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Keyvan Nayyeri has launched his project today, something he calls “ The Web Cleaner ”. The official name is Waegis and it’s a service to filter out spam. Alpha testing BloggingAbout.NET joined the alpha process and we were extremely happy with the results of Waegis. To start with, installation is a breeze...
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Now that was a smooth transition. Within minutes BloggingAbout.NET was upgraded from version 2007.1 to Community Server 2008. We've gotten a brand new license from the great folks over at Telligent , the folks behind Community Server . For logged in users, the frontpage will show recent activity...
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Before installing Community Server 2007 I wanted to customize the look and feel of it a bit, so it wouldn't be the standard CS2007 skin. Luckily there was a theme competition at Community Server and Kevin Harder created a great skin. I've installed it and you can look at it right here...
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Recently I've installed a search provider for IE7 on BloggingAbout.NET. This means that on every page here you should be able to search this site using the search box in the upper-right corner of your IE7 browser. You can also install it into IE7 and use it while you're not at our community site. Although...
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I wanted to see if the newMediaObject module, offered by the Community Server team, had benefits over my current implementation. Although I still have to figure out why, the implementation we had running kept creating copies of the media objects when re-publishing something. After updating, this doesn...
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Just upgraded Community Server 2.1 to Service Pack 1, downtime was only a few minutes. Thanks Telligent. Be sure to check out Blogmailr.com if you want to blog using e-mail, for free. I still prefer Windows Live Writer though for the features, the SDK and the great preview you get, when your skin is...
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Since last night's upgrade, BloggingAbout.NET supports Windows Live Writer 100%. And I really love writing new articles with WLW, especially now it can automatically 'upload' images as well. Here are the steps to take when you want to join in on the fun. Download and install Windows Live Writer. Latest...
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Until a few hours ago, BloggingAbout.NET ran on ASP.NET 1.1. For multiple reasons I wanted to upgrade to ASP.NET 2.0, one of them being that most Community Server addons are released ASP.NET 2.0 only. So I've created an exact copy of BloggingAbout.NET on my laptop and prepared the upgrade. And although...
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At this community with some beautiful members who like to blog here, we had a serious problem. Spam comments. I've blogged about it before and others as well. So when reading the article about the CS Spam Blocker by Jayson Knight , I read that comments marked as spam would be deleted automatically. So...
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We're getting some serious comment spam at the moment. Just today I've already received a couple of hundred comments that Community Server marked as spam. Although none of them pass the great spam filter(s), it's still very irritating. Here are some tips that can help people that use Community Server...
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Community Server just keeps getting better and better, providing more features then I could even imagine to incorporate into a product like this. Some features that our bloggers will probably notice most: FreeTextBox The editor that was installed since version CS 2.0 with the advanced feature to upload...
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Monday, august 14 2006, 12:30 CET Let's upgrade to Community Server 2.1. More info on new features can be found here . Monday, augsut 14 2006, 14:07 CET Well, finally all files are uploaded. The SQL update wasn't hard and took only a few minutes. Uploading so many files took much longer, but we're back...