At Least They Didn't Burn the Turkey

Just a quick note before I run off for the Thanksgiving holiday (USA). If you have been a subscriber to my RSS feed, you may have noticed a problem clicking through to my blog posts lately. This is because of a change that FeedBurner made a few weeks ago. They added extra parameter information to the connection string of links back to the blog.

This is theoretically a good thing, as it allows site logging to better determine where visitors are coming from. However, this blog uses the Community Kit for SharePoint: Enhanced Blogging Edition (CKS:EBE). The way CKS:EBE handles URLs doesn't allow it to correctly interpret these additional parameters. This resulted in broken page displays. You can still eventually navigate back to the right page, but it isn't as convenient as it should be.

I have just tested a patched version of CKS:EBE to resolve that problem. While the patch for the FeedBurner problem seems to work correctly, there are significant issues with other changes to the patched build of CKS:EBE. I noticed that my tag cloud was no longer resizing the keyword links to their proportions, for example, and there were major authentication problems. These glitches are bad enough that I decided to retract the update.

I apologize for the inconvenience. Rest assured, I'll continue working on getting links from FeedBurner working (without breaking everything else).

In the mean time, Have a Happy Turkey Day!