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...

The final new widget for my home page to document is the “Latest Shared Feed Items” widget. This one displays the last 3 items that I’ve shared from Google Reader. I’m no longer displaying this widget but it was a custom designed plug-in (for the most part) so I wanted to share...

This is my next to last blog post about the new widgets on my home page. The “Lastest Music” widget pulls data from my Last.fm account. Currently I’m displaying the 12 artists/albums that I’ve listened to the most on Last.fm over the last week. It shows the cover art for each...

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 ...

The post iPhone look-alike on your kitchen wall on Hackaday inspired me to create a slide-out Social Locator for my site. If the iPhone interface is intuitive and recognizable enough to be used for a kitchen computer then it is probably a good model for anything. The “social widgets” on my...

Another new addition to the home page of my blog is the “Latest Videos” widget. It pulls in the 6 most recent videos that I have tagged as favorites on YouTube. It also has the option to pull in only videos that I have uploaded, but since I rarely upload videos I decided to spotlight any videos that...

One of the new additions to the home page of my blog is the “My Latest Photos” widget. It pulls in the 12 most recent pictures that I’ve uploaded to Flickr. It also gives a nice large preview of the image when you mouseover a thumbnail. Like the Twitter widget that I blogged about yesterday...

While redesigning my blog I chose to add more of a lifestream effect to the home page of the site. I also made a conscious effort use as much AJAX with jQuery as I could and was appropriate, both to improve perceived performance and just for fun. There are tons of great jQuery examples and plenty of...

I finally took the plunge and moved my blog ( http://danhounshell.com ) to Graffiti. No need to update links to RSS feeds, all that should be handled seamlessly by Feedburner. This blog was born in 2004 on Scott Watermasysk’s .Text platform. In 2006 I migrated from .Text to Community Server. This...

A list of movies walks into a bar… forget it, that’s not going to work. There once was a list of movies named Gurty Blanchez… hmm, that’s not going to work either. This is another one of those “posting it more for me than you” posts. Whoever is responsible for assigning the genres for movies - the production...

Today ScottW announced the release of the Customization Guide for the Telligent Evolution Platform . There are a lot of ways you can customize the look and feel of your Telligent Community and Telligent Enterprise site. While there is a lot of content on this site, we thought it would be helpful to put...

I finished reading Beginning ASP.NET MVC 1.0 this past weekend. Keyvan Nayyeri and Simone Chiaretta did a great job with this book. It should be simple enough that a pure beginner will be able to get up and running yet it contains enough depth that anyone but an ASP.NET MVC expert will learn at least...

Any of you dear readers who are subscribed to my blog via RSS may have noticed several posts coming through the RSS feed recently that are not on this site ( http://danhounshell.com ). That’s because I’ve combind this feed with a blog I created, CheeseSalt , on Posterous , that I use as a sort of “mini...

I’ve done two Windows 7 installations on my netbook (an eeePC 900) – Windows 7 Beta and Windows 7 RC. Both times involved creating a bootable USB drive with the Windows 7 files to use as the installer. My little netbook does not have a DVD drive and I don’t own an external DVD drive so a bootable USB...

There are much longer more detailed ways involving editing the registry, running "devenv ..." command-line stuff, etc. This is by far the fastest and easiest way: 0.a. Make sure you have the ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Framework installed. I'm a dummy and still had the Beta installed and was surprised when the project...

I joined Telligent nearly two years ago. Over that time we've grown nearly threefold and we're still growing and going strong. Scott W , Rob Howard , Dave Donaldson , the Pentonizer and others have already said it but it bears repeating... We need more great developers! We want to do some really great...

The last couple of weeks have been very busy and very different for me. Two weeks ago today I relinquished my hold on the ASP.NET Sites' Team, where for nearly the last two years I have been working on www.asp.net , forums.asp.net , weblogs.asp.net and wiki.asp.net . I transitioned to the Telligent Product...

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...

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...

We are looking for Software Developers to join the Managed Experience Team. Managed Experience Team = you get to work with all the coolest stuff one some of our best know community sites. Currently the sites we manage are Silverlight.NET, IIS.NET, ASP.NET and WindowsClient.NET. We will be adding more...

Telligent is once again looking for more quality people to join our ranks. We're looking for 6-10 good ASP.NET developers with solid SQL Servers skills as well as some other positions in Redmond or Dallas. You can find more details on the job postings and how to apply on Rob Howard's blog . If you are...

I almost forgot until I read Kevin's post that today is Telligent's 3rd anniversary. I remember the day I first read about the forming of Telligent and about Community Server . That was a special day for me because on that day, 3 years ago, I knew I wanted to be a Telligenti . Since that time I have...

It's been a few days since I made a post. Really busy around here and rather than post half a dozen little posts, I'll just group everything in one big one. C & J - Thoughts and Prayers First, and most importantly, I just found out that the wife of a dear friend was involved in a serious accident...

Scott Water posted yesterday that we are looking for someone to join our product team . The product team is in charge of products, duh, including Community Server and others (that I can't talk about here, shhhhh) along with coming up with great new ideas and making them happen - like BlogMailr . Additionally...

Calling all cars - calling all cars! Be on the lookout for a suspicious perp carring an XBOX 360 under one arm and a Nintendo Gamecube under the other. Someone swiped our XBOX 360! What's this world coming to?...

[See: Rob Howard's Seven days from now ] From zero to blogmailr in less than a week !?!? You've got to be kidding me. These guys are good. No, no, ... these guys rock!...

For those of you not into Community Server (shame !!!) and don't follow Jose Lema (but do follow me?) I have a couple of things to say to you: 1. what the heck is wrong with you !?!?! 2. Hi, Mom. 3. Jose is putting together a great series on building a mod (or maybe a mod engine) for Community Server...

Today is day 2 as part of the CS Team at Telligent Systems. That's the biggest news of course, but along with a short bio I sent out to the rest of the team yesterday I let some other tidbits go that I had been holding pretty close to the vest. More information (and pictures in some cases) to follow...