I’ve posted a couple times about my wanting to take my part-time business full-time and the responses, while few, were encouraging. Well, I’ve made the decision, I’ve given notice, there’s no turning back now. Starting September 1st, Custom Community Systems, LLC will be a live full-time business for...
I've done a few projects now where the client wanted a video gallery and wasn't happy with the video support built into CS. I have to admit that adding videos in CS is cumbersome, and if you want to make a specific gallery you have to commit a forum to it, create a custom aggregate page, and just kind...
The words "I've been busy" do not even begin to describe what I've been up to. Yet, it still just sounds like an excuse. Well, today's post is not about politics or religion (not that there hasn't been plenty going on to talk about!), it's about my other favorite subject, Technology, specifically Community...
I’m at a cross-roads, a serious moment of indecision, and I’m hoping that I can get some advice, words of encouragement, or a serious dose of reality here. As many of you know, I’ve been moonlighting as a developer/designer for web sites running CommunityServer for a while now. I have a full-time job...
I’m up a little late tonight having a little trouble sleeping because I’m still messed up from the time fluctuation that occurs when you spend a week across country. So I’m catching up on my reading and ran across this post from Andy at World Wide Rant . I just watched The Island myself last week and...
I've upgraded trefry.net to the latest version of CommunityServer and from this point forward, in an effort to gather some activity at my sister site OnTheSoapbox I will be cross posting all of my blog entries over to a mirror blog at OnTheSoapbox . For those who don't know, OnTheSoapbox is a free and...