When configuring our Selenium tests to run out build server, one issue I ran into is that there wasn’t a lot out there in terms of how to get this set up. A few people had posted about having done it, but not how they did it. Overall, it isn’t ...read more

Community Server 2008 introduced the concept of Social Networking to our platform. Users can register for your community, become friends with other members, and get status updates from their friends, but it's lonely when you start out with no friends ...read more

You all should know by now that yesterday was Festivus . One of my favorite festivus traditions is the "airing of grievances". In that spirit I present this post. I've got a lot of problems with you people... MSFT - I have a few beefs with ...read more

It is hard to imagine why a major hotel chain would impose these kinds of limitations on their customers. 1. Instead of encoding the content you want me to avoid using &, %, <, and >? 2. All you can offer me is 100 characters? Even twitter ...read more

Someone recently asked me how I created the Telligent Community 5.0 demo video that you can watch here .  The thing that made this the easiest was TechSmith’s Camtasia Studio product .  Using their fine software as a base I was able to use the ...read more

Apparently the iPhone club ran out of cool people to "tag" in their little discussion about what pages they browse to most frequently on their expensive phones. Well, since my phone has had an SDK for a lot longer than theirs I'm going to ...read more

I've published an alpha release of a Windows Live Writer plugin that makes it easy to pull multiple RSS or Atom feed items into a blog post. Let me know what you think. The download link is here: http://evolvingwe.com/files/FeedInserterAlpha ...read more

Just incase you been living under a technology rock for the last week or so, please go check out the Google Wave demo video before continuing reading this post. Based on the Wave video and this roadmap post by the Google App Engine (GAE) team (along with ...read more

I love to see competitors who can comfortably and politely write about each other. Ryan Stewart , who is an evangelist for Adobe wrote a very nice over on the differences between Silverlight Out of Browser and Adobe AIR . Ryan comes to the conclusion ...read more

No, not that switch yet, although seeing ScottW get a 5.1 on the Vista experience score on his Macbook Pro sure makes it tempting. I've finally given up on IE 7 as a default web browser in Vista. For some reason it crashes constantly on me. At ...read more

Installing Vista 64bit on my original MacBook Pro took quite a bit of work and a bit of hacking. Thankfully, on my new Unibody 13inch MacBook Pro’s it is drop dead simple. Here is what I did: 1. Setup a BootCamp partition and install Windows ...read more

What would my blog look like if content boxes were purple? You can answer that question by simply setting the color and hitting save... but then all of your site visitors will be subjected to your bright pink sidebar before you come to your senses. You ...read more

Lost in yesterday's announcement about Google App Engine's support for Java was a new feature, Cron . " schedule tasks like report generation or DB clean-up at an interval of your choosing. " Not a ton of details, but this enables ...read more

Hey there IndiansFanJoe3456! Wow, that's a mouthful. Chances are that you have one of these accounts on a site that doesn't let you be you because someone else is already you! One of these sites may even be a Community Server site. Well, there ...read more

I've been pinged by more than a few people about this today, but I can officially say that SP1 for Community Server 2008 is now available! On the download page you'll find updated install packages as well as an upgrade package for existing sites ...read more

.Net Services is the hidden jewel of in the Azure stack. It is often overlooked, neglected, and rarely talked about, but for anyone who needs to integrate existing or external applications with something hosted in Azure, I am sure you will become close ...read more

A very interesting announcement by the folks at MySpace : Today, we are open-sourcing Qizmt, an internally developed framework for distributed computation created by the Data Mining team here at MySpace. Qizmt can be used for many operations that ...read more

I am still not a huge fan of SimpleDB API (especially via Amazon’s C# wrapper), but with Microsoft’s decision to change course on SDS , if you need a cloud scale queryable schemaless entity store, it is likely your best option. Recently they announced ...read more

I'm sure a bunch of you just got done installing CS 2008 or upgrading to SP1 for CS 2008, but I want to give you the lowdown on what you can expect this fall with the release of CS 2008.1. Schedule The first thing you'll notice is that I said ...read more

I have tried a variety of tools for reading my Google Reader feeds on my iPhone. Google’s mobile browser – works well, but requires a constant connection and little third party tool integration Feeds – likely the most disappointing app I have ever purchased ...read more

The pace of change is really picking up in the cloud space. Today, Amazon announced a very significant update to their Simple Queue System . AWS is also introducing additional permission features that control access to Amazon SQS and to each of its ...read more

I originally saw this great link 11 Useful Free APIs for Developing Twitter Apps in a tweet by Jon Galloway . While there are a couple of them that are focused on just twitter, there are quite a few others that have usage far and beyond twitter. It ...read more

Last night I asked on Twitter if anyone had signed up for Pandora One and thought it was worth the $36/yr price. Omar Shahine quickly responded that he felt it was and also said, “I consider it a donation for such an an awesome service”.  He is absolutely ...read more

So you like polling people huh? But you want some more attention for polls so you can collect more user data? This tip will teach you how to publish a featured poll to the front page of the forums in CS 2008 using the forum post widget. 1. Create a new ...read more

Last week, at the In.Telligent conference I gave the keynote on our product roadmap. It’s rare that I have so many customers captive in one room so I used the opportunity to gather some feedback in real time. I distributed a list of features broken ...read more