August 2006 - CS MVP Bloggers

In case you've been running the beta of Windows Media Player for some time and are pulling your hair out at the number of bugs it has, you may be pleased to know Microsoft has today released Beta 2! You can grab it from here . Read More...

The culmination of the events from the past few weeks (months actually) have lead to some unwanted side effects, and I've decided that now is a good time to...well, take some time off and unplug for a bit. Unplugging as in literally pulling the plug from my machine and heading off into some well deserved Jay time. Alone. Sans computers and internet and all of that fun stuff. I'm just taking a hiatus to go off and better myself. Think " Walden " or other such nonsense, though I will never achieve...

Some ages ago, when new FeedBurner site had been launched, I wanted to write a component for FeedBurner APIs in .NET but we know "Tomorrow is far away"! Now FeedBurner is a famous site and many users use their services around the web. When Scott Watermasysk opened a feature item for Community Server to add external feed functionality to Community Server 2.1, I commented for him about category feeds and he replied back we should assume this feature just for main feeds. The necessity to have something...

The last week, many of us have seen a large increase of spam comments sent to our Community Server blogs. That has given us the opportunity to learn how CS Spam rules work, and to see what a great job they do if configured correctly. And you might also have heard about the Akisment module in the Alabaster package that further adds to the CS Spam rules capability. So if you're running CS 2.1 on your blog, you can give those spammer a hard time. Personally I don't understand the purpose of...

If you're like me and have taken the leap to run Windows Vista, and also like me, you need to be able to mount ISO or BIN images, you might have found it difficult to find some software that works. I usually use Daemon Tools , but have been presented with many warning and problems trying to install it. I went in search of something that worked reliably and found this cool, and free little tool called MagicISO . It installed with no fuss and works great using the latest Vista build, 5536. Read More...

I just uncovered this cool little feature and thought I would write about it. If you set a tag or tags in the Default Aggregate Tags box then only blog posts with those tags selected will show on the Blogs Aggregate page and also in the Blogs RSS feed...

Here's my 3rd screencast, today I'm talking about how the migrator has become pluginable. View Video Format: wmv Duration: 7 Minutes 14 Seconds Read More...

Steven Smith announced ASP Alliance Simple CMS as an ASP.NET 2.0 plugin which can be added to any ASP.NET 2.0 website with Atlas and Atlas control toolkit installed. Simple CMS following features (via Steven's blog): Allows creation and editing of virtual pages via a web interface Several ATLAS features included SEO optimized – allows any URL name, title, keyword, description tags Master Page Support Theme Support Rich Editor (FreeTextBox) Plug-In architecture – no code changes required in underlying...