Entries for July 2014

You may have noticed that we've begun to include profiles of DNN UserGroups and DNN Store Vendors in our Community and Store Blogs, and we'd also like to begin sharing information about our Community Members, who daily advance ... Continue Reading »

Recently, I faced a broken DNN installation wizard which looked like this: In the first moment it seemed, that the web server was very slow and it needed some time to load all JavaScript and CSS files, because the browser's loading indicator did... Continue Reading »

As an Open Source project, the community plays a special role in the development of the platform. Often some of the best feature ideas originate with a community member.  Community members also provide a lot of feedback on issues that were not caught by our QA team.  Recently, the project has been getting more and more code contributions which are also an important part of any Open Source project. Continue Reading »

Back in May, Joe Brinkman and I hosted a webinar titled "Developing On The DNN Platform" which was focused on providing guidance to developers on how to easily create modules and add custom functionality to your website. We promised that we would sha... Continue Reading »

DNNCon will be held on November 7th and 8th at Palm Beach Atlantic University in beautiful Palm Beach, Florida. DNNCon will include an afternoon of training on Friday followed by a full day of sessions on Saturday and of course the popular, DNN Aft... Continue Reading »

It is that time of year again... the nominations are now officially open for the annual CMS Critic Awards. In case you may have forgetten, DNN received multiple accolades from CMS Critic in 2013.  Evoq Social was recognized as a Critics Choice... Continue Reading »

Most of us have experienced that lesser visited DNN (or other ASP.Net) web sites need some time to start when browsing to the first page. The reason for this is the shut-down of the ASP.Net worker process that happens after no request to the Application Pool has been done for a given number of time - the default is 20 minutes. Beyond that, the worker process is shut down every 29 hours (1740 minutes) by default even when it is not idle. Continue Reading »

I'm happy to announce we have found a location for next year's DNN Connect conference! The world's most convivial DNN event is returning to France. But instead of the bustling capital, we'll gather in the countryside in the town of Millau (world famo... Continue Reading »

A long time has passed since our last posting about this topic and DNN (formally DotNetNuke) as well as AWS have updated their services. Not only the continuous improvements of the AWS Management Console (Web UI of Amazon Web Services) changed the look & feel of the IaaS market leader, but DNN has also had a new major Release with Version 7. Continue Reading »

As you probably already know, I love no-server-code Apps. They allow admins/web designers to extend their DNN without requiring host-permissions and without risking the system stability. It also allows them to modify the extension with very basic capabilities. When creating the ImageCompare App I ran into some common issues that you will have as well - and would like to share the lessons-learned here. Continue Reading »