Chris Hammond

DotNetNuke Webinar for Open Source Developers 1/26

Chris Hammond — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:04:23 GMT

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...(read more)

Adding a hyperlink to an Image (IMG) with jQuery

Chris Hammond — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 07:44:08 GMT

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...(read more)

Part 7: CommunityServer to DotNetNuke handling URLs

Chris Hammond — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:00:25 GMT

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...(read more)

DotNetNuke Version 06.01.02 Released

Chris Hammond — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 07:33:26 GMT

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...(read more)

Movember 2011 Results for Team DotNetNuke

Chris Hammond — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 06:27:06 GMT

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...(read more)

Movember 2011 is almost upon us, join Team DotNetNuke

Chris Hammond — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 20:45:30 GMT

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...(read more)

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

Chris Hammond — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 05:06:00 GMT

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

Chris Hammond — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 06:12:09 GMT

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...(read more)

DotNetNuke World session schedule is up

Chris Hammond — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 20:57:54 GMT

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...(read more)

Netduino powered tracked vehicle, Part 1

Chris Hammond — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 06:18:22 GMT

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...(read more)

Two new releases for DotNetNuke 6

Chris Hammond — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 17:53:46 GMT

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...(read more)

Soldering the Maker Shield

Chris Hammond — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 06:42:07 GMT

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...(read more)

DotNetNuke 6 Videos

Chris Hammond — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 04:59:00 GMT

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...(read more)

DotNetNuke 6 Released, big thangs

Chris Hammond — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 05:54:00 GMT

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

Chris Hammond — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 18:35:45 GMT

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...(read more)