I have downloaded a lot of commercial DNN modules over the years and noticed many of them suffer from deficiencies such bloated screens with lots of text, confusing workflows, bugs, hard to discover options, many submodules, unclear UI divisions and ... Continue Reading »

DNN Platform 7.4.1 has been released. The release notes can be found here https://www.dnnsoftware.com/community-blog/cid/155228/dnn-platform-741-released This release resolves the following four security issues -full details can be read at https://w... Continue Reading »

There are many bad code-samples showing you how to use AngularJS - and following these will make work with AngularJS confusing and difficult. A typical mistake is to use $scope in your code - something that was a good idea 3 years ago but not any more. Let me tell you more... Continue Reading »

This is an interview I have recorded with Nigel Allan and Mark McAvoy, creators of the ecommerce module Cart Viper. Continue Reading »

Modern mobile devices can use web sites as if they were installed native Apps - and the distribution works through normal web servers, not through App-Stores. This opens many opportunities to create HTML based Mobile-Apps much cheaper and faster. These Apps work on all platforms and are easy to update when working with an awesome CMS like DNN/2sxc. Let me show you how to do this...

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This is a part of my series The New Features of 2sxc 7 and introduces you to using the Visual Query together with WebAPI. 

There are many ways to consume Query data - the most powerful way to give use it in JavaScript is to deliver it as JSON - which can be done easily in WebAPI.

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I am pleased to announce that DNN Platform 7.4.1 is available for download.  In DNN 7.4.1, we focused on improving platform performance and resolving many issues related to multi-language PortalSettings.  In addition, we have resolved a few security issues and included a new Security Analyzer.

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Google processes JavaScript. As Adam Audette put it "It should be noted that this type of functionality by Google explains how sites built using the AngularJS framework and the HTML5 History API (pushState) can be rendered and indexed by Google, ranking as well as conventional static HTML pages.". 

Why is this important? ASP.net WebForms is dead, and with Googles improvements ASP.net MVC may become unimportant. My 2cents on this...

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Last week we released 2sxc 7.1 which now includes permissions on Content-Types, Views and Queries. Thanks to this we were able to create full REST support, so that you can create, read, update, delete Content-Items though HTTP/JavaScript. 

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While migrating yourself and DNN to the next level, every developer has to learn new skills. Will it be JavaScript or MVC? We're (2sic/2sxc) strong believers in JS since it works in DNN-old and new - and also Umbraco, PHP etc. Now JavaScript got another huge boost - because Google indexes JS output! 

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