to DevConnections in Orlando
I am heading out for the week, down to Orlando... www.devconnections.com To listen to the latest from Rob, Michelle and the other Regional Directors headed down there. I hope to get an update and maybe even a few pictures from my phone, but I will have Read More...

Gallery Success
I was able to hack the FTP image gallery to point to a CS gallery... the code deserves much more cleanup but some of you might find it useful as is... To make this work... Follow the current hack at http://communityserver.org/forums/475849/ShowPost.aspx Read More...

Adding Images to your Blog
This was one of those things that was supposed to be easy, that turned out to be hard. It started with a glitch introduced by moving my blog to the root and then trying to host the galleries below the blog root... I resolved that issue (all it took was Read More...

CSS IE vs Firefox Float Bug
There is a bug in IE that causes it to double the margin settings for floated div blocks… to fix it you just put display:inline in your style tag for float div… Also, if your float div content is larger (longer) than your content div you need to wrap Read More...

Category RSS and Comment RSS For Blogs at the Root FIX
From a post at http://www.communityserver.org/forums/476881/ShowPost.aspx mastermaq has found a way to fix the feed links "Category RSS and Comment RSS always return the error "Redirection limit for this URL exceeded." I had this problem with the main Read More...

CS Galleries Fix - For Blogs at the Root
I wanted to have multiple galleries and was having trouble getting them to work after I moved my blog to the root... The key was to remove the ApplicationKey from the configuration for configurations below the root... See you are hard coding an ApplicationKey Read More...

CS Broken Links
OK, so I noticed that my blog has been a bit quiet lately, in surfing my own site, it looks like the URL parser is broken, so my visitors cant get very far past my home page... Sorry about that... Specifically it looks like there is a problem with the Read More...

The CS Migration - Skinning
So far, there has not been too much in the way of challenges skinning the site... I just made a copy of the Luxinterior folder and called it Tranquility, and started hacking it up from there. The rules are pretty much the same, the old controls folder Read More...

My Migration to Community Server Blogs from .Text
My goal was to replicate the blog functionality and site as closely as possible to my original .Text install... I may use the gallery in the future, but am not so interested in the forum code at the moment. So here is what I did to get it this far... Read More...

Testing PostEditor
Just testing the FreeTextBox 3 licensed changes to the Post Editor... I still need to figure out the galleries for the image uploader, and get the style to apply, but at least I have spell checking... Can you believe they didn't include netspell by default? Read More...

My first CS Blog
This is a test just to see where everything goes Read More...

My Second CS BLOG
This is my second post to http://www.microsoft.com Read More...

Community Server 1.0 - Released with source

Well, thats what I get for taking a vacation...  I miss the party, but know what I will be doing this weekend... =)

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