Sara Ford's Weblog

I’m at TechEd 2009 presenting on CodePlex – from how to consume and contribute to open source software using the CodePlex feature set, to how we use agile development to deploy every 3 weeks. All sessions will be available 24 hours after the talk. Stay...

With Thursday’s deployment (5/7/2009), you can now hyperlink an image on your homepage. The fun of voting campaigns on Twitter. The syntax is [image:Alternative Text|file.jpg|http://www.codeplex.com] or [image:Alternative Text|http://www.domain.com/file...

Yesterday, I got an email that started off with “i’ve heard a rumor that…” Nothing bothers a PM more than hearing a supported feature referred to as a rumor. If you’re using a SVN client, like Tortoise, you can mark a work item as fixed when you commit...

With the April 9 deployment, we introduced the ability to directly link to a file to download off of the Release page. Now you can blog about your latest release and have people download it directly. Here’s a direct download for the xUnit.net project...

You may have noticed that some projects have a Download Now button on their homepage Whereas other projects don’t. I would love for all projects to have just a Download Now button, but unfortunately, we currently don’t have a default file concept in the...

In the CodePlex project directory, you can sort by Ratings to find the highest rated releases. In the image below, you can see that the Clone Detective for Visual Studio project. You can also apply a little more context by filtering the results using...

Thanks to Wictor Wilen for twittering / blogging about this tip ! If you’re tired of having to type in your user credentials each and every time you open your project, you can have Windows save the username and password for you. From the CodePlex documentation...

As mention previously, I’m going to use Fridays to write more a detailed tip or article about CodePlex. For those who just want to follow this weekly tip, you can subscribe to just the CodePlex Weekly Tips RSS feed (see bottom of post). Otherwise, you...

You can visit the full tag cloud at http://www.codeplex.com/Tagging/FullTagCloud.aspx to get a bird’s eye view on how people have been tagging projects. By default, we show the top 200 most commonly-used tags. I’m open to any suggestions or feedback how...

All CodePlex projects have a section on the bottom right-side of their homepage under the Activity section where you can apply tags. We’ll also provide some suggestions as you begin to tag your project. Those tags will be used in our project directory...

Since the poll on twitter and on my blog was slightly towards a daily tip summary, I’m going to continue doing a daily format. However, I might for Fridays do some sort of “activity-based” tip or a bigger tip (rather than these micro tips) using an additional...

Just wanted to pause for a second to check in with you all whether you like this daily tip format, or whether I should group the tips together based on tasks and move to a weekly tip? I can easily keep going as a daily series, but just want to make sure...

When we introduced Reviews last summer, we included their notifications in the Releases RSS feed. We heard feedback that the Releases RSS feed became pretty noisy. We recently separated the two feeds. Now project followers can get updates on new Releases...

In the far right on a CodePlex project is the RSS button. When you click on the RSS link or button, you’ll see a list of RSS feeds to choose from. All Project Updates will show you all activity on the site, from source code check-ins to updates to work...

On the right-hand side of a project’s wiki page, you’ll find the search wiki box. The search will come back with all the wiki pages where a result was found. Technorati Tags: CodePlexTips

This is probably an easily-overlooked little feature that could help in your wiki editing. At the bottom of the Compose tab in the Wiki editing view, there’s an “enlarge input box” link. Clicking on this link will make the edit box longer, as shown below...

I’ve been wanting to write this post for a while. On Nov 6, I’ll test for my second-degree black belt in Shotokan Karate . Karate is a significant part of my life, so this belt exam means the world to me (especially after my leg injury 2 years ago). I...

It can be really easy to navigate away from your unsaved wiki edits, especially if you’re looking for a particular page or release to link to. Because of this, we’ve added a “Are you sure you want to navigate away?” alert whenever we detect you’re leaving...

You can use the following wiki syntax {silverlight:url=http://yourdomain.com/yourapp.xap,height=400,width=600} Check out http://silverlight.codeplex.com and http://sessionscheduler.codeplex.com to see examples. We introduced support for showing Silverlight...

I always have to look up the syntax to hyperlink text in our wiki markup guide . There’s an example of how to insert a link, but not how to hyperlink text. If you want to hyperlink “CodePlex Homepage” to “http://www.codeplex.com” The wiki syntax is [url...

To have the CodePlex wiki engine ignore markup, you’ll want to use {“ and “} as shown below. Now in the Preview you can see how the wiki syntax is ignored. Technorati Tags: CodePlexTips

Yesterday’s tip was how to view revisions for a specific page. Today’s tip is how to view revisions for the entire wiki. On the sub navigation pane, there’s the Change History (all pages) link. This page shows a change history across all the pages in...

As a New Orleans native, it is my god given birthright to expose any so-called “New Orleans” restaurant that exists outside the state of Louisiana to be a complete fraud. Today, for the first time ever, I am using my birthright to declare Marcela’s Creole...

On the wiki sub-navigation pane, there’s the link Page Info . At the top of the page, you can see the individual revisions for the page. Over on the right-hand side, you’ll find other information about the page. To me, this content seems hidden, especially...

Ever since I joined the CodePlex team, I’ve wanted to learn something web developer-ish. At long last, I was finally able to make the time to start learning CSS and Javascript by writing the CodePlex Tips Gadget and by re-skinning the CodePlex Team blog...