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22 February 2006
Test From Writely
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21 February 2006
Tip #4 - Community Calendar
On the top navigation there's now a new link to a basic Community Calendar . To post new events to the calendar either use the calendar icon from the web administration interface when creating a new post, or include the following simple text to your post (without the spaces): [ cal]mm-dd-yyyy[/ cal]... Read More...
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21 February 2006
Tip #3 - MetaWeblog
The MetaWeblog API endpoint is http://dotnet.org.za/blogs/metablog.ashx . You can use this to post to your blog from any of the popular desktop blogging applications that supports the MetaWeblog API. The blogid value is your blog name. ie. http://dotnet.org.za/armand -> blogid = armand. The same credentials... Read More...
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21 February 2006
Tip #2 - LightBox
To add a little flair to the images used on your blog, on-line at least, you can make use of Ken Robertson's LightBox module for Community Server. Example (Click on image) Image nabbed from Flickr ( Lightning Tag ) USING LIGHTBOXMODULE ---------------------- The LightboxModule class allows the use of... Read More...
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21 February 2006
Tip #1 - Wikipedia Links
To insert Wikipedia links into your post, use the Community Server TextPart format to specify the Wikipedia topic (Remove the spaces) ie. [ wikipedia:TOPIC ] where TOPIC is the text you want to both display as a link and link to within Wikipedia. Example: This is a sample of some [wikipedia:Wikipedia... Read More...
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21 February 2006
coComment Support
coComment have been getting quite a bit of press lately in the blogosphere. It's a service that allows you to track the comments you've made to other blogs in a central location. I very seldom check back or remember where I've commented so should this become more pervasive it definitely looks like a... Read More...
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20 February 2006
Community Server RTM
I've upgraded the site to the final version of Community Server 2.0 tonight. The upgrade went really smooth and apart from some legacy issues from the betas all functionality should now be functioning. Let me rephrase the really smooth statement above, the upgrade itself went really well but my iBurst... Read More...
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13 February 2006
Community Server 2.0 RC1
Community Server 2.0 RC 1 has been released for download. I downloaded the drop a little earlier and upgraded an installation on my local machine and it looks really good. (First thing I checked was the delete post bug and that was sorted out) (While testing the upgrade I was logged in to the local instance... Read More...
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06 February 2006
Forums & Reader
We've expanded the forums to include sections on WinFX, Mobility and a couple of others. You can view the new forums here . Please let us know which other forums we should add/leave out. Some other additional features that has been enabled is the Feed Reader for registered users. Subscribe to and read... Read More...
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