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  • Speeding up cs_SearchBarrel_Search

    I've been working on a Community Server project where we're migrating a customer from an existing platform into Community Server 2007. There are over 260,000 posts in their forums. I ran into a performance issue with the Search Barrel provider. The stored proc was taking a wee bit too long to scan through the posts. I messed around with ...
    Posted to A Precarious Balance (Weblog) by Sean on July 26, 2007
  • Community Server: Single-Sign-On in reverse

    Community Server's Single-Sign-On modules handle the case where:You have an ASP.NET website with an adjoining Community Server websiteMembers log into your main ASP.NET website and you want Community Server to recognize that site's authentication of the memberWhat if members log into your Community Server website but not your ...
    Posted to A Precarious Balance (Weblog) by Sean on March 26, 2007
  • First production use of payment gateway

    I've been putting the payment gateway portion of the Paid Subscriber add on through various tests. Running it over and over in a test environment is helpful, but there's nothing like the real thing. Yesterday I finished putting together a proposal to skin a site. I'm in the US and the customer is in the UK. It made ...
    Posted to A Precarious Balance (Weblog) by Sean on January 4, 2007
  • Integrating Community Server with PayPal

    It's been a while since I wrote about the Paid Subscriber project. That's because I did enough talking and needed to get something done. Well...part of it is done! There's now a somewhat generic payment engine that plugs into Community Server and integrates with PayPal. And when I say ''generic'', the code is structured such ...
    Posted to A Precarious Balance (Weblog) by Sean on December 21, 2006
  • Falafel Software moves to Community Server 2.1

    Over the past few years, I've had the opportunity to work with the guys at Falafel Software. They recently decided to redo their company website, choosing Community Server as their blogging and forums engine. I moved their existing blogs and comments from DNNForge into CS using hand-crafted SQL. The tricky part was turning their ...
    Posted to A Precarious Balance (Weblog) by Sean on October 26, 2006
  • Back from Telligent summit

    This last weekend, I was one of the people fortunate enough to make it to the Community Server summit. Dave Burke posts about it here and here. All I can say is that meeting with some of the community members and Telligent folks is one of the best times I've had this year. There's nothing like seeing a company and its people for what it is. ...
    Posted to A Precarious Balance (Weblog) by Sean on September 26, 2006
  • Subscriber Part 7: Custom maintenance screen

    UPDATE: If you've come here looking for information about integrating PayPal into Community Server or about paid subscriptions for Community Server, I and several other Community Server technical evangelists have put together a product named Four Roads Commerce. You can find information about it at the Four Roads ...
    Posted to A Precarious Balance (Weblog) by Sean on August 31, 2006
  • Subscriber Part 6: Adding language resources

    UPDATE: If you've come here looking for information about integrating PayPal into Community Server or about paid subscriptions for Community Server, I and several other Community Server technical evangelists have put together a product named Four Roads Commerce. You can find information about it at the Four Roads ...
    Posted to A Precarious Balance (Weblog) by Sean on August 21, 2006
  • Subscriber status

    UPDATE: If you've come here looking for information about integrating PayPal into Community Server or about paid subscriptions for Community Server, I and several other Community Server technical evangelists have put together a product named Four Roads Commerce. You can find information about it at the Four Roads ...
    Posted to A Precarious Balance (Weblog) by Sean on August 21, 2006
  • Subscriber Part 5: Writing a custom data provider

    UPDATE: If you've come here looking for information about integrating PayPal into Community Server or about paid subscriptions for Community Server, I and several other Community Server technical evangelists have put together a product named Four Roads Commerce. You can find information about it at the Four Roads ...
    Posted to A Precarious Balance (Weblog) by Sean on August 18, 2006
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