March 2009 - Posts
Also on the Edit Project Summary & Details page, you will see the option Show Discussion Tab? This is only to be used for projects that have pre-existing discussion boards living somewhere else. We highly recommend that you keep this feature enabled
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On the Edit Project Summary & Details page, there are five different ways you can display your project’s logo, as illustrated below. Project title only Logo only Logo with title on right bottom Logo with title in right center
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Under Edit Project Summary & Details, you can change the URL for your CodePlex project. And we will redirect from your old URL to your new URL. Note #1 - we only redirect from your original URL, in the case you rename the project multiple times. So
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The CodePlex Project Directory shows your project summary, and not the initial contents of your project homepage. Having a great project summary will help site visitors find your project and quickly understand whether it will meet your needs. Since the
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During the project creation process, the wizard asked you to provide a project summary (see below). We used to call this the project description, but thought project summary was a clearer terminology. In case you need to modify your project summary, you
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Am I really doing this to myself again? Well yes, kinda. One thing I learned from the Visual Studio Tip of the Day is that you can get a lot of great feedback if you scope a blog post to a single piece of functionality. I want to get this level of feedback
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Agile is the single greatest things a team could do to significantly improve the user experience and quality of their site. Now having said that... If I could go back in time… 3 things I would tell myself about Agile For a long time, I’ve said that my
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The day after Mardi Gras, I drove up to Hattiesburg, Mississippi for a Geek Dinner. We had a good turnout of 13 people, including several from out-of-state. 2 people drove several hours from Mobile, Alabama, and 1 guy even drove 6 hours from Tennessee!!
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Over on the CodePlex Team Blog, I announced the Open Source Club on CodePlex . An except from the post: The Open Source Club (OSC) is a group of volunteers who contribute what they can to the specified open source project each month. If you’ve ever wanted
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