Development Posts from Chris Hammond

In case you've been asleep for the past 8 hours, DotNetNuke 4.9.0 released today! You can find out more information about what this release contains over on Brinkman's blog post.

A few months ago I made a blog post about good DotNetNuke Hosting providers, I would like to continue that thought with an update.

So you're thinking about heading to OpenForce in Las Vegas in November (the DotNetNuke Conference), and you need an excuse to stay in Las Vegas an extra day? Well I have just the excuse for you! Engage Software (www.engagesoftware.com) (my employer) has partnered up with DotNetNuke Corporation (www.dotnetnukecorp.com) to offer a day of post conference training on Friday November 14th, 2008.

Like last year there are now Conference Badges available for both OpenForce 08 Conferences, Europe and Las Vegas. If you're attending and want to tell people that, check out the individual pages for each conference to get the badges. I am fortunate enough to be able to attend both conferences this year, after attending Las Vegas last year.

I must say a few things about the User Defined Table (UDT) module for DotNetNuke, I have seen it, but hardly ever used it. I had a site that was using it that I needed to make some changes to tonight, I've been putting off the changes because I was afraid of them.

Has your DotNetNuke site had a checkup lately? Do you know how big your database is? Do you know how big your database is? How many records are in your event log? site log? What about the last time it was backed up? Have you looked to see how many of your pages don't have Descriptions or Keywords defined?

Have you voted in the Packt Open Source CMS awards yet? If not head on over and be sure to vote for DotNetNuke! If you're really feeling generous you could vote for a Open Source CMS MVP as well, wink wink, nudge nudge!

We've had a few international DotNetNuke feeds submitted to dotnetnukeblogs, until we have the site setup to provide separate RSS feeds for different languages I've gone ahead and included these new feeds in the main feed (http://feeds.feedburner.com/DotnetnukeBlogs)

This will be a quick DotNetNuke Tip, but a worthwhile one nonetheless! I've seen this question asked tons of times, and even got an email from someone this weekend asking the very same thing.

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Mostly for my own purposes I'm making this blog post to keep track of what commands to use to send to the command line to batch encode files with Windows Media Encoder. I'm trying to do this now with AVI files I've processed in Adobe Premier but want to upload to the likes of Flickr and YouTube.

Why is DotNetNuke better than Kentico CMS? Reason #1, it's free! DNN is free and easy to configure, Kentico CMS costs $1500 for the enterprise license, and that cost is going up to $9999 on September 1st!

One easy and useful thing you can do for your DotNetNuke modules is to validate them against W3C standards. I just spent the past 45 minutes (when I should have been sleeping) going through and validating the next release of our Engage: Publish module against http://validator.w3.org/

Welcome back to my series of DotNetNuke Tips. To get the tips program started back off I'll start with one of the most commonly used, commonly abused, and misunderstood options within the DotNetNuke application. That being the option on the modules settings for "Display Module On All Pages". To find this setting you must go to the Settings from the Module Actions for the module in question.

So I think I came up with an idea for my first Windows Mobile application. A Windows Live Writer type application for my Windows Mobile phone. I have an AT&T tilt, and it sure would be nice to be able to blog from the road without having to load up my website in a browser and hope to the post goes through. Anyone developed such an app? I've not done any Mobile development yet, I tried to use XNA Studio the other night to do some development for my Zune but figured out it doesn't work in Vista 64 yet....

So I went to the St. Louis .Net user group meeting after work this evening, two months in a row now! It was definitely an interesting presentation from Denny Boynton. He was talking about Software + Services, rather than SaaS. It was a good talk, but the thing I got most out of it, was the desire to go develop games for my Zune!

Last month I received my first Community-Credit.com award. Today my prize showed up!

I checked out http://www.openforce08.com this morning and saw that the Las Vegas information is posted! OpenForce is the official DotNetNuke conference, now in its second year.