DotNetNuke Developer Chris Hammond

OpenForce is Coming! OpenForce is Coming! (v2009)

2009-11-07T05:51:31Z

So really, it is just about here! I leave in just over 48 hours to head to Las Vegas for the third annual US OpenForce (DotNetNuke conference), once again being held at Mandalay Bay along with DevConnections. If the previous two years were any sort of indicators this year is promising to be a good time! I’m excited about heading out to Vegas again, and getting to see all my DotNetNuke brethren. It’s going to be another busy week, registration and such on Monday, a keynote on Monday night. Conference...(read more)

Can you run DotNetNuke on Oracle?

2009-10-29T04:50:28Z

A few days ago I was surfing through the forums on DotNetNuke.com and came across a post asking if you could run DotNetNuke on an Oracle database. In short, yes you can. But why would you? This blog post will talk about that, and some of the reasons why I would never recommend that you use DotNetNuke on Oracle. (No offense intended to anyone who provides Oracle support for DNN, this is simply my personal opinion) DotNetNuke is built with a provider model, what does that mean? It basically means that...(read more)

Silverlight blogging? and a Microsoft Store in SoCal?

2009-10-26T05:28:02Z

So I was talking to David Silverlight down in Miami Florida earlier this evening and he started asking me about blogging. I had to lead him towards the path of enlightenment ( Windows Live Writer ) as he was complaining that he completely lost the blog post he had just written. Once we got that squared away David got to posting . So there are a couple of announcements from David’s blog post . 1. David Silverlight has started a new blog, Silverlight on Silverlight If you are interested in learning...(read more)

DotNetNuke Documentation

2009-10-24T16:36:36Z

One of the biggest complaints about DotNetNuke , is, and always has been, the lack of documentation. I’ve been trying to help correct that problem for a while now. A year ago I started writing a book that was Published in June, DotNetNuke 5: A User’s Guide , I think it turned out to be a good resource for people looking to learn how to setup and use DNN to build a website. The book however can’t cover everything about DNN, and wasn’t intended too. There are a number of other books out there for DNN...(read more)

DotNetNuke 5.1.3 Released

2009-10-01T04:17:04Z

So DotNetNuke 5.1.3 was just released, I’ve already upgraded two of my sites without trouble and will be upgrading more of them here in a few minutes. This appears to be a simple stability release fixing some of the bugs in the previous release(s). Check out Joe’s post on the release as well You can get the latest version of DotNetNuke from www.dotnetnuke.com Here’s a quick overview of what’s changed/fixed ( from the Change Log ) Admin / Host Functions Bug DNN...(read more)

Denver DotNetNuke meetings starting up!

2009-09-28T04:42:33Z

Just a quick reminder about the Denver Visual Studio User Group meeting 9/28, I will be presenting about DotNetNuke, basically providing an overview to the group. The meeting starts at 6pm, though there is food and other activity starting at 5pm. For more information check out http://www.denvervisualstudio.net/ We also hope to have the first Denver DotNetNuke User Group meeting in October, hopefully at the presentation on 9/28 we'll have an announcement about when/where the first DNN meeting will...(read more)

DotNetNuke Upgrade error: Cannot register or retrieve components until ComponentFactory.Container is set

2009-09-08T13:04:12Z

So I was doing some testing of the DotNetNuke 5.1.2 release that came out last week, and ran into a little issue, with some investigation I found it wasn’t a DNN issue, but an issue with security on the operating system. Here’s the error message I found System.InvalidOperationException: Cannot register or retrieve components until ComponentFactory.Container is set At first I was like WTF is this, can’t say I have ever seen or heard of this error before. I started looking around and came across a...(read more)

St. Louis Day of .Net In Review, plus other travel info

2009-08-30T18:56:20Z

So I spent the past four days in St. Louis, my home of fourteen years, well, it was my home of fourteen years, until about a month ago when we moved to Denver . I came to town to speak at the St. Louis Day of .Net event on 8/28-29. I got into town on Wednesday and went over to the house we lived in to clean out a few things that we had left behind in the garage. Mainly a broken engine block for the 240z and some bookshelves. I had posted on craigslist the day before that I was giving any of this...(read more)

Holy Crap, DNN Corp just bought Snowcovered!

2009-08-27T16:18:58Z

That’s right, DotNetNuke Corporation just acquired SnowCovered, the leading marketplace for DNN Modules and Skins! Great news for the whole DNN Ecosystem! http://www.dotnetnuke.com/Community/Blogs/tabid/825/EntryId/2342/DotNetNuke-Corp-Acquires-Snowcovered-com.aspx Update: comments from Shaun Walker http://www.dotnetnuke.com/Community/Blogs/tabid/825/EntryId/2343/DotNetNuke-Corporation-Acquires-SnowCovered.aspx Update #2: Blog from Brice http://www.dotnetnuke.com/Community/Blogs/tabid/825/EntryId...(read more)

Denver DotNetNuke User Group, getting the ball rolling

2009-08-24T06:47:37Z

So it's finally time to get this ball rolling. I've been in the Denver area for just over three weeks now, and am getting things moving with the goal of having the first official Denver DNN User Group meeting in October 2009. I'm currently looking for interested attendees, and also for anyone who might be interested in helping to manage things. I've put together a small Denver DNN User Group site, it can be found at http://denver.dnnug.com/ , Please take a moment to register there to be sure you...(read more)

Upcoming DotNetNuke Speaking Engagements, St. Louis, and Denver

2009-08-18T22:46:00Z

So my move has finally ended, my beautiful wife and I are settled into our new house in Parker Colorado (just outside of Denver), and now it’s time to get back into the swing of things! To get started I’m going to be attending the Denver Visual Studio user group on 8/24/2009, where I’m hoping to meet up with some .NET community members, get to know some people, and scout out my target for next month. On 9/28 I’ll be giving a presentation at the Denver Visual Studio user group entitled “DotNetNuke...(read more)

DotNetNuke at the St. Louis Day of DotNet

2009-08-06T17:00:38Z

The DotNetNuke Track at the St. Louis Day of DotNet ( http://www.stlouisdayofdotnet.com ) is getting even better. My fellow author, Patrick Renner is going to be presenting a session as well, entitled “maintaining design integrity in a content management system”. If you’re interested in attending the Day of DotNet (it’s actually two days) the registration fee goes up to $125 tomorrow, it’s currently at $100, well worth the price of admission for two days of great topics. The event will be held out...(read more)

Windows 7 on 8/6/9

2009-07-25T20:51:00Z

So Windows 7 will be available to a lot of geekts on 8/6/2009 6-7-8-9? coincidence?...(read more)

DotNetNuke Sessions at the upcoming St. Louis Day of DotNet

2009-07-24T15:40:58Z

So if you have been under a rock lately, you might not have heard about the upcoming St. Louis Day of DotNet event at the end of August, the 28th and 29th. I’ve been working the past few weeks to try to get some DotNetNuke sessions lined up, and so far things are coming along nicely! We’ve got at least 4 sessions currently, and I believe we’ll have probably 8 total sessions if myself and Cuong Dang get a couple more submissions in there later today. There are also a couple of other major players...(read more)

Windows 7 is Coming, Windows 7 is Coming!

2009-07-22T21:55:32Z

So it’s official, Windows 7 has RTM , that means in short order it will be coming soon! I’m excited, I will get it installed on my Laptop first, then likely buy a new hard drive and put it on my desktop, using the old HD as a virtual PC until I get everything transferred over correctly. The timing should work out perfectly as well, I’m moving next week ( www.going2colorado.com ) and it should be available for the techies around August 6th, just enough time for me to get moved, unpacked, and ready...(read more)