Brian Dukes, Web Developer

[Personal] Purple Lemon Photography is on the web!

bdukes — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 03:48:00 GMT

Earlier this year, my wife, Nikki, and I started her own photography business, Purple Lemon Photography. We've had a lot of fun getting setup and figuring out how to run a busines, as well as seeing how people respond to the images that Nikki takes. Tonight...(read more)

Embedding JavaScript and Other Resources In a .NET Assembly

bdukes — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 16:21:00 GMT

.csharpcode.embedding-javascript { font-size: small; font-family: consolas, "Courier New", courier, monospace; /*white-space: pre;*/ } pre.csharpcode.embedding-javascript { color: #000; background-color: #fff; } .csharpcode.embedding-javascript pre {...(read more)

Engage: Rotator 2.0

bdukes — Mon, 04 May 2009 15:12:00 GMT

We just released a major update to our DotNetNuke content rotation module, Engage: Rotator. You can read all about the release on my Engage Software blog ....(read more)

Packaging Modules for DotNetNuke 5

bdukes — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 15:00:00 GMT

We just released Engage: Events , and realized that our DNN 4 compatible package might not work exactly as we'd like when used in DNN 5. If you're a DNN module developer, you probably already know that there have been a ton of changes to the module installer...(read more)

Engage: Events 1.1

bdukes — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 20:45:00 GMT

The first major update for Engage: Events has been released! Engage: Events is the event management module for DotNetNuke from Engage Software . Many of the users of the 1.0 version of Events wanted to display a small, simple list of events in a prominent...(read more)

Understanding Module Isolation in DotNetNuke

bdukes — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 20:55:00 GMT

Also known as "Why Did My Skin Just Change?" and "Why Doesn't NavigateURL work?" When navigating to between controls within your DotNetNuke module, you have many options (and would do well to read Michael Washington's Module Navigation tutorial on the...(read more)

Engage: Employment 1.4 for DotNetNuke

bdukes — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:14:00 GMT

Have you heard of our Engage: Employment module for DotNetNuke ? I'm talking about our module for posting job listings on your website and allowing folks to apply for them. We have today released a new version of the module to fix a number of bugs that...(read more)

Get Module by Module ID in DotNetNuke

bdukes — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:14:00 GMT

When building DotNetNuke modules, a number of times I've run up against the issue of trying to instantiate a ModuleInfo instance with only a module ID. However, the GetModule signature on ModuleController takes both a module ID and a tab ID. In this latest...(read more)

Check your CSS for DotNetNuke 4.9.0

bdukes — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 22:10:00 GMT

I started on an update to one of our modules for DotNetNuke this week, and was surprised to see many of the administrative pages looked like they had no styles applied to them. Tables were jumbled, with no differentiation between header and or row...(read more)

Tulsa TechFest 2008 Wrap-Up

bdukes — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 20:58:00 GMT

We at Engage spent the end of last week in Tulsa, presenting and participating in the 3rd annual Tulsa TechFest . My colleague Ian has written up a great review, with links to all of our presentations on his blog . I presented on Building a DotNetNuke...(read more)

C# Compiled DotNetNuke Module Template

bdukes — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:15:00 GMT

It shouldn't be hard to get started writing a module for DotNetNuke , but it doesn't seem like there's a whole lot of help especially when you are wanting to use C#. At Engage , we have created a Visual Studio project template which will get you started...(read more)

Introducing Engage: Events 1.0

bdukes — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:30:00 GMT

After three public pre-releases, and weeks of wrestling through user-submitted bugs and those we found (so that you don't have to!), we are now ready to release Engage: Events to the eagerly awaiting public! After we cemented our feature-set in the Beta...(read more)

DotNetNuke Gotcha: Upgrading DotNetNuke Modules

bdukes — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:40:00 GMT

I was recently tasked with investigating a mysterious error on a customer's site, which I finally tracked down to an oversight in the upgrade process of a DotNetNuke module. The error threw up a YSOD , (though in later testing on a different site, it...(read more)

Engage: Events Alpha.2 is released!

bdukes — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:31:00 GMT

We've released the next Alpha release of the Engage: Events module for DotNetNuke. Try it out and let us know what you think and what you'd like to see from this module. ...(read more)

Announcing the Alpha release of Engage: Events!

bdukes — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:19:00 GMT

We've been hard at work to create a new DotNetNuke module to manage your website's events. Take a look and let us know where you want us to go with it....(read more)