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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. Read More... Posted Thursday, July 26, 2007 8:00 PM by Sean Winstead | 1 Comments Filed under: CommunityServer, SQL

• 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 website Members log into your main ASP.NET website and you want Community Server to recognize that site's authentication Read More... Posted Monday, March 26, 2007 7:00 AM by Sean Winstead | 1 Comments Filed under: CommunityServer, authentication

• 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 Read More... Posted Thursday, January 04, 2007 3:15 PM by Sean Winstead | 4 Comments Filed under: CommunityServer, PaidSubscriber

• 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 Read More... Posted Thursday, December 21, 2006 11:30 PM by Sean Winstead | 4 Comments Filed under: CommunityServer, PaidSubscriber, PayPal

• 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 Read More... Posted Thursday, October 26, 2006 10:32 PM by Sean Winstead | 0 Comments Filed under: Blogs, CommunityServer

• 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 Read More... Posted Tuesday, September 26, 2006 8:00 AM by Sean Winstead | 2 Comments Filed under: CommunityServer

• 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 Read More... Posted Thursday, August 31, 2006 6:30 AM by Sean Winstead | 2 Comments Filed under: CommunityServer, PaidSubscriber

• 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 Read More... Posted Monday, August 21, 2006 10:30 PM by Sean Winstead | 2 Comments Filed under: CommunityServer, PaidSubscriber

• 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 Read More... Posted Monday, August 21, 2006 9:45 PM by Sean Winstead | 1 Comments Filed under: CommunityServer, PaidSubscriber

• 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 Read More... Posted Friday, August 18, 2006 9:00 AM by Sean Winstead | 5 Comments Filed under: CommunityServer, PaidSubscriber

• Subscriber Part 4: Payment gateways

  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 Read More... Posted Friday, August 18, 2006 8:00 AM by Sean Winstead | 3 Comments Filed under: CommunityServer, PaidSubscriber

• Subscriber Part 3: Multi site support

  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 Read More... Posted Thursday, August 17, 2006 10:30 AM by Sean Winstead | 4 Comments Filed under: CommunityServer, PaidSubscriber

• Subscriber Part 2: Initial flurry of questions

  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 Read More... Posted Thursday, August 17, 2006 10:15 AM by Sean Winstead | 3 Comments Filed under: CommunityServer, PaidSubscriber

• Subscriber Part 1: Basic requirements

  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 Read More... Posted Tuesday, August 15, 2006 11:30 PM by Sean Winstead | 2 Comments Filed under: CommunityServer, PaidSubscriber

• Writing an add-on for Community Server

  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 Read More... Posted Monday, August 14, 2006 10:45 PM by Sean Winstead | 4 Comments Filed under: CommunityServer, PaidSubscriber