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October 2007 - Posts

  • Live Blogging the CSDC - Part 3

    This is the third part in my series of live blogging the Community Server Developer Conference. This post will cover the sessions and events on Sunday, Oct 21, 2007.

     

    9:00 AM - The second day of the CSDC kicks off with Ado playing a video clip of Nicole Keith doing her best Lara Croft impersonation while playing a video game at Dave & Busters last night.

    9:04 AM - Nicole begins her presentation on the Telligent Partner program. She describes all of the benefits that partners receives and how to become a partner. She mentions that she would really like to get case studies from Telligent Partners about using Community Server and other Telligent products. Nicole also mentioned that partners can call her anytime to talk about their products and services so she is familiar with them and can recommend them to other Telligent customers.

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  • Live Blogging the CSDC - Part 2

    Note: This post continues the original Live Blogging the CSDC post which covered the morning sessions and lunch.  Afternoon sessions will be blogged in this new post.

    12:35 PM - Wyatt Preul is now on stage presenting more info about customizing Community Server 2007.

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  • Live Blogging the CSDC

    I will be "live blogging" the 2007 Community Server Developers Conference today similar to how Engadget live blogs Apple Keynotes and such.

    This post will get continually updated throughout this morning with the latest news, announcements, witty observations, and hopefully a few pictures. After the lunch I will probably start a new post to live blog the afternoon sessions, and then new ones for tomorrow as well.

    Enjoy!

  • Another Upcoming Addition to the Harder Family

    UltrasoundA new baby Harder is currently under construction and is due in April of 2008. We have done one ultrasound so far and got to take home this picture, but it's too early to determine the sex. I'll post an update once we find that out in a few weeks.

    I'm getting a slight sense of déjà vu writing this, as it was right about this time two years ago when I published a very similar post announcing Jillian. I guess you could say I'm just trying to keep up with Tom and Jose. =)

    Posted Oct 16 2007, 01:22 AM by Kevin Harder
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  • The Pumpkins Are Invading Telligent

    Telligent keeps growing and it seems like every week for the past few months there has been at least one new face in the offices. This week there were several new faces, although of the orange persuasion: Pumpkins!

    For those who may not know, I love pumpkins. They're the perfect Fall fruit. Pumpkin coffee, pie, ice cream, carvings, etc - you can't go wrong with Pumpkin. So when Laura Gore put out a call for some Telligenti pumpkin creations I was only too happy to participate.

    Monday my girls went to the Flower Mound Pumpkin Patch and brought home some big and beautiful pumpkins. That night after a couple hours of hacking with various kitchen knifes my cannibal pumpkin was complete. There were four other very nicely carved pumpkins created by other Telligenti as well. Low res pictures taken with my PDA are below.

    Someone created ballots for voting and by some miracle my cannibal pumpkin barely won. I have no idea why - all of the others were much more intricately carved than my uneven creation. I personally loved Dana George's pirate ship design. David Penton did a great job with his Harry Potter motif. And Laura had two creative carvings using foam pumpkins so they will still be around next year: "witches brew" and "pyro".

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  • Gulf Coasting theme updated for CS 2007.1

    The best looking Community Server theme (I may be slightly biased) just got better! Go download the new version and try it out.

    I've made many small improvements and added additional configuration options over the past two months. Here are the ones that I can remember:

    • Updated to include all of the theme-related fixes/changes in the Community Server 2007.1 release (the original Gulf Coasting was designed for CS 2007 SP2).
    • Now has a "wide content" mode that hides the wide right sidebar for pages that need a little more elbow room. Many of the post/thread level forum pages use this new mode, as well as some of the general pages such as logout, forgot-password, view content article, etc.
    • Sidebar colors and font styles are now completely configurable via the Theme Configuration Control Panel screen. These were hard coded in the original Gulf Coasting release due to lack of time.
    • Many other types of content are also now configurable in Theme Configuration, including the navigation menu, post info boxes, blog date boxes, blog comments, and site headers.
    • You can enable/disable each of the three main controls on the home page from the Theme Config screen: Recent Content list, Activity List, and Users Online control.
    • Blog and File post view counts should now get updated correctly.
    • Fixed indentation bug in how UL and OL lists were displayed inside of posts.
    • Improved caching logic of the activity list control on the home page.
    • Skinned the previously un-skinned feed roller page (this is not used by 99% of people, it's only for compatibility with people who are still using the CS 2.0 feed reader that was replaced with Blog Mirroring in CS 2.1).
    • Added some additional comment subscription links to the blog post comment list (email subscription button for logged in non-owner users, and extra link to comment RSS feed after you post a comment).

    If you using the original version of Gulf Coasting and are updating, go to the Theme Configuration screen after updating the files and click on Save to make sure the defaults for all of the new configuration options are saved. You may also need to do a "hard refresh" (Ctrl + F5) in your browser to force it to refresh the style sheets.

    KevinHarder.com (and my harderfamily.org site) are running the latest version of Community Server and the Gulf Coasting theme if you want to get a preview.

    Please leave a comment on this post if you have any feedback or notice anything strange. Thanks!

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