Chris Hammond

DotNetNuke Webinar for Open Source Developers 1/26

2012-01-26T00:04:23Z

Scott Willhite recently announced the following free webinar for open source developers interested in learning more about posting projects in the DotNetNuke Forge. On Thursday, January 26 at noon PST, Chris Paterra and I will host a free Webinar: A Developers Introduction to the DotNetNuke Forge. Registration: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/589774770 The DotNetNuke Forge is the community repository for open source extensions to the DotNetNuke platform. Through the Forge your applications...(read more)

Adding a hyperlink to an Image (IMG) with jQuery

2012-01-22T07:44:08Z

While spending a bit of time this weekend working on a new color scheme for ChrisHammond.com I came across the need to be able to add a hyperlink to an image (html IMG tag) using jquery. Why would I want to do that? Well, to be honest I didn’t want to go in and modify the “skin” on my DotNetNuke site, but I did want to create a link on the “HeaderGraphic” image in the skin. Originally that image didn’t link anywhere, now, as I am working on fundraising for the The LIVESTRONG Challenge Davis even...(read more)

Part 7: CommunityServer to DotNetNuke handling URLs

2012-01-19T20:00:25Z

So this is Part 7 of my CommunityServer to DotNetNuke blog series, unfortunately it is well over 7 months late, but better late than never I say. This will be a quick blog post talking about “URLs” and how you can handle the old CommunityServer URLs and redirect them to the proper DotNetNuke URLs. Why would you do this? SEO, bookmarks and existing links. You want people that try to access the CS urls to be redirected properly to the appropriate DotNetNuke URL, be it for a forum post, blog post, or...(read more)

DotNetNuke Version 06.01.02 Released

2011-12-17T07:33:26Z

Earlier this week DotNetNuke version 06.01.02 was released on DotNetNuke.com (5.6.5 was also released if you are still on DNN5). If you haven’t taken the time to upgrade your website yet, I would encourage you to do so, all of my websites are currently running 6.1.2. You can typically upgrade to the latest release of DotNetNuke without having to perform upgrades to all previous versions, so for example, if you are on DotNetNuke 5.6.0, you can upgrade directly to 6.1.2, without having to go through...(read more)

Movember 2011 Results for Team DotNetNuke

2011-12-17T06:27:06Z

Well another Movember has come and gone, we are now 2+ weeks into December, and I am finally getting the time to get this blog post together. It has been a busy 6 weeks with DotNetNuke World, holidays here in the United States, and planning for 2012 here within the DotNetNuke Corporation. For those who don’t know what Movember is, it is the Month of November, replaced with Mustaches! Why? To raise awareness about the cancer’s that effect men. The goal is to raise awareness, and of course money, for...(read more)

Movember 2011 is almost upon us, join Team DotNetNuke

2011-10-25T20:45:30Z

Dear DotNetNuke Community, Movember is coming up, and I am getting the DotNetNuke Team going again this year. For those of you who weren’t with the company last year Movember is this. You start with a clean shaven face on November 1 st , and grow a mustache (not a beard, not a goatee) for the ENTIRE month, to raise awareness (and money) for cancers that effect men, primarily prostate cancer. Still not sure what I mean? Check out the video slide show of some of last year’s participants! Last year...(read more)

Using jQuery in your content to add some flare to your DotNetNuke website

2011-10-18T05:06:00Z

With all of the changes to DotNetNuke 6, a lot can be lost in the fact that you actually maintain the content of your website, and while the maintenance UI has changed, the content that you present is still up to you. A CMS can only do so much for displaying you content, if you want to do some fancy things, branch out of your standard HTML.

I recently wanted to do a couple of things for my car website (yes, I’m a car guy, so it is easy to use the website for examples).

I wanted to have a random image loaded in the top portion of the pages of the website, changing, or randomly loading, on each page load (not rotating live on the page).
I wanted to display a list of recent photos on the home page, and when you click on one of them I wanted them to open up in a light box.

I could have done this in any number of ways, but I chose to implement some simple jQuery for each, below I will show you how.

