Entries for August 2013

Am I Dreaming? Somebody pinch me…

While constantly searching out new clients and looking for full-time employment, I was typically receiving around 10-20 emails per day for job offers from every placement agency and headhunter within a 100 mile radius of San Francisco, and even recruiters calling me from Atlanta and beyond (India). I was used to my morning ritual of reviewing…. deleting… reviewing… deleting… reviewing… deleting… the multitude of poorly matched job offerings that were being sent regularly to fill up my inbox. One day, everything changed. I received a message, that at a glance appeared to be just another typical recruitment email from someone in the Silicon Valley… I was somewhat surprised to see the words “Career Opportunity at DotNetNuke” in the subject line. I was SURE it was just another recruiting agency soliciting their services, or asking me to submit my resume for a post I was either way under qualified for, or way over qualified for, very common at that time. Continue Reading »

7.1 saw the best Search ever in the DNN Platform; have a look into my previous blog to learn all about the new Search. This blog series is dedicated to provide more insight to Developers for easy Search integration. Continue Reading »

Last week we spent some time tracking down the cause of incidents reported at www.dnnsoftware.com regarding folks inability to login (read here). After narrowing the problem down to a recent Google Chrome update (to version 29.0.1547.57 m), it soon became apparent this was a browser detection issue… which led us to our partners at 51 Degrees.

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As written in February, DNN Platform and Amazon Web Services (AWS) can be a powerful combination. These days I updated the Amazon Machine Image (AMI) to DNN Platform 07.01.01 (ami-cd6a27a4).  So feel free to try DNN Platform on AWS. Continue Reading »

Searching for DNNDOX, the Courtship and the Company’s Culture

After moving on from the Social Services web agency, I was consulting for a few years at some rather interesting companies, with even more interesting people. I worked for Williams-Sonoma, The New York Times and the Food& Wine Magazine in a re-design and re-launch of each of their “Wine Club” websites. They were migrating all three web e-commerce sites to use MS Dynamics to administer the sites and their e-commerce presences. During the initial meetings to discuss client needs, their wish lists, site functionality and UI/UX, I had asked our management team and tech agency who would be doing the work why they weren’t going to be using something like DNN to build the sites, as it made more sense to me to not be forced to use different pieces of software to make one simple change on the site. Continue Reading »

I’m happy to announce a new release of the one and only “official” DNN Blog module. And it’s not just some new tweaks here, some bugfixes there. It’s a complete rewrite of this module. I know. That sounds crazy. And it is. But there were some good reasons to do this. In this blog post I’ll elaborate on those reasons and some of the highlights of the new module. Continue Reading »

Pre-DNN Kid — From Graphic Designer to Webmaster

Before I started working with the web, I was fortunate enough to decide at the perfect time to go into graphic design, advertising and marketing, during the first technology bubble in 1998. In those infamous years, San Francisco was buzzing with new ideas, new techniques, international clients and the promise of a new way of selling online – something called “E-Commerce”... Continue Reading »

It appears that the latest update to Google Chrome (Version 29.0.1547.57 m) doesn’t work / play well with some .Net websites. At first, we started investigating this as a potential DNN issue, but we soon found the problem was not limited to DNN...

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