As from today, no new posts will be written here at http://weblogs.asp.net/joeriksson . My blog has moved to: http://joeriksson.com Please change any bookmarks you might have, and also your RSS subscriptions.I will try to redirect current RSS links to the new ones with the help of the External Feed URL...

The best thing about being a Community Server Evangelist is making new friends in the CS developer community. I should write a series to showcase these smart and interesting characters (which is a darn good idea actually), but I thought I'd take a moment and conclude the Beach Week Chronicles with a...

After upgrading to Community Server 2.1 Beta 2 , I changed my blog skin to new built-in Community Server skin, Kid Congo, designed by newest Community Server MVP Jaxon Rice . It was (and is) his blog skin and he added this skin plus some other beautiful skins to Community Server 2.1. These new skins...

In today's screencast I want to show you another, in the line of, what I call "hidden" features of Community Server . Namely the import function in a photo gallery. IMO it's not located in a place where you might expect it to be. You will find it under the 'Advanced Photo Settings'...

Community Server 2.1 Beta 2 (2.1.60727.835) has been released and in less than two hours after announcement Nayyeri.NET was upgraded to it. Nothing went wrong with this upgrade and it didn't take more than 15 minutes to be done. I applied most of main changes to new version and it's now working.

You find inspiration in many different places. I've been thinking lately about the role my blog plays in being a Community Server Evangelist and end up finding enlightenment in a mashup between MAD Magazine and the novel das Boot . I'll begin with the insights gleamed from between the covers of MAD Magazine...

I wanted to focus on one of the primary benefits of Open Source as I see it: the talent an Open Source model draws to the application. But before I do, let me swap out a term here to avoid going down Definition Drive again. I’m going to use Rob Howard’s “Shared Source” description for Community Server...

I have more Beach Week Chronicles to get online, but I needed to take a sidebar and add a bit of info to yesterday's post on Community Server and Open Source . Phil Haack picked up the discussion with a very articulate argument on what constitutes Open Source from an application licensing perspective...

Yes, you can do that! Provided that you only want to change the color schema and one or 2 pictures referenced in the CSS files. I did a few skins last week, one of them cause I wanted it for a site of mine, the others just because I could, and wanted to test out if it really was as easy as I thought...

I don't understand how people don't get that Community Server is an Open Source application. Of course it's an Open Source application. Somehow, because there are commercial Add-Ons, paid support options and other professional services available from Telligent, Community Server is somehow tainted and...