Development Posts from Chris Hammond

I think I am finally going to change my Windows Live ID. I've always used autocrss@hotmail.com but honestly I have never used that email address, and I don't like it. So I am going to switch over to christoc@live.com. If you have me on your Live Messenger list go ahead and add that new address. I'll try to manually move over most of my active buddy lists as well.

Much kudos to Active Modules and those wacky guys from the DotNetNuke Corporation for the DNN Social event tonight for OpenForce attendees. If you didn’t get in because you weren’t registered for OF you missed out!

Open source is better because

So I just finished up my DNN presentation, “How to sell DNN, why your customers should be using it” we had a lot of great questions going on after the presentation. I’m looking forward to my session on Thursday.

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So we made the trek to Las Vegas today, the long grueling trek it is. We even adopted a kid today (more like a father ;), Scott Spradlin joined the Engage team on our flight and cab ride to the hotel!

If you'll be attending OpenForce in Las Vegas this week be sure to get your RSS Feed added to www.dotnetnukeblogs.com. I've spent some time this week setting up a separate feed for OpenForce specific blog posts. You can check it out on this URL http://www.dotnetnukeblogs.com/OpenForce.aspx 

With just 6 days until OpenForce starts in Las Vegas there is still time to get registered! This will be the ultimate DNN gathering for 2008.

So I don't know if any of you watch Chuck, I've been watching it since the first episode last season, it's a great geek comedy if I do say so myself.

I’m going to start this blog post off with a minor rant about purchasing DNN modules, and had intended to follow that up with a discussion on the evolution of the DotNetNuke ecosystem customer, but both topics have grown larger than initially planned so I will break them up into two separate posts. So here goes the ranting, followed by what I hope will be an informative blog post.

So there are only a couple of weeks left until Openforce 08 in Las Vegas. We (the guys from Engage) leave St. Louis two weeks from this coming Monday. We’re setting up a booth this year, #611, be sure to stop by and check it out.

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Ever needed an SMTP server to use for testing, but you really didn't care if the email actually went anywhere? If so, be sure to check out Neptune (http://donovanbrown.com/post/2008/10/20/Neptune.aspx)

Wow, I must say anyone not attending OpenForce here in The Netherlands this week is missing out (sorry Alex!). It has been a great conference, lots of great people to meet and ideas to discuss.

So we’re all sitting here in Shaun’s keynote, my photo was incorrect earlier when I posted that no one showed up

So Openforce08 Europe is under way. There are 26 or 27 of us sitting here in room 23 watching Stefan Cullmann talking about UDT 5(Forms & Lists) module. Nik Kalyani is next door presenting about Vista Gadgets with DNN. If you're not here you are missing out on some good topics! You should look into OpenForce in Las Vegas next month!

So Natalie and I are here at the conference hotel for the OpenForce Europe conference. We got here around 4pm, checked into our room, I did some work for my presentation and then we decided to walk around the hotel a little bit around 5pm. Well 6.5 hours later I made it back up to the hotel room. We made it to the bar in the hotel, and from there it was all downhill, or uphill depending on how you look at it. Dinner was from 7pm – 9pm, then we made our way to the bowling alley.