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My Theme Contest Entries
Early this morning, just a couple hours before the deadline, I submitted two entries to the theme contest that we (Telligent) have been sponsoring over the past couple of months. One of them, called Pretty in Pink, is a simple "Track 1" style entry (dynamic configuration variation of Lean and…
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Big Fajitas Update (for CS 2007)
Today on the forums a user ( tmiller ) asked about getting the Big Fajitas Report to work with Community Server 2007 . I promised an update in addition to a couple other ideas (BurritoEspecial and Chimichangitas). When I looked at the changes required to get it working with CS2k7, I found they were minimal…
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Morpheus: Integration Scenarios
This morning I decided to take another baby step in the documentation of Morpheus. In this article , I discuss the types of integration scenarios that Morpheus enables and the choices for where to persist Membership data [1]. I still expect to get more developer centric information on the wiki soon….
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Expirations and Service Packs
Since May 15th is just around the corner, I strongly recommend that any sites running *pre-release* versions of Community Server 2007 be upgraded to the final release as soon as possible. This means, if you are running either Beta1, Beta2, or RC1, you should upgrade to the final release. As you may recall…
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Read THE Silverlight blog post
If by chance you're the *one* person who reads my blog yet does not read ScottGu's blog , you definitely missed the best post on Silverlight to date. While many folks have talked/blogged about Silverlight, Scott's post includes all the information you could want in a single place. I definitely…
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Theming Extravaganza
By the time you read this post there will be less than three weeks remaining before the deadline for submissions in the official Community Server 2007 Theming Extravaganza . I've got two different ideas right now…one is pretty simple and the other is a bit more complicated and less well-defined…
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Get Professional Community Server FREE
Tonight we pushed a couple of updates to our new store and download center . One of those changes is that we are now giving away a *free* copy of our new book, Professional Community Server , with every purchase of the Professional Edition of Community Server 2007 (limit one per order, while supplies…
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Community Server is heading to Hawaii…
Earlier this week Scott announced our next set of releases for Community Server 2007 , codenamed Hawaii . While my name almost made it to the final round (Gilligan), I think we settled with a better set of names for what looks to be like another great set of updates. Maui should help enable more of the…
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Member Points System Wish List
For those of you who didn't realize it, *all* purchased versions of Community Server 2007 now include the Member Points System. This means that if you're running the Personal Edition you can use the MPS to begin to track members reputation across your community. Today I posted an overview on…
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Morpheus: An Overview
Today I wrote up the first *official* information about Morpheus in our new wiki. While just an overview, it should answer the initial set of questions I'm often asked. More developer centric information is coming soon as I expect to continue these posts over the next couple days. Specifically, I'll…
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Community Server Catch Up…
Believe it or not, it's already May! I can't believe how fast this year has gone! Since it's been a couple weeks since I last posted, I figured I'd play a little catch up. My Community Server Contest deadline has been extended until May 28th due to too few submissions The Official Community…
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Community Server 2007 Now Available!
While I'm certainly late to the party , yesterday we announced the final release of Community Server 2007 . In addition to finalizing the RTM version, we've spent the last couple weeks wrapping up the new store and download center . Many have already begun to purchase, download, and install CS2K7…
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Community Server 2007 Contest
After what seemed like forever, today I got back from lunch to find a box with my free author copies of Professional Community Server . I had been waiting for a while since I wanted to use one of the copies as a prize for a mini-contest I am hoping to run off this blog (outlined below). I guess the timing…
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CommunityServer.org gets a facelift
As we wind our way down to the final release of Community Server 2007 (still on target for April 16th) we took the next step today…updating communityserver.org . In addition to a brand new site-wide theme there are some other goodies that are worth mentioning. We've added the Showcase blog to highlight…
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Catching up on Community Server
Since it's been a while since I last blogged, here's some quick links about what's going on: Community Server 2007 Beta 2 was released last week We have an updated Wiki with "cleaner" documentation (work-in-progress) The CS product team has an opening on our large sites team Initial…