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Using Blog Snippets in your Community Server Blog
Since I blog a lot, and mainly focus on some specific technologies, I found myself always repeat the same links over and over in my posts. For example: Visual Studio "Orcas" , currently in Beta1 contains some integration between Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) and also some nice features of ADO.Net Entity Framework . I used a few links in the above sentence that I used in almost every other posts as well. I always create the same links over and over again...
Blog statistics: what do they really mean?
Looking at the blogs statistics at the Control Panel, you can see both " Views " column and " AggViews " column. Have you ever wondered what does each of them mean actually? Well, " Views " is the number of times someone viewed a post on the web via a browser, and " AggViews " is the number of times someone viewed the post via the RSS and Atom feeds... Go see your statistics... Enjoy!
How To: Change PaperClip Theme Image and Width
How To: Change PaperClip Theme Image and Width After upgrading to Community Server 2.1 , I liked the PaperClip family of themes the most. The problem with it is that the blog becomes too narrow for adding code snippets in my blog posts. So, I decided to customize the theme a little bit, and while on it, replace the standard title image. So here how it's done: · Go to your blog's dashboard, and from the side menu select Global Settings -> Change how my blog looks . · Pick one of the PaperClip themes...
Community Server 3.0, Codename "Calypso"
After shipping version 2.1 of Community Server this August, the team has already started working on version 3.0, code name "Calypso". Main features in the 3.0 release are: A new Theme Engine. Better membership management. Centralized File Storage System and Mail Gateway. Hope I get the change to see some early bits soon... Read more about the new release here ...
Posting to Community Server from C# using the MetaWeblog API
What is the MetaWeblog API? The MetaWeblog API (MWA) is a programming interface that allows external programs to get and set the text and attributes of weblog posts. It builds on the popular XML-RPC communication protocol, with implementations available in many popular programming environments. Read more here … Since this API is exposed from the Weblogs providers, programmer have to use a client-side programming model to communicate with it according to the XML-RPC protocol. Josh Gough has created...