Wednesday, January 09, 2008
[yet another upgrade]
case opened
upgraded this site to community server 2007.1 yesterday. went rather smooth, except for some hiccups that i always have with the junk i do on my own blog (i have to enable all kinds of markup), and a burp or two because our blogs are at the site root instead of under /blogs.
[reminder - some settings in SiteUrls.config:
<location name="weblogs" path="/" physicalPath="/blogs/" themeDir="blogs" type="CommunityServer.Blogs.Components.BlogLocation, CommunityServer.Blogs" >
"path" was originally /blogs/, and i added physicalPath]
changing case
I have to say, though, that some of my skinning issues were not my fault: some nimrod over at telligent managed to change the case of some id's of some elements, which was making some scripting fail without messages.
another thing i'm noting is that CS is changing some names to all lowercase within script tags. this is a real problem, but i can see why this slipped through the cracks, as such things are normally disallowed.
meanwhile, WLW is doing similar case changing games with stuff in style tags... *sigh* which didn't use to be a problem in older browsers, but now everything is case sensitive.
just in case
also, i like the old calendar control layout / styling much better. i have to look into what it takes to return it to its former primitive glory. i think it's probably just a few css tweaks.
while i was at it the other day i also linked up some old comments from the .text anonymous days with a few existing user accounts, where the attribution was obvious. now, in cs2.1, that meant that looking at a user's profile and clicking on posts would display the entire list, but in this version, they've changed the criteria so that it only picks up forum posts for users without a weblog here themselves. kinda screwy; i understand the logic, but i think it was more useful the other way. perhaps it's only a skinning thing, these chameleon controls have some interesting filtering properties; i'll have to look at this at some point.
anyway, bear with the test post here & there as i make sure various tools & feeds link up properly.
basket case
update:
[11:18:48] ChrisS: finally: http://blogs.no-ip.org/blogs/del.icio.us.ashx
[11:19:18] ChrisS: there are definitely issues with upgrading a CS installation and copying new files over the old files
[11:19:39] ChrisS: while that saves work migrating images, etc - it can create .net namespace collisions
this in reference to two versions of CookComputing.XmlRpc, one left over from the old version. bah. ok, time to test that again.
update:
14:53 - finally, verified that the del.icio.us automatic daily blog posting is working properly. not bad for an old hack with notepad ;-)
case closed