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Like last year there are now Conference Badges available for both OpenForce 08 Conferences, Europe and Las Vegas. If you're attending and want to tell people that, check out the individual pages for each conference to get the badges. I am fortunate enough to be able to attend both conferences this year, after attending Las Vegas last year.
I have the badges posted over on http://www.chrishammond.com/ as well as http://www.dotnetnukeblogs.com/
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I must say a few things about the User Defined Table (UDT) module for DotNetNuke, I have seen it, but hardly ever used it. I had a site that was using it that I needed to make some changes to tonight, I've been putting off the changes because I was afraid of them.
Wow, the UDT module rocks, if you haven't used it check it out, I will try to do a full writeup on the module soon, but long story short. You can create a lot of different formats with your data using the XSL, but even if you don't know or feel comfortable with XSL check out the XSL generator that is included in the module! It makes like way easier!
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Has your DotNetNuke site had a checkup lately? Do you know how big your database is? Do you know how big your database is? How many records are in your event log? site log? What about the last time it was backed up? Have you looked to see how many of your pages don't have Descriptions or Keywords defined?
You can find out all of that information plus more with the Engage: Dashboard module. You can check out some of the other features here. If you have any questions about the module feel free to let me know. This is something we've had in the works for quite a while, it's exciting to see it out in the public now.
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Have you voted in the Packt Open Source CMS awards yet? If not head on over and be sure to vote for DotNetNuke! If you're really feeling generous you could vote for a Open Source CMS MVP as well, wink wink, nudge nudge!
From the Packt Site
"The Packt Open Source Content Management System Award is designed to encourage, support, recognize and reward Open Source Content Management Systems (CMS) that have been selected by a panel of judges and visitors to www.PacktPub.com. Now entering its third year, the Award has established itself as an important measure for quality and the popularity of Open Source Content Management Systems.
The 2008 Award will continue to support a range of open source Content Management Systems with four main categories offering prize money of $5,000 for the overall winner and $2,000 for the winners of the remaining categories.
So get voting!
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We've had a few international DotNetNuke feeds submitted to www.dotnetnukeblogs.com, until we have the site setup to provide separate RSS feeds for different languages I've gone ahead and included these new feeds in the main feed (http://feeds.feedburner.com/DotnetnukeBlogs)
If you have a DotNetNuke related blog be sure to get it listed on the site, you can get more information about what our requirements are for adding a feed to the site here.
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This will be a quick DotNetNuke Tip, but a worthwhile one nonetheless! I've seen this question asked tons of times, and even got an email from someone this weekend asking the very same thing.
"Where do you change the “from” email address for emails sent by dnn to confirm/notify registration?"
That's a somewhat easy one to answer. On the Admin/Site Settings page there is a dropdown box that allows you to choose the Administrator Account for a portal. That account (user) that you choose there is the email address that portal registration emails come from, and most emails from the portal in general. You can have multiple people defined in the Administrators role for a portal, but you can only have one listed here as the administrator.
To change the email address either edit that profile for the user you have selected, or choose a different user!
More of my DotNetNuke Daily Tips can be found here.
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[QUOTE]
We’re sorry, but your Gmail account is currently experiencing errors. You won’t be able to use your account while these errors last, but don’t worry, your account data and messages are safe. Our engineers are working to resolve this issue.
Please try accessing your account again in a few minutes.
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Oh Gmail, please come back!
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Mostly for my own purposes I'm making this blog post to keep track of what commands to use to send to the command line to batch encode files with Windows Media Encoder. I'm trying to do this now with AVI files I've processed in Adobe Premier but want to upload to the likes of Flickr and YouTube.
Omar has a great post that I just used to do this.
Just in case his post ever goes away I'll paste in the line I used here
cscript.exe wmcmd.vbs -loadprofile Canon.prx -input "D:\input" -output "D:\output"
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Why is DotNetNuke better than Kentico CMS? Reason #1, it's free! DNN is free and easy to configure, Kentico CMS costs $1500 for the enterprise license, and that cost is going up to $9999 on September 1st!
For more reasons why you should be using DotNetNuke check out www.dotnetnuke.com or read some of my DotNetNuke Tips.
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One easy and useful thing you can do for your DotNetNuke modules is to validate them against W3C standards. I just spent the past 45 minutes (when I should have been sleeping) going through and validating the next release of our Engage: Publish module against http://validator.w3.org/
In most cases this is a very simple that you can do to help your customers by providing them validated code that will be browser and SEO friendly. The DotNetNuke Core team has set a mandate that all DNN modules submitted to be released after a certain date (I believe 8/08) have to validate against XHTML Transitional 1.0, I would recommend that all other DotNetNuke developers follow this same standard to try to raise the bar of the modules that are out there on the market!
You can also conduct this same validation against your website as a whole. The process I was using to validate the Publish module was to run the validation against my personal website which is powered by DNN and Engage: Publish. I was able to track down a lot of issues within the validation quickly and make those changes. There are still other issues with the site, but right now none of those are in the Skin itself or the Publish Module.
You can find more DotNetNuke Tips that I've written here