Wyatt Lyon Preul

Overview When you are upgrading a site and have made changes to the siteurls.config or a similar configuration file, you will often need to merge your changes with the updated copy. Since 2007 this is no longer necessary when you use an override file to make your changes. You can create a SiteUrls_override...

Overview The siteurls.config has not changed drastically throughout the past couple of years. Regardless, it still remains a somewhat daunting file to understand. The step in this understanding it to realize that siteurls.config contains the data used for URL rewriting. The next step is to break down...

Overview In Community Server 2008 the spam rules were updated to support dynamic configuration options. This is important because now dynamic configuration code is consistent across new features. For example, the same way that you code for dynamic options in a content fragment (widget) is the same as...

Tonight I updated the theme at geekcowboy.com to be sitewide. Previously, I was using my theme named Sue for the blog, but now I have it as a sitewide theme as well. Whenever Community Server 2008 is released I will make sure to zip up my theme and release it as well. There will also be some revisions...

So I do not allow new people to join my site, therefore, the avatar that displays when someone makes a comment was using the anonymous user avatar. I decided to change this so that it displays a random avatar for each user who makes a post. I am currently not doing the best approach, because pretty much...

I just updated my site with a new blog theme that I am working on. Once I have the blog theme squared away I will begin creating a site theme with the same style as the blog. The name of theme is Sue, which is my tribute to Johnny Cash. You really cannot go wrong with referencing Johnny Cash as far as...

I have created a little blog theme over the weekend and made it available for free. It is available for download here: http://geekcowboy.com/files/folders/community_server/entry12250.aspx This theme should be extracted to your Themes/Blogs folder, then it will be selectable from the My Blogs -> Theme...

To celebrate being back on my blog I posted a collection of some nice little enhancements to Community Server 2007: Source: http://geekcowboy.com/files/folders/community_server/entry12037.aspx This package includes the following items. GoogleBase Module To install this module simply use the following...