Last month I received my first Community-Credit.com award. Today my prize showed up!
I am sure this alien will be abducted by someone else here at Engage before too long, but I will fight long and hard to protect my new office mate.
One day I need to take a picture of all the crap toys I have in my office.
If you aren't signed up on www.community-credit.com you should head over there and sign up!
I checked out http://www.openforce08.com this morning and saw that the Las Vegas information is posted! OpenForce is the official DotNetNuke conference, now in its second year.
If you're interested in going this year be sure to get talking to your boss! The early registration discounts come to a close at the end of August! If you need extra ammo to sell your boss, be sure to remind them that getting a ticket for OpenForce08 also gets you into all of the other great conferences going on with DevConnections, including ASP.NET connections, SQL Server magazine connections, Sharepoint connections and more! Just be sure when you register to register with the OpenForce track so that OpenForce gets the credit!
It should be another great conference just like last year, I look forward to seeing familar faces and meeting new ones.
I just posted the July 2008 St. Louis DotNetNuke Users Group information over on www.dnnug.com
Here's a short snippet
For the summer we're going back to meeting at the earlier time slot of 6pm!
July 21st, 2008
Location: Tricor Braun
Time: 6pm
Prizes: Cool Microsoft stuff!
Topic: The Repository module – Really you can use it for that too!
Presenter: Matthey Hile
Bio: Matthew G. Hile, Ph.D., is the Director of the Missouri Institute of Mental Health’s Behavioral Health Division and its Behavioral Informatics Program. A licensed psychologist, he was trained at the University of Kentucky in clinical and community psychology. Dr. Hile has been an active researcher in behavioral informatics since 1984 and is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association. He has published numerous peer reviewed articles and has edited two books focusing on issues in behavioral informatics.
This October 6th and 7th in Noordwijkerhout The Netherlands OpenForce08 Europe will be held in conjunction with the Seventeenth SDN Conference. The list of speakers for SDN has been posted, it also includes the list of speakers for OpenForce Europe. You can check it out here (in english)
I'm excited for the opportunity to travel to Europe for the first time. As an Air Force brat growing up I got to visit South Korea, Japan, Hong Kong and Australia, but this will be my first time travelling to Europe. I'll be presenting on three topics at OpenForce Europe:
DotNetNuke Installation, Administration and Optimization Techniques for Cambrian
Friendly URLs and SEO best practices for websites (DNN Slant)
Developing a consulting business around Open Source software.
Some of the other DNN sessions include:
Create a DotNetNuke module using Delphi.NET Erik van Ballegoij
Building Secure DotNetNuke installations Cathal Connolly
Using Web 2.0 APIs in DotNetNuke modules Cathal Connolly
Create a DotNetNuke skin from a website design Cathal Connolly
DotNetNuke Module Applications Stefan Cullmann
Introduction into Forms & Lists (UDT 5.0) Stefan Cullmann
Skinning Enhancements in DotNetNuke 5 Nik Kalyani
Developing Vista Sidebar Gadgets Using DotNetNuke Nik Kalyani
Leverage DotNetNuke with SharePoint Stefan Kamphuis
Using Mail and Messaging Services in DNN5 Sebastian Leupold
How to provide and identify Quality of DotNetNuke extensions? Sebastian Leupold
Test Driven DotNetNuke Module Development Charles Nurse
A Deep Dive into the latest version of DotNetNuke Charles Nurse
A Deep Dive into the DotNetNuke Property Editor Charles Nurse
DotNetNuke framework: a hidden juwel? Ernst Peter Tamminga
DotNetNuke 5.0 Shaun Walker
DotNetNuke Chalk & Talk Shaun Walker
You can get full details on each of the sessions, as well as all of the other SDN sessions over on their site.
See you in the Netherlands!!!!!!!!
For the past few months I've been working on a project in my freetime (what free time) that I am proud to say has finally been launched!
Check it out at DotNetNukeBlogs.com. The goal of the site is to provide a single source providing links to the best DNN blog posts across the web.
Here are a few key features about the site
1. The site only aggregates the Title and Descriptions for blog posts, links will take you directly to the blog post on the originating site, unlike other aggregation sites DotNetNukeBlogs.com consumes only the descriptions provided in the RSS feed and does not to link to them on a middleman page on the same.
2. We aren't adding feeds ourselves, feed authors must add their own feeds to the site via the Feeds page, you must be registered and logged in to do so. Once you add a feed we will go through and verify that a feed contains DNN related posts before it will be consumed.
3. All of the blog posts from the approved feeds are aggregated in the site are screened for DNN topics first, we will do our best to keep non-DNN posts from the aggregate feed.
4. We've got a few things on the Cool Stuff page, such as a free DNN module that displays the latest posts from the site, as well as images you can put on your own site to link to DotNetNukeBlogs.com
5. We've currently got 4 of the most active bloggers in the DotNetNuke community aggregated in the site, you can get your own blog included in there with them!
