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SEO and Community Server

I am not an SEO expert but have been working with one to optimize Community Server urls and pages for a client's install. I recently read this post on CS forums and it deals directly with many of the same issues surfaced by the expert we have been...

Posted Nov 25 2008, 09:25 AM by Pensieve

Filed under: Community Server, SEO

CS Blog post dates and links

I have been working on another Community Server installation for a client concerned with SEO (more on lessons here later). Duplicate urls are one of the major issues we have tried to elimate in his site. CS publishes lots of urls for the same content...

Posted Oct 28 2008, 04:04 PM by Pensieve

Filed under: Community Server, SEO, BlogUrls, SEM

Section 8.5.2 of CSS 2.1 and the border-color property

I realize this is minutea, but I wanted to get this down for later recall. First of all, when working with Firefox, I usually find that it is reliably strict, and so developing for FF will allow you to get a result that transfers to other browsers. Of...

Posted Aug 15 2008, 11:10 AM by Pensieve

Asp.Net AJAX Client Side Templated Data Bound Control

I recently read these two articles by Dino Esposito about ajax templates ( part1 , part2 ) and was intrigued by the possibilities. I spend a lot of time working on customizing Community Server which is one page after another of templated data-bound lists...

Posted Aug 11 2008, 01:19 PM by Pensieve

Community Server and Extended Profile Properties

Anyone who has done much customization for Community Server will eventually run into the need to add more profile properties for users. These properties are really easy to add. The problem is that you cannot easily search on these fields because they...

Posted Oct 03 2007, 01:07 PM by Pensieve

Earned Value Early Results

We have our first reporting period under our belts, and I am very excited about the EV results. In this fictionalized representation of our first project, we see the period % complete reporting by the team leader: This evaluation of our status leads to...

Posted Sep 24 2007, 11:05 AM by Pensieve

Earned Value Management

One session of a conference I attended way back in March was a discussion about managing projects presented by Juval Löwy . One of Juval's excellent claims was that he had used earned value analysis to keep his management time to 15 minutes every...

Posted Sep 21 2007, 12:35 PM by Pensieve

Orcas Beta 1 and other new stuff

It seems to me that the development world is experiencing another period of rapid evolution again, much as it did in '99-'01 around web application servers, XML, and all the XML spinoff technologies. Interestingly, during the last evolution many...

Posted Sep 21 2007, 11:41 AM by Pensieve

Private Workspace Config Mgmt w/Team System

On a recent project our team has been using Microsoft's Team System from within Visual Studio. We are using the built-in capabilities for: Requirements Definition Task Assignments Source Control Build Server Bug Tracking Code Coverage Unit Testing...

Posted Jun 05 2007, 03:17 PM by Pensieve

Generic Mock Factory

I've been involved in VS integration work lately, and within the unit testing framework provided by the integration SDK is an excellent mock factory for any interface based type. If you are involved in unit testing where you need mocks, this is an...

Posted Jun 05 2007, 11:37 AM by Pensieve

Windows Communication Foundation - SOA

I have spent time this week learning about the WCF and it's place in jumpstarting SOA based application development while attending the SDWest Expo in Santa Clara. Juval Löwy provided most of the presentations on WCF; along with a few by his chief...

Posted Mar 31 2007, 07:32 PM by Pensieve

Helpful C# Class File Template Change

Something which has annoyed me several times in VS2005 is that new classes are internal by default. I almost never want an internal class, so I went looking for the option to change. I never did find it, but a colleague has just pointed out the solution...

Posted Feb 27 2007, 03:06 PM by Pensieve

Community Server Paged Permissions Grids

The default implementation of Community Server assumes you will have only a handful of roles. This caused me some problems when I added 700 new roles to configure specific admin/user permissions on 350 forums. All of the permissions grids in the control...

Posted Dec 15 2006, 04:12 PM by Pensieve

Exchange Distribution Lists and WebDAV

Download Sample Code I encountered an interesting side project recently where I wanted to retrieve information about distribution lists on a local Exchange Server from a web-based application. I didn't want to use CDO/MAPI directly for various reasons...

Posted Dec 12 2006, 05:24 PM by Pensieve

Enable Domain Account As App Pool Identity

While the answers are around already, the simplified listing of what to do when you create a user in your domain to run an IIS 6.0 application pool on Windows Server 2003 is: Add the user to the IIS_WPG on the web application server. Run aspnet_regiis...

Posted Nov 20 2006, 12:18 PM by Pensieve

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