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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 ) Read More...
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So I’m a newbie when it comes to Windows Home Server but I’m quite seasoned when it comes to DotNetNuke, IIS, and that entire stack. I wanted to cover off a the topic of installing DotNetNuke onto your Windows Home Server. Windows Home Server is essentially Small Business Server, just tweaked for network attached storage (NAS). There are many other NAS solutions available, but I find this one superiour (at least for me) is the fact that it is built on top of the Microsoft solution. I know ASP.NET, I know IIS, I know .NET, etc.. When I first heard of this product I was pleasantly surprised. Here is a shot of my Acer Aspire Home Server H340 physical machine. Enough about me, on with the install! Throughout this installation...
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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 ) Read More...
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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 ) Read More...
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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 ) Read More...
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Today I’m very happy to announce that I have officially started my new position as a Director of Engineering at DotNetNuke (DNN) Corp . For those that have followed my career, you could have probably predicated that it was just a matter of time. I have unofficially been an “Evangelist” for DNN for years; I would jump at any chance for open and honest discussion on the merits, advantages and disadvantages of using it for any given situation. I have personally developed a countless number modules, skins, tools, etc.. for a variety of large and small scale solutions. I also use it for the Annual Vancouver TechFest and for a variety of small family and friend sites. I look forward to personally engaging with the DNN User Community and...
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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 ) Read More...
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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 ) Read More...
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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...( read more ) Read More...
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After struggling for quite a while and trying every suggestion in several blogs and forums I found that is was quite simple to solve a failed execution message. The interesting part is that everywhere you could see hints about identity. As you will see this is just part of the equation. I had a small DNN project where I needed to import some source file into SQL. Since Both SQL and IIS are in the same box, identity shouldn’t matter that much as long as the account running the website (Pool Identity in IIS 7) has enough permissions. And THAT is the other side of the equation. After assigning NetworkService to the SQL BulkAdmin role, the package ran fine. I am still trying to find out if there’s a smaller set of perms that can be applied, since...
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