Windows Hosting Performance & Scalability
As many of you know, the next major release of DotNetNuke ( 4.4.0 ) is focused entirely on performance and scalability improvements. However, in order to accurately identify the areas of DotNetNuke which needed to be tuned or optimized, it was first necessary to have a solid understanding of how II......
Windows Hosting Performance & Scalability
As many of you know, the next major release of DotNetNuke ( 4.4.0 ) is focused entirely on performance and scalability improvements. However, in order to accurately identify the areas of DotNetNuke which needed to be tuned or optimized, it was first necessary to have a solid understanding of how II......
DotNetNuke 3.3.6 / 4.3.6 Release
DotNetNuke 3.3.6 / 4.3.6 was released earlier today. Although this was mainly a stabilization release, there are a number of key concepts which I think deserve a more detailed explanation.
Over the past couple years, one of the common complaints we have heard from the community is that we sometime......
DotNetNuke 3.3.6 / 4.3.6 Release
DotNetNuke 3.3.6 / 4.3.6 was released earlier today. Although this was mainly a stabilization release, there are a number of key concepts which I think deserve a more detailed explanation.
Over the past couple years, one of the common complaints we have heard from the community is that we sometime......
Tyler Butler... SharePoint Style!
Tyler Butler isn't a mythical enigma created by The Narrator and played by Brad Pitt in Fight Club. He's a program manager on the Web Content Management team. These are the guys who are bringing all the CMS stuff into SharePoint and making it an ECM that plays well with in our 2007 ShareP......
DotNetNuke Wiki Module Announcement
The Core Wiki Project team is proud to announce the next step in the Wiki project. We will be converting the KTomics Wiki module to be the DotNetNuke Wiki Project.
What does this mean? Well be taking the appropriate steps to convert the code from the Ktomics Wiki and getting it into the format ......
Melbourne .Net User Group Meeting 31st October
I will be Speaking at the Melbourne .Net User Group on 31st October. Here's the announcement.
Philip Beadle, Senior Consultant for Readify and foundation member of the DotNetNuke (DNN) Core Team:
Enterprise Development of DotNetNuke Modules
Part 1 (31st october)
How to setup your developm......
My new job at Readify
After a pleasant break from full time work I have now taken a part time position with Readify who are a technical readiness firm located in Australia. I am working in the marketing department whch is something new - trying to flower up my technical prose! I will also be learning the latest version......
Testing the DNN TestCase module
I have been given the task of testing a Test Case module for DotNetNuke. This module has been developed by S. Shawn Mehaffie and Charles Nurses son (sorry I don't know your name!). The module enables Quality Assurance Administrators to set up versions and categories of a module for testing, Script ......
Converting the DotNetNuke® Survey module to use the DAL+ (in VB and C#)
The DAL vs. The DAL+
Using the normal DotNetNuke Data Access Layer (DAL) design, we would create a database provider class (Concrete Provider) that communicated with the database and overrode methods in an abstract class (Abstract Data Provider). The abstract class sits between the concrete......
I am speaking at the next Melbourne .Net User Group Meeting on the 31st October
Philip Beadle, Senior Consultant for Readify and foundation member of the DotNetNuke (DNN) Core Team:
Enterprise Development of DotNetNuke Modules
Part 1 (31st October)
How to setup your development environment
Developing DNN modules as Web Application Projects
Part 2 (November)
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Preparing to launch Help Module Version 3.00.00 - an overview of this version
I have just finished testing the latest Help module version 3.00.00. Help 3.00.00 is almost identical in functionality from a user's perspective, however it has been converted to Web Application Project (WAP), ASP.NET 2.0, and DNN 4+. This means Help 3+ will not work on DNN 1+, 2+, or 3+.
Thanks t......
At Tulsa Tech Fest
I post this message sitting in NH250 at OSU Tulsa. I'll be giving my presentation on the DotNetNuke Wiki project in about 20 minutes.
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Back from Nashville and more DotNetNuke Training
I got back from Nashville this evening. I took a flight down there Monday night to provide a couple of days of DotNetNuke training to one of our new clients down there. Overall it was a great trip. The client is great, staff was a blast, we had fun, and hopefully they learned a bit too! T......
Want to build a custom Membership Provider in DotNetNuke?
If you need to build yourself a membership provider in DotNetNuke, to perhaps link up to an external membership store, check out this article from one of my Co-workers.http://www.engagesoftware.net/Blog/tabid/297/EntryID/41/Default.aspx
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What's your Vista Windows Experience Index score?
Just over a week and a half ago I installed Windows Vista Ultimate RC1 on the newest of my desktop machines. Overall it's been a pleasurable experience, unlike some of the other DotNetNuke core team members have had! So far Vista has worked out well with me for VS 2005, I even got a r......
DotNetNuke Yin and Yang
We had our third annual DotNetNuke Board of Directors meeting last week in Seattle. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss the current challenges we are facing with the project as well as the strategic direction moving forward. In past years, the meeting was almost entirely dominated by technica......
DotNetNuke Yin and Yang
We had our third annual DotNetNuke Board of Directors meeting last week in Seattle. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss the current challenges we are facing with the project as well as the strategic direction moving forward. In past years, the meeting was almost entirely dominated by technica......
Packt Open Source Content Management System Award
Last week Packt Publishing announced an Open Source Content Management System contest. The contest is designed to encourage, support, recognize and reward Open Source Content Management Systems and offers a top prize of US$5000 to the winning project, second prize $3000, and third prize $2000.
Th......
Packt Open Source Content Management System Award
Last week Packt Publishing announced an Open Source Content Management System contest. The contest is designed to encourage, support, recognize and reward Open Source Content Management Systems and offers a top prize of US$5000 to the winning project, second prize $3000, and third prize $2000.
