June 2006 - CS MVP Bloggers

After coming back to home (where he was?!), today Hamed had linked to a nice physical bot to represent the status of contacts in Instant Messengers. It has been named Availabot . In a nutshell: Availabot is a physical representation of presence in Instant Messenger applications. Availabot plugs into your computer by USB , stands to attention when your chat buddy comes online, and falls down when they go away. It’s a presence-aware, peripheral-vision USB toy… and because the puppets are made in small...

Today a topic that most of you already might know how to do. How to create a poll in Community Server 2.0. But still, evey now and then the question pops up in the forums. So I thought I'll do a post on it. Another reason for doing this post, was to examine if I could post screencasts here at weblogs.asp.net in anyway, and also play around with making screencasts in my newly bought SnagIt application (will probably blog about SnagIt in a upcoming post, since it a great tool for screenshots and much...

Well, so far I talked about all important aspects of Weblog APIs in Community Server (except new tagging feature in Community Server 2.1 which I’ll talk about it after release date because it can have some changes). As post attachments are an important part of most of Community Server applications such as Weblog, Forum, File Gallery and Photo Gallery, I want to talk about them in this post before going to complete my discussion about Weblog. Blog post attachments, forum thread attachments, file gallery...

Today CSMVP's.com offically became LIVE . ( Offical News Article ) Keyvan and I made the Meet the MVP's page, and I made the showcase on the main page, if you didn't already know Here's a quote from the blog post Welcome to CSMVPs.Com Now CSMVPs.Com is live! Introduction to Community Server MVP’s? Here wants to be the community of all Community Server Most Valued Professionals (aka CS MVP’s). CS MVP’s are some guys (currently 14 guys) who are chosen by Telligent as a group of individuals who are...

I believe that the File Galleries that came as a feature built-in in CS 2.0 was a great feature. Now I can offer download area for my users a little bit like download.com. I can also see how many users have downloaded the files, and how many has read it's description. Users can also comment on the file entry as they can for a blog post. But as with many things currently in CS there's more "under the hood". The feature I am talking about I haven't found in any docs, and I haven't stumbled on it until...

Rich Mercer (a Community Server MVP) was kind enough to register and donate CSMVPS.com to the CS MVP group, so sure enough we’re getting a site set up where you can “get to know” your CS MVPs. It’s still very much in the inception phase, but for now we’ve at least got all of the MVP blogs mirrored for easy one stop shopping to catch up on what we’ve been writing about. It’s worth mentioning that this will not be a strictly CS related site, rather a place...

Finally Microsoft announced CodePlex. CodePlex is a new collaborative development portal which can host shared code projects and give them many great features such as Forums, Issue Tracker, Source Code manager and … CodePlex is completely integrated with Team Foundation Server. Developers can use Team Explorer to contribute in their projects. As Darren said here , also you can use a free client named Turtle (it’s hosted on CodePlex itself) to deal with Team Foundation Server from other platforms...

Time seems to move a lot faster these days. I don’t know if it’s the amount of chaos going on in my life these days, or if it’s the run-up to summer (oh wait, you mean it’s here already!). But the fact is, the last few months have flown by for me, and I hardly had time to sleep, much less stop to think clearly enough to write a coherent post. Speaking of sleep, wouldn’t it be much better if it weren’t necessary? I could gain an extra 6 hours a day to accomplish the things I want to do. (Yes, I’ve...