Right now we are only supporting the consumption of RSS formatted feeds, not ATOM or other formats at this time.
I would love to hear any comments relating to the site. A big thanks to Cuong Dang from Engage Software for the graphics/html work site!
The newest version of the DotNetNuke Wiki Module project has been released to the public today, it is available from the downloads page here on DotNetNuke.com. You can see the release notes here in the thread in the Wiki Forum
This version of the Wiki module has quite a few bug fixes from the 04.00.01 release from 2007. It also has some new functionality such as
- The ability to add a page without having to "edit" another page
- IPortable functionality (thanks to Stefan Cullmann)
- SEO Support for Wiki Pages (define page title, keywords, descriptions)
A big thanks to everyone who tested this module in our Beta process, it was very helpful in ironing out the issues.
The Wiki team will be getting overhauled here in the next few weeks and we will begin an overhaul of the project itself. A lot of the UI is built in codebehind, we will be moving this UI out into user controls to make the module more flexible for the next major release.
Thanks for your patience with this release, as with all module installs/upgrades, be sure to backup your file system and database before installing the module.
I hear the INETA newsletter went out on Tuesday morning so I can finally make this blog post, though I have still yet to see a copy of the newsletter. It is with great pleasure that I get to post that I have been added to the INETA Speakers Bureau, I've been presenting at user groups over the past 3-4 years talking about everything DotNetNuke and with this new honor look forward to increasing the number of groups I can visit. I am definitely not limited to DNN, but do have quite a bit of experience with the project as a core team member, module developer and instructor for DNN training classes. If you would like to learn more about DotNetNuke be sure to check out www.dotnetnuke.com as well as my recently launched (or soon to be launched) project at www.dotnetnukeblogs.com where we aggregate DNN blogs for the masses.
Joe Brinkman was also added to the bureau as a DNN resource, Joe planned the OpenForce conference in Las Vegas last year, as well as the upcoming conference this November (which I get the pleasure of presenting at again)! Along with the two DNN resources Carl Franklin was reactivated to the bureau, Richard Campbell (not my boss), Andrew Connell and Daniel Larson were also added in this latest round.
David Walker is doing a lot with the speakers bureau on Facebook and Twitter, so be sure to check out the various groups he has created.
Thanks again to everyone with the INETA program, I look forward to making the most of the opportunities this honor will provide.
So a few weeks ago I finally bucked up and built myself a new computer for gaming/development/video editing at home. I went with a Q6600, 4gb of ram, 1.15tb of drive space (150gb 10krpm, 1tb 7200rpm), a 550w power supply, and a shiny new case. I also put in a new NVidia 260 GTX video card into it.
It was money well spent! For development purposes our largest DNN module, Engage Publish now runs its nant script in 5.9 seconds, down from 21.5 on my old desktop at home, as well as my desktop at work. My new laptop that I got a few weeks ago runs the script in 13 seconds.
Tonight I'll work on some racing video from the past few months to post over on www.corvettez06.org, I have a feeling it will be much easier to manage on this new machine, both my old machine and the new laptop have trouble working with the HD video that I get out of my Canon HV20.
I played some Counter-Strike Source last night for the first time in a long time, I think I will have to add that back into my weekly routine of fun as I have missed that experience! Now, if I can just get the rest of the guys at www.qoda.net to start playing again.\
My new Windows Vista Experience Index score is 5.6, all of the hardware but the memory I installed rates at 5.9.
So a month ago Antonio got me started on www.community-credit.com, it took me a few weeks to actually start using the site, but I managed to get quite a few items into the site in the month of June and actually won an award! I came in seventh for the month of June and won the following new office mate.
Alien invades a pool
Was it coincidence there was a reported UFO sighting the same night we inflated this green alien? Start your own alien invasion!
Once he arrives I will take some photos of him in my office, along with all the other "things" I have here. He should fit right in!
Thanks to David Silverlight for all the help this past month with community-credit.com, I'm currently working on an enhancement module for DNN that will allow you to submit blog posts/articles made with Engage Publish to www.Community-credit.com.
I'll be doing plenty of blogging and forum posts as usual for the month of July, though I don't have any user group presentations currently lined up this month, I am always open to user group requests, and hopefully will have another blog announcement later today with some new cool details about speaking!
Here's a quick DotNetNuke Tip.
If you want to have your Copyright statement that will appear in the DNN Copyright token (skinobject) of a skin you can do the following.
Edit your Portal's settings, in the copyright section remove the copyright statement. If you do this, DNN will sub in the copyright statement in the format of
Copyright (c) YEAR PORTALNAME where the YEAR will be replaced by the current year, and the PORTALNAME will be replaced with the name of the portal.
Just another quick tip, I've been using DNN for over 5 years, and still learn something new on a daily basis!
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