First things first, the website uses my free DotNetNuke skin, MultiFunction, available via Codeplex. I have some example documentation on how to customize the CSS for the skin to make your site unique, feel free to check out the Documentation page for examples.

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Using request filters in DotNetNuke to restrict website access

2011-10-11T06:12:09Z

Have you ever had the need to blog a range of IP Addresses from accessing your website? Or perhaps, setup a website that is only accessible to a specific range of IP Addresses? DotNetNuke Request Filters are a great tool for getting such functionality configured, all configurable within your browser, without needing access to the settings in IIS. Before configuring the request filters, I’ll throw out an example of why you might do this. If your website has a forum, or other community type interface...(read more)

DotNetNuke World session schedule is up

2011-10-05T20:57:54Z

The schedule for DotNetNuke World has been posted, be sure to check it out and get planning your agendas! Three days of DotNetNuke, tons of great people to talk to, learn from, and lots of stuff to be given away I am sure! See you in Florida! http://dotnetnukeworld.dotnetnuke.com/Schedule.aspx DotNetNuke World is November 9-11 in Orlando Florida, turn it into a family trip and visit some of the local attractions! You can find out more about the Conference at http://dotnetnukeworld.dotnetnuke.com...(read more)

Netduino powered tracked vehicle, Part 1

2011-09-15T06:18:22Z

Posted from my personal blog at ChrisHammond.com A couple of weeks ago I picked up this Tamiya Tracked Vehicle Chassis Kit with the intention of using it with my Netduino . I put it together, but didn’t get around to doing anything with the kit and the Netduino until tonight. Part of the reason I didn’t get it going was the fact that I didn’t have my Adafruit Motor Shield together, I managed to get that completed over the weekend (minus one solder I found that I had missed tonight). I wasn’t sure...(read more)

Two new releases for DotNetNuke 6

2011-08-25T17:53:46Z

If you didn’t hear the news, DotNetNuke 6.0.1 was released yesterday, check out Joe’s blog post for more details . On that note, I put out two new open source releases as well. I updated DNNSimpleArticle with a fix for DNN6 and made made a few other minor changes. As always, the module is released in C# and you can get the installable package, or the source package over on http://dnnsimplearticle.codeplex.com/ . If you want to see the module in action check out http://www.bicycletips.com/ I also...(read more)

Soldering the Maker Shield

2011-08-19T06:42:07Z

Back in May I picked up a variety of parts from the Maker Faire in San Mateo. One of those parts (2x actually) was the Maker Shield . I don’t think I’ve ever soldered this much on a circuit board before. I did plenty of soldering for the Project 240z back in the day, but it was all just joining wiring together for the Megasquirt and the fuel injection system. You can see some photos of the Maker Shield here. some of the soldering up close The bottom of the shield after soldering So...(read more)

DotNetNuke 6 Videos

2011-07-22T04:59:00Z

In case you didn’t hear, DotNetNuke 6 was released yesterday . In preparation for the release I went up to our Engineering office in Langley Canada (I work out of our San Mateo, California office) to sit down with some of our developers and have them do some demonstrations of some of the new features in DotNetNuke 6. These are all relatively short videos, with the goal of them being under 10 minutes, one or two is slightly longer than that. They are all free to watch! Here’s a listing of those videos...(read more)

DotNetNuke 6 Released, big thangs

2011-07-21T05:54:00Z

Big thangs baby, today is a big day in the world of .NET. DotNetNuke 6 has been released. I won’t go into all of the details, Joe Brinkman has done that with a blog post over on DotNetNuke.com, but I will cover some of the highlights.

First though, a little Too Short – Big Thangs (lyrics NSFW, and may be offensive, it is rap, get over it)

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Open DotNetNuke Position with MarketGraphics Group

2011-07-15T18:35:45Z

I received an email earlier this week from a company called the MarketGraphics Research Group. They are looking to fill an “Advanced Programmer and Analyst” position, I am assuming out of their Franklin Tennessee office. If you’re a DotNetNuke developer, or able to quickly get up and running on DotNetNuke (check out the DotNetNuke Training Subscription if you need to get up to speed) you should give the position a gander. I’ve uploaded a PDF with the job description that they provided, you can download...(read more)