DotNetNuke Developer Chris Hammond

OpenForce08.com updated with North American info

2008-07-15T20:45:00Z

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...(read more)

July 2008 St. Louis DNN Users Group

2008-07-14T21:21:00Z

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...(read more)

OpenForce 08 Europe Speakers and Sessions posted

2008-07-11T04:52:00Z

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...(read more)

The best DNN blogs can be found at DotNetNukeBlogs.com, launch announcement!

2008-07-08T04:17:00Z

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...(read more)

DotNetNuke Wiki Module Release 04.01.00

2008-07-07T18:17:00Z

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...(read more)

I am now an INETA Speaker!

2008-07-02T05:36:00Z

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...(read more)

The power of the processor

2008-07-01T19:57:00Z

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...(read more)

Community-Credit.com Award

2008-07-01T17:52:00Z

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. 7th Prize: Inflatable Alien 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...(read more)

How to get a dynamic Copyright in your DotNetNuke Portal

2008-06-27T12:51:00Z

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...(read more)

Changes coming to DotNetNuke

2008-06-27T12:31:00Z

A few notable blog posts over on DotNetNuke.com this past week. 1. Cathal posted about a change for DNN 5 (Cambrian) that will remove the ability for administrators to upload skins to their portals, only host users will be able to do so. This has received mixed reactions from the community. I've been just north of Baltimore here in Maryland this week doing DNN training for a client and had a discussion with them early on about skin development, and stumbled across an idea that I figured could be...(read more)

DotNetNuke Info: The difference between Parent and Child portals

2008-06-24T01:32:00Z

So, in training classes I always get the question "What is the difference between parent and child portals?" Well, the Professional DotNetNuke 4 book defines the two pretty well, but me being a programmer and lazy, I wanted to come up with a more simple description. Here's what I've come up with: Parent portals require configuration in IIS, either though the configuration of a virtual directory, or a website. Child portals will create a directory in the root of your DNN website, placing a default...(read more)

DotNetNuke homepage won't load, keeps redirecting

2008-06-20T02:35:00Z

Alright, so I was setting up my new laptop this week and ran into a problem. It was a familiar problem, but I couldn't track it down. Forum posts didn't help, google didn't help (I kept finding my own damn blog as the number one result when searching) so I figured I would post the appropriate fix. That way when I search again and I find my own blog I will find the solution! I've now seen this problem twice, once in Windows 2003, and now in Windows Vista. DNN will install successfully, but after install...(read more)

OpenForce is coming, OpenForce is coming!

2008-06-18T17:15:00Z

So I've been saving this blog post for over a month, now that there is information out in the open I'm going to post it! OpenForce08 is coming! Being held at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas again this year, November 10th thru the 13th. The OpenForce08.com website is still getting updated but you can find out information about OpenForce08 by checking out the DevConnections website http://www.devconnections.com/openforce/ I'm proud to say that I have been selected to present two sessions at OpenForce...(read more)

DotNetNuke 4.8.4 Released

2008-06-11T22:27:00Z

To go along with my earlier post about DNN today, 4.8.4 has been released due to some minor security issues that were found after the 4.8.3 release shipped. You can get information about the security fixes via Cathal's blog post . Now, I'm off to upgrade some sites....(read more)

A new way to Upgrade DotNetNuke

2008-06-11T16:25:00Z

If you've ever had me as an instructor for a DotNetNuke class , or heard me present at a user group or conference you've likely heard me say that I always use the DotNetNuke Install package when performing upgrades on my DNN sites. I rarely use the Upgrade package, the main reason for this WAS that the upgrade package came without a web.config file being defined. The ease of the upgrade package was that you could just extract it directly over your existing site and things would upgrade, the problem...(read more)