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…
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…
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 200…
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…
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…
I get asked this question a lot from friends and family, I’m sure we all do. It’s easy to explain to my geeky friends, not so easy to explain to my friends and family who aren’t so geeky. It usually goes something like this Me: “I work for Telligent…
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…
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…
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…
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…
