Entries for February 2015

Recently I started a pull request for the dnn core. It is a replacement and enhancement to the profile imagehandler. The new imagehandler is based on an old Microsoft codeplex project and is enhanced by myself in the last years. See what it is all about and tell me your opinion if it should go to the core or not! Continue Reading »

I'm happy to announce that we are now accepting registrations for the next big thing in Europe: DNN-Connect 2015!

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If you're active in the DNN Community, it's hard to not know Brian Dukes.  He's an MVP, was a speaker at DNNCon 2014, helped organize a company-wide hackathon at Engage Software, contributed to DNN 7.4, and most recently joined us for the Februa... Continue Reading »

With DNN 7.4 coming out on our scheduled broadcast of this month’s DNN Hangout, it only made sense for us to switch things around and talk about the release.  There are several nuggets of goodness that the community will enjoy in 7.4.  We s... Continue Reading »

I have moved the sources of DNNEvents, DNNFAQ and DNNReports from CodePlex to GitHub. It should be much easier to submit bug fixes and enhancements via pull requests.

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For DNN 7.4 a few significant changes have been implemented that change the behaviour of authenticating with e-mail addresses. This blog post outlines those changes and helps those wanting to upgrade their existing sites. Continue Reading »

Everyone who has opened up the event log in DNN has undoubtedly been struck by the fact that there is a lot of information there. The event log is like a huge bin into which the platform and modules can drop anything they wish to log. To help you nav... Continue Reading »

Today I am happy to announce that DNN 7.4 has been released. Over the last 12 years I have been involved with well over 100 releases and for me 7.4 is near the top of the list of releases that I am most proud of. I am proud of this release because of the way the community rallied around the platform. The community played a huge role in implementing fixes and features. The community continuously reviewed code check-ins and provided timely feedback and fixes where necessary. Even as we approached the release and started locking down the code, the community moved forward with work on fixes and enhancements for 7.4.1 and 7.5. As of today, we already have a backlog of 40+ pull requests which will give us a good head-start on our next release.

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If I were to ask you who your favorite super hero was, who would you choose? Would you pick the Man of Steel, your friendly neighborhood Spider Man, or maybe the Dark Knight? Might you choose a group of heroes like the Fantastic Four, the Avengers or the Justice League? Some of you might pick a real life sports hero like Michael Jordan, Joe Montana or Pelé. Or maybe you would pick a great leader like Nelson Mandela, Mother Teresa or Lech Wałęsa. All of these superheroes, both real and imagined are known for their amazing skills and their willingness to serve others.

One of the aspects of working on an Open Source project is that I am surrounded every day by people who exhibit these same traits. I think of the many nights and weekends that DNN community members spend working to build and improve the DNN platform that we all know and love. These community members bring their many unique talents to bear, solving programming problems both big and small. For me, as a programmer, these people are some of my heroes.

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This is an interview I have recorded with Will Morgenweck, the VP of Product Management for DNN Corp. He was the founder of Active Modules which was acquired by DNN Corp. back in 2011. Back then, he had created very popular social modules including Active Forums and Active Social. Continue Reading »