Entries for December 2014

This is an interview I have recorded with David Smith, the president of Smith Consulting. They have created a very popular ecommerce solution for DNN called SmithCart which is already included within the "Evoq Preferred Products" list. Continue Reading »

For many of us, the holidays are a time for friends and family, celebration and thanksgiving.  During this festive season, we often take time to stop and reflect on the events of the year.  We think about the things we are thankful for. &nb... Continue Reading »

In the last five months, I have been focused on changing the DNN community culture to become much more collaborative in how we build and manage the DNN Platform. Part of the challenge was to create an environment that fostered community participation and that promoted community involvement in platform development. A key part of this effort has been to focus on scaling the Pull Request process so that community members felt empowered to submit code fixes and enhancements to the platform. We have removed many of the barriers in our processes so that now most pull requests are processed within days or hours of being submitted.

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LESSON 3: "LIVE A BALANCED LIFE.  LEARN SOME AND THINK SOME AND DRAW AND PAINT AND SING AND DANCE AND PLAY AND WORK EVERY DAY SOME." Learn Some DNN Events like DNNCon and DNNConnect are great places to learn about what’s coming for ... Continue Reading »

I had the great opportunity about a month ago to attend DNNCon in West Palm Beach.  And although I knew it before attending the conference, my understanding of our Community as being full of smart, inventive, dedicated, and passionate people was... Continue Reading »

WebApi is IMHO the most important part of ASP.net going forward. In this post I'll explain more about the client side of WebAPI and the helpers that make it easy and efficient to code with.

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User profile pages are a set of regular pages within a DNN installation, they need to be bundled together below the main profile page, i.e. the one page that is being set as the user profile page in DNN site settings. Part II of my series covers the setup of those profile pages. Continue Reading »

WebApi is IMHO the most important part of ASP.net going forward. In this post I'll explain more about the server side of WebAPI. 

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WebApi is the most important part of ASP.net going forward. Since most of the web-magic of the future will take place in the browser (AngularJS, etc.) the server will focus on delivering application parts and data. This is where WebAPI comes in. In the first set of posts I'll talk about the basics of WebApi and I'll start with a simple example. 

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As one of the more prominent producers of DNN video content, it seemed only logical that we should invite Aderson Oliveira of DNNHero to come and speak to us.  He instantly suggested that we speak about templates in DNN and how they can be used ... Continue Reading »