April 2009 - Posts
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
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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
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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
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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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.
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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’ve
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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
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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
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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:CodePlex
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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
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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
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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 Macrella’s Cookery
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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
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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.
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On the sub-navigation bar, you’ll see the link Print View . Clicking on this link will open the wiki page into a new browser window, with a link to send the page to the printer. Technorati Tags: CodePlexTips
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On the homepage of any CodePlex project, you’ll find the “View All Comments” link in the secondary navigation bar. A few months ago, we introduced the ability to see all wiki page comments in a single place. Now, there’s no more having to go through each
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On any wiki page, excluding the homepage, you’ll find the section at the bottom to leave comments. The comment section is to provide feedback about the content on that page. Until Dec 2008, it was possible to leave comments on a project’s wiki homepage,
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From time to time I see questions on Twitter (yes, I search for “codeplex” using TweetDeck) about how to create a new wiki page. For those not familiar with wiki editing, it can take some getting used to. In the edit mode of your wiki, you’ll type in
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A better question is who should be able to edit the project’s wiki? Sneak peek below at new designs below. But, first things first. If you are signed-in as a member of the project (project owner, coordinator, or developer), you’ll find the Edit link appear
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We offer a section on a CodePlex project homepage to list related projects at the bottom of the right-nav bar. Go to the Edit Project Summary & Details page to list your related projects. Technorati Tags: CodePlexTips
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No April Fool’s jokes this year. Sorry. By default, we include all site traffic in the Stats page. If you want only user traffic recorded in your Stats page, you can uncheck the follow option from Edit Project Summary & Details: Technorati Tags: CodePlexTip
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