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CodeBetter.Com Community Server 2007 Upgrade!

If you're a regular visitor. You may have noticed that today CodeBetter.Com has a new site skin. Hopefully this skin is better to look at, and loads faster than our old ugly digs.

I'm happy to report that we're up and running on Telligent's Community Server 2007, which was released earlier this week. If you're a CS user, you've got to check out this version. The codebase has come leaps and bounds since the last release, with all sorts of goodness in the skinning and template departments. It was such a pleasure to code this latest version of CodeBetter with the new bits. All the guys over there deserve a big pat on the back.

One of the controls that I could not go live with with this latest version was Dave Burke's outstandingly fabulous CS CAPTCHA control for comment spam filtering. His version was for CS 2.1, so I had some coding to do to get this working. I'm happy to report that I've built a version that can be deployed with CS 2007, and the first chance I get I'll release the source and blog about it here. Dave's asked me to release it, so I guess CodeBetter will be the new home for this control.

(p.s. I know we have 45 validation errors, and I'm working on it!)

Published Apr 20 2007, 05:05 PM by Brendan Tompkins

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Dave Burke said:

I couldn't be more proud than passing the Captcha Mantle to such a stud! I'll be looking forward to telling everyone about Brendan Tompkins CS2007 Captcha when I see it in your CodeBetter.com Downloads library. Good job, Brendan, and thanks!!!

# April 20, 2007 9:44 PM

Sam Gentile said:

It's absolutely beautiful! It looks, and is so much better! Thanks Brendan, and all the Community Server folks!

# April 21, 2007 4:16 PM

Scott said:

The skin looks great. Is there any way to create a personalized RSS feed from the main feed here but exclude certain blogs?

# April 22, 2007 3:07 AM

Scott said:

Never mind. I created my first Yahoo pipes

# April 22, 2007 3:17 AM

Brendan Tompkins said:

Thanks guys! It was a true labor of love getting this skin just the way I wanted.. Thank god for Firebug!

I'm really excited about this new version of CS... I've only scratched the surface of what you can do, but it's a great release.

# April 22, 2007 10:58 AM

sergiopereira said:

I miss the number of comments right next to each post title in the blog index pages. As for the color scheme, well, each person has their own taste, I guess. I liked the previous one better. Which is not to say it was magnificent or that the new one is ugly either. A little more contrast could make it more readable.

# April 22, 2007 2:34 PM

Brendan Tompkins said:

Sergio,

About the # of comments, I'm going to be adding that back in. It's not out of the box with the new version, so there's a laundry list of items I need to do to get all the bells and whistles back. Bear with us!

# April 22, 2007 3:21 PM

Fernando Cardoso said:

Would be better if the 'What's New ' section where grouped by articles, as before.

# April 24, 2007 12:25 PM

Brendan Tompkins said:

Fernando,

It's on the way. With CS 2007, it's a configuration that you have to make with your home.aspx code, and I want to make sure I test and get it styled correctly before release. Look for that later on this afternoon.

# April 24, 2007 1:04 PM

Keith Rull said:

The site looks awesome! Great job Brendan!

hmmm... would you be releasing your new CS 2007 controls?

# April 25, 2007 12:39 PM

Brendan Tompkins said:

Hi Keith! I will be releasing the CAPTCHA control hopefully this week asap. All of the other controls I had created aren't needed anymore! You can do all of the configuration directly with the out of the box CS 2007 components!

# April 25, 2007 1:23 PM

Keith Rull said:

I havent tried fully exploring CS 2007 yet. any tips on how you did the homepage controls in 2007?

# April 26, 2007 1:19 AM

Fernando Cardoso said:

Great work!

# April 27, 2007 2:55 PM

Jeremy said:

The new skin\site totally breaks in IE6. I have no main navigation and the content is all over the place.

# April 30, 2007 11:15 PM

Brendan Tompkins said:

Jeremy, are you sure? I've tested with IE6.. Perhaps you have a style sheet cached? Hold down CTRL and refresh.

# May 1, 2007 8:48 AM

Neal Blomfield said:

Love the site, must have my daily fix of codebetter or i start to get cranky, unfortunately my rss reader is choking on the cookie header. I am using Jetbrains Omea Reader 2.2 (build 1098.1) and looking at the rss feeds that are breaking, the common culprit seems to be community server. Not sure exactly what is causing the cookie issue but thought you should be made aware of the issue.

# May 1, 2007 4:34 PM

Brendan Tompkins said:

Neal,

I'll let the Telligent guys know about this. This is the first I've heard of it. Thanks for the kind words too!

# May 1, 2007 4:41 PM

Neal Blomfield said:

Partially fixed the issue by opening firefox and ie and deleting all cookies stored by these browsers. Still getting the issue with Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo's blog though =(

# May 1, 2007 4:59 PM

Matt Hornsby said:

Hi Brendan,

Can you share which controls you used to create the "Most Viewed"/"Most Commented" panels? Or, better yet, the code snippets?

I was using your excellent aggregate controls for CS 2.1, but I'm trying to upgrade to 2007 and having a hard time finding which out-of-the-box controls to use.

Thanks!

Matt Hornsby

# May 7, 2007 12:44 PM

Ted Jardine said:

Ditto for me on Jetbrains Omea Reader. Every Community Server blog is choking on the following error:

"An error occurred when parsing the Cookie header for Uri:..."

# May 26, 2007 3:17 AM

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Brendan has been programming with .NET since the first public beta and is owner and operator of Port Technology Services, a consultancy company providing .NET application development services to the Maritime industry. In July, 2007, he was awarded the Microsoft MVP award for ASP.NET. He's also a proud co-founder of failed .COM startup Intrinsigo, and has had a hand in the failure of numerous other businesses. He currently runs CodeBetter.Com and Devlicio.us, and lives in Norfolk, Virgina with his wife Tiara and son Ian.

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