Development Posts from Chris Hammond

Just a quick reminder about the Denver Visual Studio User Group meeting 9/28, I will be presenting about DotNetNuke, basically providing an overview to the group. The meeting starts at 6pm, though there is food and other activity starting at 5pm. For more information check out http://www.denvervisualstudio.net/

So I was doing some testing of the DotNetNuke 5.1.2 release that came out last week, and ran into a little issue, with some investigation I found it wasn’t a DNN issue, but an issue with security on the operating system. Here’s the error message I found

So I spent the past four days in St. Louis, my home of fourteen years, well, it was my home of fourteen years, until about a month ago when we moved to Denver. I came to town to speak at the St. Louis Day of .Net event on 8/28-29.

That’s right, DotNetNuke Corporation just acquired SnowCovered, the leading marketplace for DNN Modules and Skins! Great news for the whole DNN Ecosystem!

So it's finally time to get this ball rolling. I've been in the Denver area for just over three weeks now, and am getting things moving with the goal of having the first official Denver DNN User Group meeting in October 2009. I'm currently looking for interested attendees, and also for anyone who might be interested in helping to manage things.

So my move has finally ended, my beautiful wife and I are settled into our new house in Parker Colorado (just outside of Denver), and now it’s time to get back into the swing of things!

The DotNetNuke Track at the St. Louis Day of DotNet (http://www.stlouisdayofdotnet.com) is getting even better. My fellow author, Patrick Renner is going to be presenting a session as well, entitled “maintaining design integrity in a content management system”.

So Windows 7 will be available to a lot of geekts on 8/6/2009

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So it’s official, Windows 7 has RTM, that means in short order it will be coming soon! I’m excited, I will get it installed on my Laptop first, then likely buy a new hard drive and put it on my desktop, using the old HD as a virtual PC until I get everything transferred over correctly.

(originally posted at http://www.dotnetnuke.com/Community/Blogs/tabid/825/EntryId/2291/DotNetNuke-Wiki-Module-Update.aspx)

So it’s been way too long, 6 months to be pretty exact, since we had a new release for Engage: Publish. Well last Thursday it finally came! We released Publish 5.4 on our website, though without announcement because of everything else we have had going on. Well here’s the announcement!

So it’s been a long time coming, but finally, today, there is a stable release of the next step in the evolution of DotNetNuke. Version 05.01.00 was released today on www.DotNetNuke.com 

So I meant to get this post put together yesterday, but was totally busy getting a number of other things done, so here it goes for today!

Back in January of this year I took a trip out to Connecticut and spent a week recording some of our DotNetNuke Training on DVD with none other than Carl Franklin of .NET Rocks fame. It was a fun week, Carl has an amazing studio going out there. What came of it is a two volume DVD collection.

So there's a lot going on in the DotNetNuke world this week.

So Tom and I finally recorded Show #6 of the DNNVoice Thursday evening. I didn’t get a chance to edit until this evening. Below is a copy/paste of the show notes from www.dnnvoice.com

Early last year we at Engage started putting together our training materials for DotNetNuke. We’ve been delivering DNN training for almost 5 years now, but had always done it customized for individual clients, starting in 2008 we began offering Classroom training here in St. Louis. We’ve had a good turnout of attendees for our classroom training, mostly from the United States, but a few from Canada. We’ve had a number of inquiries over the years about training outside of the states. Training has given me the opportunity to travel to far off places, which is definitely fun, but for some individuals and companies having one of our trainers fly to their office, or sending someone to St. Louis, Missouri for training is just too expensive.