I was having issues with the built-in search in CS2007. Basically it was loading a blank page (no HTML at all) instead of the search results page. I'm sure I could find some info about the issue in the forums, but decided I would take a few minutes to try to implement Google's Custom Search instead. I spent more time futzing with the CS files than necessary to figure it out, but in the end the changes were pretty simple.
Step 1: First, sign up on Google to have a custom s...
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As you may or may not know, I use Telligent's Community Server as a blog engine here, as well as for photos and forums elsewhere. Well, they are having a Theme Extravaganza -- a contest for making custom themes. Prizes include MacBooks, XBox 360s and Amazon gift cards. Dan Bartels, a Milwaukee area local, works for Telligent, and he contacted me the other day with this offer: While I cannot enter the "public contest" I'd be willing to give some help to some folks to get th...
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If you subscribe to my feed in RSS, you may be interested to know that the address has change to http://feeds.feedburner.com/tapmymind. From what I can tell, if your RSS reader supports redirects (which I imagine most do these days), you shouldn't have to change anything. If not, however, you will need to switch to the new address.
I decided to try FeedBurner because they offer various statistics that might not otherwise be available. Plus, all the cool kids are doing it. ...
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So I just upgraded to Community Server 2007 today, and I've been using Windows Live Writer for my last couple posts. This is my first test of the two in combination. One thing to note, in WLW I tried to update the style of my blog, but it failed for some reason. I may look into it later, but in all reality it's not that important for me to see my posts in the same exact layout as they will appear after publishing. Also, I still want to update the skin from the default on...
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OK, so I've tweaked the blog skin a little (added a couple things to the side bar), and I'm getting used to it. I also downloaded this from the CS site. It lets me type code into my posts and it highlights it for me. For example:
[code language="VB.NET"]' VBDim myString as String = "Hello world"[/code]
[code language="C#"]// C#string myString = "Hello world";[/code]
[code language="T-SQL"]-- SQLselect 'Hello world'[/code]
[code language="ASP/ASP.NET"]<%' ASP.NET %><...
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OK, so that's a really lame name for a program, but I named it so I wouldn't forget what it was. I could have called it PhireFaacs, but really, do you think I would know what that was in two weeks? Forget for a moment how much ridicule I would receive from my peers for choosing such a stupid name -- that's an even dumber name than "Newsletter Sender".
Anyway, I wrote a simple little WinForms program last night (screenshots below) to help me send out the newsletter for the WI .NET Us...
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So the Google AdSense thing wasn't working for me, and I'm not referring to the fact that I only made 60 cents. OK, so maybe it has a little to do with that, but the real reason is that the ads were totally out of context. 99% of the ads that were displayed were about "blog". The other 1% was about tsunami relief.
Both, I'm sure, are fine topics, but are not relevant to my content like they "were supposed to be". I e-mailed Google about this a few times to find out what ...
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Well, after being down for about a week, comments are now re-enabled on my blog.
I posted to the CS Forums about this issue to try to get some help, but no one ever responded. So I decided to ask someone I know that works for Telligent -- Dan Bartels. I sent Dan a short e-mail, pointing to my forum question, and he responded right away (within ~30 minutes).
He made a simple suggestion to temporarily switch to the default blog skin and see if comments would work. The comm...
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