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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 ) Read More...

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 ) Read More...

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 ) Read More...

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 ) Read More...

On our DotNetNuke module demo site , we have a little selector (pictured above) in the upper right hand corner that lets you pick how wide you would like the site to appear. This is based on a similar mechanism on the DNN site. Folks have been asking about it, so feel free to register on our site and grab it for yourself (for free). It is a DNN skin object and compatible with DNN 4.5.1 and up. This is something we've developed for internal use, so it may or may not work for every circumstance. The...( read more ) Read More...

Somehow I got myself into the speakers role for the .Net user group meeting here in St. Louis tonight! If you have nothing to do and want to learn about Web Application Project module development in DotNetNuke come on out to the meeting. More info available at www.stlnet.org...( read more ) Read More...

Engage Software is pleased to announce that Engage: Publish 5.1 has been released for download on www.engagemodules.com . For a complete list of enhancements and bug fixes for the 5.1 release of Publish you can visit the release notes . Engage: Publish 5.1 has a few bug fixes as well as a couple of major enhancements. One of the new enhancements is the ability to enable Article Comments to interact with the ActiveForums module from ActiveModules.com (currently supporting ActiveForums 3.7.8.27002...( read more ) Read More...

Earlier this year I was doing some work on a website of mine that runs on DNN, and has SSL enabled. I copied the database and file system, and set these up on my development machine, Vista Ultimate. I ran into a problem though, I couldn't actually get the site to load, I had all the usual configured properly: a) file permissions b) IIS virtual directory under classic app pool c) database setup and the web.config modified No matter what I did whenever I tried to access the site I would get an error...( read more ) Read More...

--better late than never-- Back in December I participated in a recording of the .NET Rocks! Show with Carl and Richard. The topic was a discussion panel on Open Source. Here is the url for the page: http://www.dotnetrocks.com/default.aspx?showNum=296 Show #296 | 12/6/2007 (77 minutes) Open Source Panel Discussion at DevTeach, Vancouver Carl and Richard host a panel discussion on open source software at the DevTeach developer conference in Vancouver, BC. Panelists: Rod Paddock, Shaun Walker, Rob Chartier, and Sara Ford. Read More...

Joe Brinkman posted the call for speakers for OpenForce 08. Check out his post , then get over to www.openforce08.com to submit your presentation topics (must be logged in to access the page)! I'll be submitting some of my own as well, I had a blast at OpenForce07 last year....( read more ) Read More...