Back in April I did an interview with The Server Side where I made this statement in an interview: “… the level of growth and the adoption [of ASP.NET] and the smart client market, or the smart client adoption in the community its definitely very … Continue reading “Is “Smart Client” a “Dumb Idea”?”
Well, at least according to Slashdot. Why? Well, it runs on Windows, is built with .NET and (gasp!) uses software such as SQL Server! Using the slashdot mentality it means that it’s not open source because it’s not “pure”, i.e. doesn’t run on Linux, etc. … Continue reading “DotNetNuke is not open source”
Tomorrow night, October 25th, I’m presenting at the San Diego .NET User’s Group Topics: ASP.NET 2.0 Tips & Tricks – Slides/demos are the same as Heartland Developer’s Conference (here) If you live in San Diego, I hope to see you there!
Jason has been working on a super-secret project for Community Server 2.0: web based RSS reader. He checked it in for last week’s public build and a few of us have been playing with it on the CommunityServer.org site. Screen-shot (UI is still pretty rough) … Continue reading “Feed Reader”
A couple of month’s ago I did an interview with Sky Radio’s Forbes Business Channel about online communities. The interview will air publicly on American Airlines and NorthWest Airlines in November, but you can download the interview now too (WMA format). BTW, if you haven’t … Continue reading “Online Communities Interview”
You can download the slides and demos here: http://communityserver.org/files/42/robs_files/entry500505.aspx
(reposted from ComponentArt’s Site): Today ComponentArt is excited to announce a strategic partnership with Telligent Systems Inc., creators of the very popular Community Server product. A managed platform offering moderated discussion forums, blogging capabilities, photo galleries and more – Community Server is the engine that … Continue reading “Community Server and ComponentArt team-up to use ComponentArt’s Web.UI suite in Community Server”
A couple of people have asked to see a demo of our new Ink support. Scott recorded one. P.S., it also shows off our new control panel.
Today we rolled out ink support for Community Server! We’ve got some really cool ideas about how we’ll use ink in forums, blogs, and photo galleries. Other features that went live today: Forums personalization – You can now hide groups and forums you are not interested … Continue reading “Ink …yeah, we’ve got that”
After seeing screen captures and scratching my head thinking, “hmm… my copy of Windows XP doesn’t look like that” Kevin pointed me to the Royale Theme for Windows XP. I like it, but have to admit (it makes it look like a Mac). Speaking of Macs, … Continue reading “Random blog catch-up”
