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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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TAGS When you've installed Community Server on Windows 2008 and especially are running under IIS7, you'll probably get some problems with at least your tags. Community Server will throw a 404 "Page not found" error on tags with spaces. If that's the case, open up your web.config...
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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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I don't know if you can find them, but I have no idea how to get to the login page and/or register account page via some link, on weblogs.asp.net and blogs.msdn.com. A lot of blogs have anonymous comments turned off, therefor you might want to register or login. Another reason is subscribing to new comment...
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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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Hi all, a couple of days ago I came across a posting about a bug in URL Rewriting which will totally remove your site from google. Here is the scoop: http://communityserver.org/forums/536640/ShowThread.aspx The title of the threat is appropriately named: How to disappear from Google, Yahoo, MSN etc....
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Logik! was the one who started with a wish list for Community Server 3.0. I don't know if others have picked this up, but I have some wishes for myself. Let's see: Skinnable root pages I'm not sure if the new theme engine will support this, but I sure hope so. Currently I have two sites running on top...
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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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Because I sometimes want to paste source code into my posts, I want my skins to be a little wide. Source code is often much wider than normal text. I really like the new Community Server 2.0 paperclip skin, but it wasn't wide enough. So I changed it a bit. These are the steps I took: First, choose the...