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Back in 2006 and when I was writing my CS Dev Guide post series, I wrote a part about writing spam rules for Community Server. Speaking of Waegis and my recent wrestling with spam rule integrations for Community Server 2007.1 and 2008, I thought it's worthwhile to revisit that post and talk about some changes in a new post. Since Community Server 2007.1 Telligent applied Dynamic Configuration to spam rules and replaced the traditional configuration. Last week I introduced Dynamic Configurations...

This would be one of the announcements that I make public on a regular basis and every a few months! During the past three months, I've been working on a big project and an enterprise platform/solution that I'm going to introduce now. More than all its side-effects I enjoyed the development process from the early stages to the current point and would love the rest as well. Although I started the development in the recent three months but the idea and the mind work were with me for almost...

There is no doubt that MetaWeblog API is one of the very helpful and popular inventions around online publishing especially for blog engines and services. Of course MetaWeblog API has not been a tool only for blogs because it's used as a general publishing service for others sites as well. During the time, MetaWeblog API is extended by some famous blogging engines and services like Blogger and WordPress to add some common features to it but the core features are what many users are looking for...

In my Jobs Management app built on Community Server I needed to display job documents. Another in-house Document Management application already had a page that displayed documents based on jobs, so instead of designing original Chameleon controls as usual, why not iframe in an existing document management application page with some slight editing and styling. There were security rules that could be easily handled by going with an iframe as well. The result was that we could add job document support...

Three years ago, a friend of my family's teenage son was diagnosed with cancer, and was given fairly bleak chances of making it through the ordeal. It was a crushing blow to the family. For the full story, read the ESPN piece on Mason (he's the last story). Mason would go on to conquer the cancer inside his body, and has been cancer free for a couple of years now. Against all odds. And it was during this time that he reached out to one of my idols, Lance Armstrong...the 2 had a bit of dialogue...

This is for folks working with the CS2008 SDK who would use the cs_4.0_CreateFullDatabase.sql script to create the Community Server 2008 database. Scroll to the end of the file where you'll find the cs_system_CreateCommunity stored procedure. In the past we ran this separately after the install or update script completed. The sqlScripts\HowTo.txt instructs us to run the CreateCommunity script after the install script like prior versions of CS, but you want to ignore that and instead modify the...

I'm way behind on my Community Server forums reading, so this has probably been covered. Community Server 2008 displays a personalized home page for registered users. Anonymous and users not logged-in see the welcome page. Below is the new personalized home page on a virginal CS2008 site. On a client CS2008 site I'm theming and configuring we want all users to see the welcome page all the time, like in prior versions of Community Server. I was thinking I'd have to do something tricky...

Microsoft ASP.NET MVP, active member of ASP Alliance and owner and founder of GridViewGuy , Mohammad Azam , announced his new site on his blog today. Refactor Code is a new simple site that targets developers audience to help them refactor their code or find the refactored code for common scenarios. As he has described in the about page of the site, this site tries to let developers share their existing code and ask others to refactor and improve it. Others can also simply search and find the refactored...