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What is a DotNetNuke Core Team member doing running CommunityServer on his personal web site? I'm not anymore! Last week I converted www.ChrisHammond.com from CommunityServer 2.1 to run on DotNetNuke 4.8.0! I typed up a HUGE blog post covering some of the details of the conversion. If you want to read about it (no one is forcing you to click this link) visit the post over on my personal website. Heck, my wife's website was running on DotNetNuke LONG before mine was, how sad is that?
I'm thrilled that my personal site finally runs on DNN as the benefits of using DotNetNuke rather than CommunityServer include (but are definitely not limited to) easier skinning, and easier extension of the platform by developing my own modules, or using third party modules. I'll be moving more of my "hobby" websites off of CommunityServer later this year! Check out the site if you have some time, let me know what you think! www.chrishammond.com
What's next? I need to get a new release going for the Wiki Module!!!!!
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If you've got nothing to do, take a moment to check out my recently converted personal website located at http://www.chrishammond.com Yesterday afternoon I did the final conversion from CommunityServer to DotNetNuke. There is still a lot of work to do for the site, I'll create a few new modules, need to implement the MetaBlogAPI, as well as some other new functionality but the biggest thing is that I need to work on a better skin for the site, which is one of the benefits of DotNetNuke VS CommunityServer. I can easily create and change the skin that my site is running, where CommunityServer was MUCH harder to skin. I'm definitely not a designer, if you can't tell by looking at the site, the skin that is up there now as just something I threw together quickly last night.
I still need to take the time and do a writeup of what all was involved in the conversion, I will try to get to that tomorrow. I had planned to do that tonight, but I kinda got sidetracked messing around with WM6 on my Samsung Blackjack!
If you're like me and you were waiting for WM6 to come out for the Blackjack the time has finally come! I blogged about it with some of the features over on my new website! Click here to visit the blog post discussing WM6 for the Blackjack.
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It looks like they are finally opening up weblogs.asp.net to more community members, good deal for everyone involved! Check out the post from Joe for more details how you can get your own blog here.
I've been blogging here for quite some time, 3 or 4 years at least now. It is a great place to get and share useful information relating to Microsoft web technologies!
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So I've been working for the past few weeks on an a little project. The goal is to convert http://chrishammond.com from CommunityServer to DotNetNuke. I'm not going to be using the DotNetNuke Blog module, instead I've been adding some new features into the Engage: Publish module so that it will support blog like functionality, with the ultimate goal of making it support nearly all the blog type functionality that you find in common blogging systems. I've spent probably 100 hours over the past month or two working on the module (mostly on my own time) to get it setup for the conversion.
I believe I have the software nearly ready to go so a few days ago while I was in Chicago for some DotNetNuke Training classes that I was conducting I started working on the SQL scripts that I will be using in the conversion. I have most of these scripts configured as the import process seems to be good, all the blog posts and tags are pulled over. I still have a few more things to finish up on the import process though.
Here's a list of things I need to do to get the site ready for the conversion. I'll mark them off as I get them completed.
Create conversion scripts for all blog posts (955 posts)Script to convert all tags (300+ tags)Script to convert all comments (1194 comments)- Create a URL Handler for the old to new URLs (an unknown number of urls)
- Skin the site (3 DNN pages initially with more in the future)
As I typed it up I see I have more left to do than I expected! I would like to see this will all be done by 1/6/2008 but I don't see that happening as it is 1am on the 6th right now. I'll keep working for a bit longer, then get back to it tomorrow evening after I watch American Gladiators!
More coming soon on my conversion from CommunityServer to DotNetNuke!
Update 2:30am 1/6/08: I've finished the conversion scripts for Comments now as well.