Rick Reszler

4 Year Telligent Anniversary

Rick Reszler — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 16:39:01 GMT

Today marks 4 years working full time @ Telligent.

I have seen lot of changes in 4 years but when we consider what we do, that is normal for Techology in order for it to continue to evolve.

I started out on the support team and in a very short time move to the hosting team, we are hard @ work preparing to take it to the next level!

I am proud to be a Telligenti!

GraffitiCMS 1.3 Beta is out!

Rick Reszler — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 12:40:21 GMT

I am just upgraded painlessly to 1.3 beta.

So far I am loving the new Post Editor and the Search Online for Themes and Plugins!

Be sure and give it a go today! http://graffiticms.codeplex.com/releases/view/51298

Forty-Four

Rick Reszler — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 14:19:00 GMT

Forty-four is:

The code for international direct dial phone calls to the United Kingdom
The designation of Interstate 44, a freeway that runs from Texas to Missouri
The designation of U.S. Route 44, a highway that runs from New York to Massachusetts
The designation of Pennsylvania Route 44(PA 44), a long state highway in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania
The name of a mysterious savior of Poland prophesied by the Polish national poet Adam Mickiewicz in his masterpiece drama Dziady (Forefathers).
A poker game in which each player is dealt four cards down, and four cards are dealt face down on the table in a row. The first three cards on the table are "community" cards and may be used in any player's hand. The fourth card and any card matching it in rank is wild, and can also be used in a hand (each player is guaranteed one wild card). For each of four rounds, one "community" card is flipped up and a round of betting occurs. After the last round, the winner is the person with the highest poker hand.
The .44 Magnum or .44 Special revolver cartridges
+44 is the name of the band including Blink-182 bassist Mark Hoppus and Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker.
Vicks Formula 44 is a cough suppressant
The number of the French department Loire-Atlantique
A blues song, Forty-Four, also known as "44 Blues"
The largest number for which Wolfram Alpha offers a visual representation
The 44th state of the USA is Wyoming
Barack Obama is the 44th President of The United States of America.
The number of candles in a box of Hanukkah candles.
The number 44 represents February 13 in leap or regular years on the Julian Calendar
Legendary Jazz trumpeter Woody Shaw was born in 1944 and died at age 44.
An agent in the American Television series Get Smart goes under the title of 44, usually assigned to small, enclosed, unexpected spots, to meet Maxwell Smart, agent 86
Rick Reszler's 44th year as a human

Graffiti CMS is now open source

Rick Reszler — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 09:36:00 GMT

We are excited to announce that Telligent has contributed Graffiti CMS to the open source community. The conversion has taken place and Graffiti CMS source code is now available on CodePlex:

http://graffiticms.codeplex.com/

There are several components distributed with Graffiti, those can be downloaded here:

http://graffiticms.com/lib/lib.zip

Graffiti has a strong developer following, and we encourage those involved with Graffiti to continue to provide peer-to-peer support for one another. Users and developers can continue collaborating together to enhance the product. We look forward to seeing the innovation the open source community will bring to Graffiti. We are especially thankful for some of the community members that stepped up and offered to help shepherd the project.

We at Telligent have enjoyed working with you and look forward to seeing Graffiti CMS continue to grow!

Original Post: http://telligent.com/company/news/b/teamblog/archive/2009/12/11/graffiti-cms-is-now-open-source.aspx

Facebook for Windows Mobile 6

Rick Reszler — Sat, 16 May 2009 00:26:25 GMT

New from Windows Mobile: a Facebook application for your phone! Download the new Facebook application for Windows Mobile and:

Send messages to any of the people in your Friends list.
Take pictures and videos on your phone, then upload them right to Facebook.
Send messages or call people in your Friends list.
Manage your profile and post anytime, anywhere.

Keep up with the latest news and posts with Facebook on your phone. Now your status updates can be up-to-the moment accounts of what you’re doing. Photos and videos are about as close to live-action as you can get. Show your friends what you’re up to, while you’re out and about.

Connecting and sharing on Facebook just got a lot livelier!

Download and More Info Here

Finally Hosting on IIS7

Rick Reszler — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 07:09:00 GMT

It's been a long time coming but it's finally here! I am hosting my blog on Windows 2008 Server and IIS 7.

So far I love it, the IIS team really did a nice job with this version and I have been very anxious to host my sites using it.

Performance and Stability so far have been great I will keep you posted.

Google's New Web Browser

Rick Reszler — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 19:39:48 GMT

I've been using Chrome Google's newest offering a web browser for about a week now and love it!

My favorite feature is Incognito Mode "Don't want pages you visit to show up in your web history? Choose incognito mode for private browsing." and I love the Dynamic Tabs "You can drag tabs out of the browser to create new windows, gather multiple tabs into one window or arrange your tabs however you wish -- quickly and easily".

So be sure and check it out and let me know what you think?

SpaceInvaders

Rick Reszler — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 05:51:00 GMT

How To: Change the Default Color for the Graffiti Skittlish Theme

Rick Reszler — Thu, 29 May 2008 04:20:00 GMT

For some reason I was scratching my head on this and even asked this of the Telligent Tip Master.

I guess this is partly due to the fact that I am still learning my way around Graffiti and mostly to do with the fact that I am more of a hacker then a dev. This is how easy it is to do and I hope it helps someone because I really love this theme!

Navigate to \wwwroot\files\themes\Skittlish\ and open up the app.js file.
Locate line 75 in the app.js file (in bold) change it to one of the other predefined colors for example I changed mine to cookie = 'fixed blue' I found the color names in the base.css file in the same folder. The choices are blue, cyan, green, orange, pink, red and violet.

/* el customizer */
function loadPreferences() {
var cookie = getCookie('skittlish');
if (cookie == '') {
cookie = 'fixed orange';
}

I also want to point out that this could all be done using just the site itself no FTP required. Just go to the ControlPanel -> Site Options -> Utilities -> File Browser then navigate to the path above and click on the app.js this will open up another page with an Edit button.

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Xcopy Deployment Method

Rick Reszler — Thu, 29 May 2008 02:09:00 GMT

This is one of the greatest and most simplest tools\tips for upgrading or deploying site code which I use almost everyday.

Basically you are creating a new folder on the server and copying all the existing files and folders for your site to the new folder and the best part is this includes the permissions. Then all you do is re-point your site or virtual directory to the new folder and since the home directory path was set to new folder there is no need for an application pool recycle and you will never suffer the dreaded dll lock. Another great thing about this is you can roll back in a jiffy if needed which is really nice for that unexpected oops when deploying to production.

What I do is use the date for naming the folders which also makes it easy to remember when the site was last updated. So for example I would use 052808 for updating a site today. Create a batch file called newfolder.bat with the following command: just edit the path to fit your needs.

<xcopy C:\Sites\mywebsite\050808 C:\Sites\mywebsite\052808 /o /e /y /c /i

After running the batch file then deploy your updated site files to the new folder replacing any existing files and folders with the same name. More info can be found here in this kb.