Before I left for TechEd Barcelona I picked up a new MacBook Pro. I was headed to Europe for 3 weeks, the first part of which was business and the second part vacation. I presented and demoed on Windows XP using VMWare’s Fusion (this works … Continue reading “Duality, life as a Mac and Windows user”

Unless we run into some major last minute bug(s), beta 1 of Graffiti CMS will be available this week! We’ve had a large response to our announcement of Graffiti and a lot of people have also signed up for the beta. If you are interested … Continue reading “Graffiti CMS Beta 1 – should be this week”

We’ve been working like crazy to get Graffiti out the door. We’re really, really close but it’s always that last 2% that is the hardest. We’ve also been doing some work on the business side and we’re pleased to announce that Graffiti CMS will be … Continue reading “Graffiti to be available with Windows Home Server”

I picked up a 15" MacBook Pro on Sunday after struggling with this decision for about 8 weeks now. I figured I’d just have to dive right in. First impression: wow. Just opening the box was a great experience. There was: 1 laptop, 1 DVI … Continue reading “MacBook Pro – first impressions”

Google already sells their "Yellow Box" search appliance which is essentially Google Search packaged up into a hardware solution that you simply drop onto your network. The software crawls your intranet and indexes your content using Google’s search, indexing, and ranking algorithms. Very cool. When … Continue reading “Google office in a box”

I haven’t upgraded to Vista yet. It’s not that I’m not eager to use Vista, I’m just not eager to have to go through the head-ache of updating my laptop. I will admit that I’ve been a bit slower since quite a few of my … Continue reading “Vista, Leopard, or both?”

I’m headed over to Barcelona, Spain next week. What’s not fun is how I get there: Dallas,TX -> Las Vegas,NV -> San Francisco,CA -> Munich, Germany -> Barcelona Yes, I’m going to go west before I go east. Please don’t ask why. It’s a long … Continue reading “Want to meet-up in Barcelona?”

Last weekend at the Community Server Developer Conference we announced 2 new products that Telligent is building: Graffiti CMS – a really simple, lightweight content management system that can also be used for single user blogging. Reporting Server – a really simple reporting framework and … Continue reading “Telligent Reporting Server”

A common question we get from customers that use Community Server is: When I make a request to my Community Server site the “www” is stripped off the domain… While it’s easy to change this behavior in Community Server, it’s actually done on purpose to … Continue reading “www and search engine optimization”

ASP.NET has a wonderful carry over from Classic ASP that many developer still use: Response.Redirect(string url); When ASP.NET encounters a Redirect() request it will internally throw a thread abort exception and immediately send headers back to the client (typically a browser) to go to another … Continue reading “Understanding ASP.NET Response.Redirect”