Kevin Tunis

After several attempts to get the theme the way I wanted. I emailed Scott Watermasysk in which he replied that it was the CSS I was working on. I finally ended up deleting the theme I was working on as it simply was not responding at all. I did however get my theme to basically look like I wanted by modifying the theme that Rich Mercer ported from Free CSS Templates designed by NodeThirtyThree . In retrospect I am finding it seems easier to convert or port a theme to Graffiti. Some of the items that still need work; After you click on a post the title is not linked and shows up as gray in color...

This the second in a series for Graffiti CMS (graffiticms.com); after migrating my blog from Community Server to Graffiti CMS, I decided to create a theme from scratch instead of using the ones that are available or converting a WordPress theme. I thought I would start by going over to Visual Studio and create the theme there so I can get the look I wanted. My general idea is that I want both the left and right side bar on the left side of my content so I can take advantage of Graffiti’s widgets. I have managed to do this with one of the prepackaged themes that came with Graffiti –...

After downloading GraffitiCMS, I had decided that I would like to keep my post from Community Server blog. Backup your Community Server SQL Database (just in case) Create a new SQL database for your Graffiti site Run the SQL Query's - Graffiti_SQL_Schema.sql and Graffiti_SQL_Data.sql in this order Go to _config/settings.config file and change the AppSetting Key "DataBuddy::Provider" value to "DataBuddy.SQLDataProvider Download and install Jayme Davis alpha migration tool http://ndepth.net/blog/graffiti-beta-is-launched Copied the connectionString from my Community Server connectionString...

In the last two or three weeks I have been working onSilverlight ads and how to add them to your website. I had emailed or left comments to other developers using Silverlight how to do this in which I have had very few answers. One answer was to use it to display it in an iframe; to me this takes away the effect and personally I am not fond of iframe’s.Today while reading my feeds at reader.google.com, I discovered that Ronan Geraghty's has written a post and provided a download sample at http://tinyurl.com/youyv7 I will begin reviewing it this weekend....

At the Haskell County fair at Sublette Kansas, both my daughters brought home some ribbons. My oldest Tiffany, age 10, won division champion for her self-determine project on weather and my youngest Ashley, age7, got third in showmanship and third for obedience for showing her dog –a Jack Russell terrier in which I very much liked the comment of the judge for her effort: “Good job with a challenging dog. Did not get frustrated or upset.” My oldest has always wanted and is “the weathergirl” in which she is always telling people about the weather. She is using the money...

Building applications that talk to one another creating networks which is what we have been doing and why I have been interested in knowledge networks. One of my objectives was to build this with Microsoft technologies;the tools are there but making them work as a knowledge network and gettingthem to talk to each other… This is one of the reasons I have been following Nova Spivack with his Radar Networks – his post the other day Knowledge Networking - a great roadmap to where the social should be heading and is....

RobConery hands over control of CommerceStarter Kit to Chris Cyvas of Mettle Systems. Hey Chris,congratulations – I will be look forward to where Commerce Starter Kit goes from here. If anybody needs a host for testing Commerce Starter Kit , email me Kevin@knowledgemgmtsolutions.com...

Finally a blog for MicrosoftVirtualization ; a place where maybe we can communicate directly with the virtualizationteam. Maybe now we can find out why Microsoft Exchange 2007 is not supported on Virtual Server or if we build the Microsoft Solution for Hosted Messaging and Collaboration 3.5 virtually on a server, what resources do we need on that server?...

Recently, using the “ New Vote ” application from within Facebook I asked this question“Which Social Network do you use the most?” with the options being Plaxo , Facebook , Twitter and Linkedin . To date it seems to be Facebook , want to add to the vote, view my profile at Facebook or leave acomment here....

I do not look at my stats that much, as I would rather read my comments and interact with my readers. I thought I would just take a look today as I had not looked at them since joining Facebook . I must say I found these somewhat interesting; especially since joining Pownce only 3 days ago. Google.com (58%) Twittervision.com (7%) Silverlight.com (7%) Facebook.com (7%) msn.com (6%) Technorati.com (6%) Pownce.com (3%) CommunityServer.org (3%) Blog.wekeroad.com (2%) Aol.com (1%)...