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• Community Server 2008 - Overriding SiteUrls.config

  Overview When you are upgrading a site and have made changes to the siteurls.config or a similar configuration file, you will often need to merge your changes with the updated copy. Since 2007 this is no longer necessary when you use an override file... Posted May 05 2008, 01:57 PM by Wyatt Preul - The Geek Cowboy Filed under: Development, Community Server

• Community Server 2008 - Undersanding SiteUrls.config

  Overview The siteurls.config has not changed drastically throughout the past couple of years. Regardless, it still remains a somewhat daunting file to understand. The step in this understanding it to realize that siteurls.config contains the data used... Posted Apr 28 2008, 01:10 PM by Wyatt Preul - The Geek Cowboy Filed under: Development, Community Server

• Community Server 2008 - Migrating Spam Rules

  Overview In Community Server 2008 the spam rules were updated to support dynamic configuration options. This is important because now dynamic configuration code is consistent across new features. For example, the same way that you code for dynamic options... Posted Apr 28 2008, 10:28 AM by Wyatt Preul - The Geek Cowboy Filed under: Development, Community Server

• Theme Updated

  Tonight I updated the theme at geekcowboy.com to be sitewide. Previously, I was using my theme named Sue for the blog, but now I have it as a sitewide theme as well. Whenever Community Server 2008 is released I will make sure to zip up my theme and release... Posted Feb 24 2008, 07:32 PM by Wyatt Preul - The Geek Cowboy Filed under: Community Server, Design

• Random Avatar Generation for Blog Comments

  So I do not allow new people to join my site, therefore, the avatar that displays when someone makes a comment was using the anonymous user avatar. I decided to change this so that it displays a random avatar for each user who makes a post. I am currently... Posted Oct 09 2007, 11:14 PM by Wyatt Preul - The Geek Cowboy Filed under: Community Server, CSS

• New Prettier Blog Theme... Named Sue.

  I just updated my site with a new blog theme that I am working on. Once I have the blog theme squared away I will begin creating a site theme with the same style as the blog. The name of theme is Sue, which is my tribute to Johnny Cash. You really cannot... Posted Oct 07 2007, 11:43 PM by Wyatt Preul - The Geek Cowboy Filed under: Development, Community Server, CSS, Design

• Mr. Lema & Book Inspires Blogging and New Design

  After reading the many recent posts by Jose Lema I have been inspired to begin blogging again. It has been a few weeks since my last blog was created.; Aside from writing more posts, I am also working on a new blog theme for myself. Once it is complete... Posted Sep 30 2007, 09:20 PM by Wyatt Preul - The Geek Cowboy Filed under: Development, Community Server, CSS, Thoughts

• New Blog Theme Available for Community Server 2007

  I have created a little blog theme over the weekend and made it available for free. It is available for download here: http://geekcowboy.com/files/folders/community_server/entry12250.aspx This theme should be extracted to your Themes/Blogs folder, then... Posted May 20 2007, 10:10 PM by Wyatt Preul - The Geek Cowboy Filed under: Development, Community Server, CSS

• Community Server 2007 Modules, Tasks, and Pages Oh My!

  To celebrate being back on my blog I posted a collection of some nice little enhancements to Community Server 2007: Source: http://geekcowboy.com/files/folders/community_server/entry12037.aspx This package includes the following items. GoogleBase Module... Posted Apr 26 2007, 10:59 PM by Wyatt Preul - The Geek Cowboy Filed under: Community Server

• Community Server Custom File Type Icons

  Community Server offers a great way to easily extend and change the icon images that are associated with each file type in the file gallery. In addition, each of the icons comes in two versions, a small and regular sized icon. Look inside your /utility... Posted Mar 14 2007, 11:34 PM by Wyatt Preul - The Geek Cowboy Filed under: Development, Community Server

• Professional Community Server Just Got Better Looking :)

  As you can see the cover of Professional Community Server just got better looking. Now there are three other faces to add to the mix. The pictures from left to right are Me, Keyvan, Jose, and Jim. I think that with these other faces on the cover we will... Posted Mar 04 2007, 11:15 PM by Wyatt Preul - The Geek Cowboy Filed under: Community Server

• Community Server Google Base Module

  I created a Google.Base Community Server module last night and now I am experimenting with it. The expected outcome is that your site pages get ranked higher by google. At the very least it allows you to make your posts immediately searchable and entered... Posted Mar 01 2007, 01:04 AM by Wyatt Preul - The Geek Cowboy Filed under: Community Server

• Community Server - MP3 Player Module

  [mp3: src=http://download.publicradio.org/podcast/minnesota/podcasts/current_download/2007/01/20070201_apples_in_stereo_energy.mp3: display=Apples in Stereo - Energy] I thought it was about time an extremely simple mp3 player was integrated into Community... Posted Feb 03 2007, 01:43 AM by Wyatt Preul - The Geek Cowboy Filed under: Development, Community Server, Music