Digging My Blog

Migrating a blog from one platform to another is like taking a trip to the hardware store. It’s easy enough if you go solo: just grab your keys, throw on a hat and you’re there and back in under an hour. But if you are bringing a lot of content with you it’s like taking the wife with...

Graffiti comes with a plethora of built-in widgets and there have been plenty built by the community. Up until now they had to be displayed in a sidebar. There was no way to display a widget in your content, your header, your footer, etc. without some modifications, custom Chalk extensions or using ...

In my last post, Customizing Graffiti: Chalk GetQuerystringValue , I promised that I was brewing up a really good Graffiti example/tip that would combine a lot of the customizations that I’ve written about recently. Are you ready for this? This one will knock your socks off and it alone is worth...

My last Customizing Graffiti post was a simple little thing. This one is just as simple - the GetQuerystringValue Chalk extension. I had a need for pulling a value from the querystring recently and using it my view markup. I was sure that something to do that must exist in Graffiti, but I looked and...

Continued Graffiti goodness. Here is another Graffiti customization - the GetAppSetting Chalk extension. I recently put this one together so I haven’t grown to love it as much as the RedirectIfSinglePost extension, but it is very handy to have around when you need it. What does it do? You use it to pull...

In my last post I promised a wealth of Graffiti posts would soon be flowing from my finger tips. Here is my first and probably my favorite Graffiti customization - the RedirectIfSinglePost Chalk extension. I have used this on every Graffiti site I've put together or toyed around with. What does it do...

It's a late Saturday night in early January and I'm drinking a Sierra Nevada Pale Ale, downloading the Windows 7 Beta, catching up on my RSS reader, doing a year-end inventory and analysis and thinking about my goals for the new year. The "new year's goals" thing may seem a bit late, but I've learned...

Last week I had an IM conversation with a friend who was curious about Graffiti . I saved the conversation because I thought both the discussion and the links might be useful for others interested in Graffiti, too. I did take some liberties with the following text: names were changed to protect the innocent...

I've been jammed up with a lot of work recently, but I still make some time to play with one of my new favorite toys, Graffiti . After my ecommerce site built on Graffiti I tend to look for new, interesting and different things that I can do with Graffiti both for the personal fun and challenge and to...

In case you haven't heard Graffiti 1.0 was released Monday. You can find more information on Rob Howard's blog , in the press release and at the Graffiti site . I've written about Graffiti a bit here and I think it is an awesome platform. Without making any code changes at all I've been able to implement...

You may have read quite a few praises about Telligent's soon-to-be-new product, Graffiti , recently - especially from me and fellow Telligenti . If you've been following along you'll agree that a lot of it sounds something like this: "I converted my blog to Graffiti", "This blog is now running on Graffiti...

If you're a regular follower or subscriber of this blog you've probably been finding yourself thinking lately, "Boy that Dan's posting frequency has fallen way off." Then again maybe you haven't. But if you had thought that you'd be partly right and partly wrong. My posting frequency to this blog has...