The day has finally come! After many hours migrating (and well, re-writing) my website, I’m happy to announce the official RTM release of Excentrics World Server Controls v2.0! There are still a few known issues logged on my forums that didn’t make the cut, however this official release marks...

I wanted to focus on one of the primary benefits of Open Source as I see it: the talent an Open Source model draws to the application. But before I do, let me swap out a term here to avoid going down Definition Drive again. I’m going to use Rob Howard’s “Shared Source” description for Community Server...

Check out all of the DotNetNuke Daily Tips from Chris Hammond. DotNetNuke Daily Tip for 6/28/2006 If you've ever received the following error while trying to upload a DotNetNuke module here's a quick fix. ExceptionSystem.ObjectDisposedException: Cannot access a closed file. at System.IO.__Error.FileNotOpen...

Check out all of the DotNetNuke Daily Tips from Chris Hammond. DotNetNuke Daily Tip for 6/28/2006 If you've ever received the following error while trying to upload a DotNetNuke module here's a quick fix. ExceptionSystem.ObjectDisposedException: Cannot access a closed file. at System.IO.__Error.FileNotOpen...

Check out all of the DotNetNuke Daily Tips from Chris Hammond. DotNetNuke Daily Tip for 6/27/2006 This is a quick tip as I was out of town for a while and haven't had a chance to catch back up yet. Did you know with DotNetNuke 4.3 you can now edit content in place on your website? What's that you say...

Check out all of the DotNetNuke Daily Tips from Chris Hammond. DotNetNuke Daily Tip for 6/27/2006 This is a quick tip as I was out of town for a while and haven't had a chance to catch back up yet. Did you know with DotNetNuke 4.3 you can now edit content in place on your website? What's that you say...

Check out all of the DotNetNuke Daily Tips from Chris Hammond. DotNetNuke Daily Tip for 6/26/2006 During your development you may run across a time when you need to clear out the search tables for DotNetNuke's searching engine. Here's the SQL to do so. delete SearchItemWordPosition where SearchItemWordId...

Check out all of the DotNetNuke Daily Tips from Chris Hammond. DotNetNuke Daily Tip for 6/26/2006 During your development you may run across a time when you need to clear out the search tables for DotNetNuke's searching engine. Here's the SQL to do so. delete SearchItemWordPosition where SearchItemWordId...

Check out all of the DotNetNuke Daily Tips from Chris Hammond. DotNetNuke Daily Tip for 6/23/2006 Have you ever needed to send mail from one of your DotNetNuke modules? Here's the DotNetNuke method for sending off a message. public static System.String SendMail ( System.String MailFrom , System.String...

Time to vent. I’ve been trying to hire a couple of senior developers on a team that is primarily building a web based framework (i.e. software for developers). I have some minimal expectations for a senior developer that I don’t think are all that outrageous. For instance if you claim to be a web developer...