Community Server 2.0 Beta 3 released!

January 24, 2006

Rob Howard and the gang at telligent just released CS 2.0 Beta 3 of Community Server.

Here is list the covers the majority of the checkins during the Beta 3 milestone….

3,769 files changed or were added from Beta 2 to Beta 3 (12/16 - 1/23)

See the announcement above for a summary of the changes that are encompassed in this release.

Of course, the biggest drawback to them releasing Beta 3 today is that we just rolled out Beta 2 last Friday on MyHomePoint … after spending 10-15 hours to customize it! I’ll probably have to go back through a re-do everything. I knew that was going to happen though and am not complaining. Shouldn’t be too bad though since I’ll just do a diff on our install and the original Beta 2 files to identify our changes and then I’ll just try to incorporate those changes into the new files. At least that’s my plan unless someone else has another suggestion?

When we started getting serious about implementing Community Server for our blog and forum platform for MyHomePoint, I was faced with the same situation we all face: Go with the stable release or tempt fate and go with not only a new x.0 version but do it with the beta! Granted there is always the option of holding out 6 months for the stable x.1 release, but who doesn’t like to live dangerously! Anyway, the one thing I was most nervous about in going with Beta 2 was whether or not I could tweak everything the way I wanted without the source code. I was pleasantly surprised to see how well separated all the pages, controls and skins worked together to pretty much allow you complete flexibility to skin/style almost every aspect to whatever degree you wanted. And once I figured out how things were organized (which surprisingly enough is similar to how we have MyHomePoint architected [hmm.. could it be because we loosely based some of our high-level architecture on earlier versions of the original forums.asp.net code?] it really didn’t take too long to get everything changed. The thing I enjoyed most was having div tags with unique attributes that could be targeted directly from the style sheets.

Anyway, not sure when I’ll have a chance to update MyHomePoint but I can’t wait to download it and try it out.

Good work guys!

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Posted by Matt Smith | Filed Under General 

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One Response to “Community Server 2.0 Beta 3 released!”

  1. Jason Alexander on January 25th, 2006 1:31 am

    Hey Matt,

    Great stuff - yeah, that’s the best thing to do is diff the two file sets. We’ve had to do that with a few of our solutions clients that we implemented on earlier builds, and it worked great.

    MyHomePoint looks cool! I will definitely have to check it out further now!

    Thanks for all the compliments!

    Take care,
    -Jason

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