Development Posts from Chris Hammond

Long ago when we started shipping jQuery resources with DotNetNuke we began offering a Host Setting which allowed you to use a HOSTED version of the jQuery resources. There are a number of benefits for using the hosted jQuery resources, of which I will mention some below, but there are also some potential disadvantages or risks to this as well.

Recently my Visual Studio 2012 RC installation quit working on my laptop, the whole install is less than two weeks old, but being that VS is currently a release candidate I figured that it probably is just buggy. The problem is I can’t get visual studio to load anymore, which leaves me without the ability to do any further enhancements to my SlidePresentation module.

Originally posted on ChrisHammond.com

One thing that was added in DotNetNuke 6 but hasn’t been covered in great detail is a method called dnnModal.show. Calling this method is fairly straight forward depending on your need, but before we get into how to call/use the method, let’s talk about what it does first.

If you are going to be attending DotNetNuke World this year (http://dnnworld.dotnetnuke.com) don’t forget that today is the last day to use the discount code 2011Attendee to get both the conference and training for $599. After today the price goes up! The conference runs October 10-12, 2012 in Orlando Florida.

Some people in the asp.net community love to hate on DotNetNuke (see Shaun's latest blog post comments), that’s fine, the rest of us are off having a good time with it and the community! Check out the trailer for DNNWorld 2012, coming up in Orlando Florida in October (you can register for DNN World at http://dnnworld.dotnetnuke.com).

In case you missed it, DotNetNuke 6.2 was released today, check out Will Morgenweck’s blog post for more details on the release.

It was About 8 or 9 months ago that I posted my first video using my Netduino powering a Tamiya Tracked Vehicle Chassis Kit. After that I actually did a little more work on the project, but I never posted any video or updates for the project itself.

If you are in the San Francisco Bay Area, or even feel like making a quick weekend tripI highly recommend checking out the Maker Faire this weekend in San Mateo, CA (www.makerfaire.com). I’ve posted a write up of some of my suggestions on what to bring to the Maker Faire over on my personal site, check that out if you are going to go.

We’re in full swing for planning and preparations for DNN World 2012 this October in Orlando Florida. Our call for speakers is open for a couple of more days (5/5 I believe).

Tomorrow morning I’ll be delivering one of our free DotNetNuke Explained web seminars, the 4th in our series of 6. This seminar is for Basic Module Development, in which I will show you how to quickly get up and running with custom module development for DotNetNuke.

In case you missed the announcement on 4/4, the guys and Secret Labs, along with other members of the Netduino Community have come out with a new platform called Netduino Go. Head on over www.netduino.com for the introduction forum post.

If you follow me on twitter (@christoc) or read my personal blog, facebook, or google+ you likely have seen that I am riding for 100 miles on a bicycle charity in June of this year. If you didn’t know that, check out the Philanthropy page on ChrisHammond.com.

Scott Willhite recently announced the following free webinar for open source developers interested in learning more about posting projects in the DotNetNuke Forge.

While spending a bit of time this weekend working on a new color scheme for ChrisHammond.com I came across the need to be able to add a hyperlink to an image (html IMG tag) using jquery. Why would I want to do that? Well, to be honest I didn’t want to go in and modify the “skin” on my DotNetNuke site, but I did want to create a link on the “HeaderGraphic” image in the skin. Originally that image didn’t link anywhere, now, as I am working on fundraising for the The LIVESTRONG Challenge Davis even on June 24, 2012, I wanted to link that graphic to my “Philanthropy” page.

So this is Part 7 of my CommunityServer to DotNetNuke blog series, unfortunately it is well over 7 months late, but better late than never I say.

Earlier this week DotNetNuke version 06.01.02 was released on DotNetNuke.com (5.6.5 was also released if you are still on DNN5). If you haven’t taken the time to upgrade your website yet, I would encourage you to do so, all of my websites are currently running 6.1.2.