Th......
ROBOTS!
So there have been lots of references in recent weeks to the "dogfooding" we have been doing on the dotnetnuke.com site. Running in production introduces a variety of stimuli which can not be accurately simulated in development. For the benefit of the community ( many of whom will be able to relate......
ROBOTS!
So there have been lots of references in recent weeks to the "dogfooding" we have been doing on the dotnetnuke.com site. Running in production introduces a variety of stimuli which can not be accurately simulated in development. For the benefit of the community ( many of whom will be able to relate......
Feature Matrix Showdown
As an Open Source project, one of the things we tend to ignore are the marketing activities which consume 50%+ of the time spent at traditional software product companies. This is largely because Open Source tends to focus more on solutions than hype, but it does lead to problems - especially when ......
Feature Matrix Showdown
As an Open Source project, one of the things we tend to ignore are the marketing activities which consume 50%+ of the time spent at traditional software product companies. This is largely because Open Source tends to focus more on solutions than hype, but it does lead to problems - especially when ......
Professional DotNetNuke 4
We recently received notification from WROX Press that the Professional DotNetNuke 4 book will ship in mid-July. This book was once again a group effort by various members of the DotNetNuke Core Team. I was lucky enough to be able to expand Chapter 1 by about 30 additional pages, providing insight ......
Professional DotNetNuke 4
We recently received notification from WROX Press that the Professional DotNetNuke 4 book will ship in mid-July. This book was once again a group effort by various members of the DotNetNuke Core Team. I was lucky enough to be able to expand Chapter 1 by about 30 additional pages, providing insight ......
Aggregated Forums
One of my favorite new features in DNN 4.3 is located in the DNN Forums. Last year we launched the DNN Projects initiative where we supply infrastructure to developers who are developing open source modules for the DNN platform. One aspect of the infrastructure was a project home page for each proj......
Aggregated Forums
One of my favorite new features in DNN 4.3 is located in the DNN Forums. Last year we launched the DNN Projects initiative where we supply infrastructure to developers who are developing open source modules for the DNN platform. One aspect of the infrastructure was a project home page for each proj......
Enterprise Open Source Conference Summary
So I spent some time last week at the Enterprise Open Source conference in New York City. It was a high profile event which attracted some of the largest, most successful open source projects in the world ( JBOSS, Eclipse, SugarCRM, etc... ). I found the conference very interesting as it had a coup......
Enterprise Open Source Conference Summary
So I spent some time last week at the Enterprise Open Source conference in New York City. It was a high profile event which attracted some of the largest, most successful open source projects in the world ( JBOSS, Eclipse, SugarCRM, etc... ). I found the conference very interesting as it had a coup......
DotNetNuke 4.3 Starter Kit and Item Templates
In the Visual Studio 2005 / ASP.NET 2.0 release back in November, Microsoft put a lot of focus on making the technology more accessible to the general developer community. A key deliverable in this strategy is the release of an entire suite of FREE "Express" tools. Included in the "Express" line is......
DotNetNuke 4.3 Starter Kit and Item Templates
In the Visual Studio 2005 / ASP.NET 2.0 release back in November, Microsoft put a lot of focus on making the technology more accessible to the general developer community. A key deliverable in this strategy is the release of an entire suite of FREE "Express" tools. Included in the "Express" line is......
Module Performance Enhancements
I often hear comments or questions regarding the performance of DotNetNuke. And although we constantly focus on optimizing the performance of the core framework, it is often the Modules which have the greatest impact on performance. Since many of the DNN modules were inherited from the IBuySpy Port......
Module Performance Enhancements
I often hear comments or questions regarding the performance of DotNetNuke. And although we constantly focus on optimizing the performance of the core framework, it is often the Modules which have the greatest impact on performance. Since many of the DNN modules were inherited from the IBuySpy Port......
Web Application Projects
Michael Washington blogged about this subject earlier in the week and I would like to provide some more detail on how Web Application Projects will impact DotNetNuke.
Way back in September 2005, we had a variety of meetings with Microsoft to discuss the complications of migrating DotNetNuke from A......
Web Application Projects
Michael Washington blogged about this subject earlier in the week and I would like to provide some more detail on how Web Application Projects will impact DotNetNuke.
Way back in September 2005, we had a variety of meetings with Microsoft to discuss the complications of migrating DotNetNuke from A......
Software Development Conference 2006
I spent some time last week in the Netherlands at the Software Development Conference 2006. This event was hosted by the Software Development Network and featured 10 different tracks with 10 sessions in each track. The SDN has long been successful in attracting world class speakers to their confere......
Software Development Conference 2006
I spent some time last week in the Netherlands at the Software Development Conference 2006. This event was hosted by the Software Development Network and featured 10 different tracks with 10 sessions in each track. The SDN has long been successful in attracting world class speakers to their confere......
Skinning Enhancements
I recently had the opportunity to introduce some new designers to the DotNetNuke web application framework. In the process of describing to them the benefits of our flexible skinning architecture, I suddenly realized a limitation to the current model which I had never considered before.
One of th......
Skinning Enhancements
I recently had the opportunity to introduce some new designers to the DotNetNuke web application framework. In the process of describing to them the benefits of our flexible skinning architecture, I suddenly realized a limitation to the current model which I had never considered before.
One of th......
.NET Application Foundation?.......
Stefan Demetz wants Microsoft to create an Apache Foundation like organization for .NET developers. Here are a few observations (and my personal opinion) regarding the .NET community:
Personal opinion: Microsoft should be a supporter and active participant in the .NET community. Microsoft s......