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Dan Bartels

Going Mac

Posted 8 months ago

by DanB
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On a recent trip to Microsoft, I found myself getting heckled for my trusty notebooks "Vista Basic" sticker. A Toshiba Protege M700 which has served me well, has been upgraded to 4gb ram and an SSD, but shows its age because it has video driver...
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Sign-up to try the new Office 365 Preview

Posted 10 months ago

by DanB
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Yesterday Microsoft launched a beta of the new version of Microsoft Office 365. http://youtu.be/J-3uK2bRNnE I found the preivew links were fairly well hidden... Sign up for the preview / beta here http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/en/try-office...
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Microsoft DNS for developers - .local wildcard

Posted over 1 year ago

by DanB
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Wouldn't it be great if the internet gods created a DNS top level domain for .local with a wildcard dns a record to 127.0.0.1... If you don't know what that would do, it would make any dns name ending in .local point to your local system... IE...
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Big Social Developer Jam - Widget Plug-ins

Posted over 2 years ago

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Just putting some finishing touches on my Developer Jam item. Well a bit of background... What is the Big Social? That's our 2011 Telligent Conference that kicks off next week in Dallas... ( http://telligent.com/bigsocial/ ) What is a Developer Jam...
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Telligent Community List Users In Role

Posted over 3 years ago

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The Telligent Community / Community Server control panel doesn't expose a nice list of users in a particular role, but for auditing purposes its sometimes useful to be able to view all members in a role. If you have access to the database and SQL knowledge...
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Telligent Evolution 5.5 Export Theme to SQL

Posted over 3 years ago

by DanB
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The Telligent Evolution Platform starting with version 5 has begun to store considerable amounts of the "Theme" configuration in the database. Its is often necessary to take the theme configuration from one environment and apply it to another, or modify...
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Telligent Community 5.5 Sandbox Fiji Theme Variations

Posted over 3 years ago

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When working with Telligent Community Sandbox sites, I find it useful to create a couple of theme variations to help illustrate the power of Group and Blog themes, and the differences between the widget "Save as Default" and "Save Contextually" options...
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Copying Theme Configuration and Widget Layouts

Posted over 4 years ago

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If you are running the new Telligent Community 5 (formerly known as Community Server 5 or CS5) or the new Telligent Enterprise 2 (formerly known as Community Server Evolution 2 or Evo2) and need to move your dynamic theme configurations and changes between...
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Adding a site wide widget

Posted over 4 years ago

by DanB
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Starting with CS2008 telligent introduced the ContentFragementList as well as several out of the box widgets. This is pretty much old news, but I thought it would be good to cover a very basic scenario... User story: An admin of a site wants the ability...
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Installing telnet.exe on Windows 2008 Server

Posted over 4 years ago

by DanB
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Open a command window and run servermanagercmd -install telnet-client and your windows will install telnet for you. Dan
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Using the Telligent.Tasks service to send CommunityServer Emails

Posted over 5 years ago

by DanB
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Telligent has a Windows Service job which can be run to offload some of the Tasks / Job processing from your web server... The most common configuration is to use the task server for running the Enterprise Search Indexing jobs, although you could use...
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Web browsers are good, everyone should have one

Posted over 5 years ago

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Yes, well now it seems like everyone is making one; and many users have two or three... Google has launched Chrome http :// www . google .com/chrome the latest development in the browser wars... We have IE8 shaping up (currently in beta 2 form) and Firefox...
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CS Membership for the Membershipless

Posted over 5 years ago

by DanB
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From time to time I find myself pulling down a live Community Server database for testing. When the database also has a remote membership system it can be very time consuming to try to download and configure both a CS database and a Membership system...
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Integrating Graffiti Logins with an asp.net datastore (like CommunityServer)

Posted over 5 years ago

by DanB
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As announced way back at CSDC 07 ( http :// kevinharder .com/ blog /live- blogging -the- csdc -part-3/ ) graffiti was designed to be able to integrate directly with an existing asp.net membership store... the key is in the configuration.... So first thing...
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CS REST in Javascript

Posted over 5 years ago

by DanB
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CS Rest Endpoints return XML, but JSON is much cooler for working with the data in javascript, you can get the results back in JSON and actually iterate through collections and such... To convert the data to JSON, in leu of server calls to do this, Thomas...
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Color outside the lines with the CS API

Posted over 5 years ago

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With the release of CS2008, we have released the REST webservice code for the first time... This webservice has a client API which is used by the server, and actually is in the bin folder of your CS site... CommunityServer.WebServices.dll. Referencing...
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Online Music - Great Free Service - Pandora.com

Posted over 5 years ago

by DanB
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I have enjoyed streaming a vast variety of Internet music for some time... I like the ability to discover new artists and music as well as a nearly infinite selection of styles and artists to suit my mood. I have to say of all of the services I have tried...
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Improve Vista Performance

Posted over 5 years ago

by DanB
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Ran across these couple of tips on the Internet the other day, and thought I would pass them along... First, my own tip, make sure you have the latest video driver installed... chances are pretty good that your video card is the lowest ranked item in...
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ScriptResource.axd Time Sensative

Posted over 5 years ago

by DanB
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In CS 2008 we have our javascript files linked through the scriptresource . axd handler. This is very similar to the webresource . axd handler in that it serves content from within a dll . The gotcha is that the scriptresource handler will throw an exception...
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Windows Vista SP1 RC1 Released

Posted over 6 years ago

by DanB
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Microsoft has made the current release of Vista RC1 available to early adoptors via Windows Update or as a stand alone download (~850mb). http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=9de6260e-4275-482d-9524-de850c4dd91c&DisplayLang=en...
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Kevin Harder Live Blogging the CSDC

Posted over 6 years ago

by DanB
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We are having an awesome time at the Community Server Developers conference, developers from around the country world have converged to hear about the future and direction of Telligent development. Kevin Harder has been blogging the event for those who...
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Win2008 RC0 install fails x8007045d

Posted over 6 years ago

by DanB
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The current installer locks access to the disk open, so if you did something, like asked it to "format" your disk prior to installing Windows Server 2008, the format process will silently fail, the copy files will silently fail, and you will get a x8007045d...
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Amazon Mp3 has arrived (public beta)

Posted over 6 years ago

by DanB
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As I speculated based on internet rumors nearly a year ago ( http :// blog . danbartels .com/archive/2006/12/26/good-bye-yahoo-music-hello- zune . aspx ) Amazon has jumped into the online music sales foray... Now you didn't need to be psychic to guess...
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Extracting ExtendedAttributes via SQL

Posted over 6 years ago

by DanB
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In Community Server, several of our classes derive from the ExtendedAttributes class. This class creates a list of name value pairs on the class, and is picked off by our data layer and stored into two NTEXT columns in the table, PropertyNames, and PropertyValues...
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Show your CS2007 stuff and Win

Posted over 6 years ago

by DanB
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Telligent is having a little contest to see who can build the best theme for CS... There are a couple of contests actually, one showcasing our new theme / markup system for full site themes, and another to creatively use the "export" option of our dynamic...

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