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The best ASP.NET CMS yet, our own Graffiti, is in the running for the asp.netPRO annual Readers Choice award . If you've played with it, you'll know why we're excited. Our old Dozing Dogs CMS came in second in it's first year in this event
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A good few years ago I started another company to run some local city websites . At one point I had created a few thousand city sites and was making some decent coin from selling ads to local businesses. The idea didn't scale unfortunately - although
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At last we can talk about Telligent's new soon-to-be-released-but-noone's-promising-anything CMS!! Adonis just posted a sneak peek video ASP.NET 3.5 Web Hosting: 3 Months FREE + FREE Setup - CLICK HERE!
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I'd love to update some of my sites - they could sure use some updating . But I'm crap at web design. The whole "pretty" thing is sadly out of my reach. I want someone to design the layout, make it beautiful, cut it up and send me css+markup
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Schtum: adj, slang. Keep quiet, maintain confidentiality Working on a secret project at Telligent has made it tough to blog on technical subjects this year. I'm a big fan of open process and loved to talk openly about the development of Dozing Dogs
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I hit a bizarre error today - one of those where ASP.NET hinders, not helps. But surprisingly it's quite common and well documented. It starts with browsing your site and hitting a "Service Unavailable". This is quite a scary message since
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From my IM this morning: Date Time From To Message 10/17/2006 11:14:24 AM /* Neils */ » James Shaw dude what is hspace="10" 10/17/2006 11:14:27 AM /* Neils */ » James Shaw lol 10/17/2006 11:14:39 AM /* Neils */ » James Shaw
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By now most people will know about ResolveURL and use it whenever they need to reference a page that may be in a different folder. I still regularly see user conrols that reference images using plain paths though, and they only work when you use them
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Community Server 2.1 RC1 is up there for download. Obviously it's the best release yet and it's I'm now officially an enthusiast. Yeah, I've worked at Telligent for almost a year now but only recently full-time on the CS team. It's
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Well, I got my CS site up and working - on my local machine. :D And then, my FTP program decided to have a very immature and badly-timed hissy fit. It took an hour to upload the files, often quoting 4bytes/sec upload speed. Yes BYTES. It started moaning
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..and within 15 minutes (how is that possible?) the ringtone spam comments poured into my blog. So, this is it. This is the weekend that CYA moves to CS. It's not hard, thousands of people do this each day but the longer I leave it the bigger hurdle it
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I'd like a streamlined blogging experience, where I can hit a hot key, type and a new quick-and-dirty blog entry gets posted. Somewhere where I can blog the stream 1 of thoughts that go through my head and never get captured. Something nice like OneNote
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OurLittleNet's domains are expiring, and today I notice that www.OurRoswell.net is starting to fail when requested. Only the alternative RoswellGA.ourlittle.net domains will continue to work. It's the end of an era. The Our Roswell website went live (on
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We've all read summaries of 2005 and what's going to happen in 2006. It's a common theme amongst bloggers it seems. I'm not going to take my turn though. This post is about why an earlier venture of mine (OurLittleNet ) failed, prompted by an article
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I'm proud to say that while I was at the ASP Insiders Summit in Redmond I found a couple of issues in ASP.NET 2.0! How cool is that, to actually be useful to the team that invites you. Ok, finding bugs isn't the help they probably want at this stage,
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