Dave Burke : Freelance .NET Web Developer specializing in Online Communities

I've been asked about the Social Bookmarking widget I added to my BlogEngine.NET blog.  I wanted to give this to you along with a few instructions.  To be clear, very little of the widget is mine, so I'm more like passing it along instead of giving it away, but let's not quibble over seman... [More]

Supporting Multiple Master Pages in BlogEngine.NET is quite simple.  An example of a master page at dbvt.com different from my primary master page, i.e. with a different sidebar, is the Contact Page. To get started we're going to make a couple of changes in the BE.NET source library's BlogBaseP... [More]

It was important for me to upgrade DBVT.COM/BLOG from BlogEngine.NET 1.4 to 1.45 as soon as possible so I could focus on other Open Source Online Community application pursuits in the queue.  This weekend presented a window of opportunity to upgrade and I took it. I upgraded my blog once a mont... [More]

I found myself responding to tweets about BlogEngine.NET this afternoon.  I was communicating with a cyber-bud with whom I go way back through Community Server who like many other long-time CS users is looking at alternatives to Telligent products.  One of the things I was asked was to com... [More]

The first BlogEngine.NET site I customized and put online was version 1.3.1 in May for my sister.  BlogEngine-driven DBVT.COM went online in June with 1.3.1, which I upgraded to 1.4 in July.  Mads and crew have been feverishly adding improvements to 1.4 and earlier this week released 1.4.5... [More]

I'm going to describe the SQL Script I used to migrate from Community Server 2007 to BlogEngine.NET.  The complete script is available here, and as you'll see there's not very much to it. I walked through the script while writing up this post and successfully migrated a CS blog with it, but tak... [More]

I am pleased to announce that DBVT.COM has been upgraded to BlogEngine.NET 1.4.  Using my own custom theme required more attention to detail and a bit more typing, but I did most of the upgrade during Beach Week on my laptop sitting in a rocking chair on the back porch viewing the ocean.  ... [More]

This is the first appearance of the term "sueet" in the DBVT lexicon.  Think "Sweet" with a "u." I'll fill you in on all of that over time, but for now please bear with me and regard "Sueeties" as equivalent to CS Nuglets. My first BlogEngine.NET Sueetie has to do with upgrading membership from... [More]

Another cool Associates widget from Amazon, Product Preview Popups.  It's the first Amazon script I've used on my blog.  You can see the Preview Popups in action on my "Amazon Burst Buy" post.  Mouseover popups have several obvious advantages, providing additional book information to ... [More]

It was important for me to make a speedy and complete SEO transition of my four years of Community Server blog posts to BlogEngine.NET.  If tonight you went to Google and searched on "site:dbvt.com" you'd find a nice library of posts that click clean and true to their current location.  Th... [More]