Development Posts from Chris Hammond

We're sitting here at Scott Guthrie's keynote this morning as he starts to discuss Visual Studio 2008 and development on the platform. Scott reiterated the announcement from last night that Visual Studio 2008 will be released later this month, available to MSDN subscribers and they will also be sending out copies to the attendees of DevConnections.

Well it's Sunday the 4th of November, my wife's birthday. Where are we spending it? In Las Vegas! The DotNetNuke Conference, OpenForce07 starts on Tuesday here at the Mandalay Bay so we came out to Vegas a few days early. Last night we went to see KA at the MGM, it was awesome. Not quite as good as La Reve that we saw at the Wynn two years ago, but still a great show.

Scott has posted an excellent read on machine performance and development over on his blog. When I get back from OpenForce07 I'm going to be looking at upgrading my home machine and will definitely take his notes into consideration as I build/buy whatever it is I decide to get.

In our Engage: Publish module we load quite a few different user controls depending on who you are, and what you have access to.

This is actually a very simple trick to do inside of your modules, though you might need to setup an option to allow this to be turned on or off depending on what the site administrator wants the page title to be.

The other day I was looking for a Cosmetic Dentist in Atlanta, without any luck though!

DotNetNuke 4.6.2 was released today! You can get it from www.dotnetnuke.com

We've been working on Publish for the past few months squashing bugs and adding some very cool new features including improved administration interfaces, new display options, better performance and many more!

DotNetNuke 4.6.0 released today, just in time for OpenForce Europe!

Well it's been a busy summer for me and it looks like it isn't slowing down just yet. Earlier this month I spent a week in the Washington DC area conducting some advanced DotNetNuke Module Development Training for a new client. In just over a week I'll be in Topeka Kansas for the SCCA Solo Nationals, I'm definitely looking forward to getting away from computers for a week and just enjoying racing a car or two!

Engage Software has just launched another website. The new site is a portal for The Ticket Guys (www.theticketguys.com). It is built using the DotNetNuke portal framework, though we had to develop new modules and enhance existing modules to get all of the desired functionality on the site. So if you're looking for St. Louis Cardinals, St. Louis Rams, or Boston Red Sox tickets be sure to check The Ticket Guys.

DotNetNuke.com has launched a new Beta Testing program for the 4.6 release of DNN. If you've got an account on DotNetNuke.com head to this Beta Testing Program page, if you don't, head on over and register!

Here's a quick list of why you should go to the OpenForce07 conference in Las Vegas in November 2007! Feel free to copy the list and create your own.

I will not buy an IPhone! I don't care how many people in my office buy one. I will not IPhone, even though my blackjack sucks lately and drops calls like a Yankees outfielder.

Well, I was going to do a quick post about my trip, though I can't say who I was training I did have a good time up here in Chicago!

Nik made a post about a new program over on DotNetNuke.com today, DotNetNuke Careers. Currently there are a bunch of jobs from Robert Half listed, not to sound too cynical, but I hope it turns out to be something other than just a place for recruiting companies to post their billions of available positions. Personally, I'd much rather see single jobs available from individual companies, rather than recruiters looking to fill a million bland positions. I'm not looking, I love my work at Engage Software, but it is interesting to see who is hiring for cool positions and to see what DotNetNuke jobs are available.

Sometime last month I reinstalled Windows Vista. I put Vista on my machine (after removing it for XP in early spring) because I wanted to be able to edit HD video in Windows Movie Maker.

I'll readily admit, I've seen tons of Resharper posts over the years reading weblogs.asp.net, but i've honestly never payed attention to them.