I always forget to publish this info. Up coming speaking events: VS Live Toronto April 13- 16 Caching in ASP.NET 2.0 URL ReWriting: Best Practices and Practical Examples Effective State Management VS Live Las Vegas May 8-11 URL ReWriting: Best Practices and Practical Examples Effective State Management Lessons Learned From Community Server...

One of things that keeps you motivated on a project like CommunityServer is seeing others making create customizations. Steve Smith just let me know he has offically launched WindowsAdvice which is powered by CS. Have questions about Microsoft Windows?  Can't get something to work in Windows XP?  Want to know the latest security...

Here is a pretty interesting new music site: Crossfader. Crossfader is an online community for the global electronic artist.  We are building this tool to help you connect with people who share your love for creation, great music, technology and modern culture. To be honest, I know very little about this kind of music. My real interest...

Community Server has been nominated for an ASP.NET Pro Reader's Choice Award. Anyone can vote and we would love to see Community Server win! You can enter your vote here: http://www.aspnetpro.com/ReadersChoice/. Community Server is listed on the third page under 'Forums'. Since it has been the year (or two) of the blog, I would have...

I am going to be "manning" one of the rooms at the N3UG .NET Cabana Night on at 6:00 PM on March 8, 2005. Cabana Night is a number of discussion rooms, each with a different .NET topic area, discussion leader, and several experts with a whiteboard. Totally free form sessions. Discussion is open to anything and everything related to the specific...

As I have mentioned before, Telligent Systems is still growing pretty quickly. This week we made another awesome addition, Alex Lowe! (formerly). One of Alex's duties is managing the www.ASP.NET site, and he is looking for some early feedback. IMO, the ASP.Net site is hands down Microsoft's #1 community site. Drop Alex a line and let him know...

Lot's of Community Server news today! Ken just announced we have started publicly beta testing one of the cooler new CS Add-On's: NNTP. Now, the lines of what a message board is has been blurred by making the same forums, messages, users, and roles, accessible either by the web or by your desktop NNTP server. With the NNTP server addon, bring...

One of the "Lessons Learned" in my VSLive talk this Wednesday is going to focus on XSS. In many applications, the simple answer is to encode the content before rendering (or saving it). However, for application like CS this is not possible. Over the years we have tried many ways to prevent users from posting malicious markup. Mostly these...

We announced a new wiki last night for CommunityServer at http://docs.communityserver.org. Using a wiki for documentation with .Text was not a great experience. The community did a great job helping to adding content, but spammers (and their ilk) always reeked havoc on it. So in an effort to keep the content clean and relevant we tied the...

RC2 of CommunityServer was released late last night. Go and get it!

One of the items I really wanted to make sure was easier in Community Server was the initial setup. There were often questions about the missing .Text installer. Besides lack of time, one of my strongest reasons for not including an installer was the fact most users did not have access to run an installer on the server. So while, it might have...

So a common question the last couple of days, "Is .Text Dead" ? Absolutely not. No way. Nie..Nao. Het. Just to be clear: Community Server is the evolution of .Text (I consider CS 1.0 to be the missing .Text 1.0) There will be a free upgrade tool to upgrade a .Text install to CS 1.0 You 100% can run Community Server Blogs, without galleries...

I had a blast at Code Camp II, so I decided to make another trip to Code Camp III in Boston (or near Boston :). Register Here. I am going to do two sessions: Effective State Managment:Managing state is one of the biggest keys to a successful web application. While caching in ASP.NET gets the greatest amount of press, ASP.Net 1.x provides...

For those of you who can compile .Text, I recommend a quite edit to help* reduce the effectiveness of comment spam. The class to change is Dottext.Framework.Util.Globals. Method: EnableUrls (found in Dottext.Framework\Util\Globals.cs) In this method, .Text will look for links posted in a comment (prior to this call the entire comment is...

Looks like NJ is getting another great .NET community memeber. Devin Rader has join Infragistics and will be relocating to NJ.