I received this email from my pal SB Chatterjee so I'm doing my part to spread the word for the first Hartford, Connecticut Code Camp Call for Speakers. I'm not sure yet if I can make it, since I'm not seeing anything about a Saturday Night Geek Party... ----------------------- From: CTDOTNET...
The subtitle of this post is "Keeping up with Keyvan." The guy is definitely a high octane .NET developer. I told him how excited I was about his work on an ASP.NET Task Scheduler and as a result have been made an honorary participant in The Abidar Project (Keyvan comes up with the best names...
My wife and daughter are out of town for a week visiting her folks, leaving me "alone with my work." And I've been banging out a lot of code. Today's 10 hours were spent working toward the goal of converting dynamically generated ASPX Job Slips in my Community Server-based Jobs Management...
I sling a lot of data in and out of my Jobs Management Application and this afternoon's slinging consisted of Job Estimate data from Microsoft Access. The process occurs through a Community Server background task and consists of three steps. 1) Request the List<Business Object>, 2) Retrieve...
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...
I've created a few custom Community Server link controls in my day deriving from WrappedContentBase that display a modal window when clicked. They're smart and efficient, but I didn't like the fact that when doing a mouseover the cursor did not change to...the hand. Certainly I could make...
Community Server background tasks are great and I've created a lot of them. There's one thing about background tasks that can cause problems, however. When the website process stops so do all of its background tasks. I was designing a task today on my Community Server-based Jobs Management Application...
I always jump at the chance to work with Community Server Chameleon Group controls, as they are powerful, flexible and fun! An example of a Chameleon Group control out of the box is the display of blogs by blog group as shown here at communityserver.org. Chameleon Group controls provide context for the...
One of the Community Server projects I manage is designed to be replicated many times. Don't worry, the licenses have already been purchased. :-) That's not my concern. What is my concern is scaling out the site as efficiently as possible, and that efficiency has a lot to do with Chameleon and...
I see this question from time to time, where someone wants to provide several PayPal buttons on a Community Server page. This is actually a .NET issue, since each PayPal button is contained in a separate form, and only one form is supported on a .NET page, but Community Server is .NET (at its best -...