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Entries for September 2003

XXL Meltdown

Based on the decisions from the Core Team chat, action was taken today to reclaim the DotNetNuke Forums as a communication tool dedicated only to the discussion of issues pertaining to the main development thread. This means that discussions related ... Continue Reading »

Sep 30

By: Shaun Walker

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Man in the Arena

I have one framed picture on the wall of my office - it is the "Man in the Arena" speech by Theodore Roosevelt - it is my guiding light so to speak when it comes to my professional life. Everytime I face adversity on a project I look up and read it a... Continue Reading »

Sep 29

By: Shaun Walker

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Open Source Philosophy

"Open source" means so many different things to different people. And since there is no concrete definition, everyone's interpretation is absolutely valid. From an "academic" perspective, "open source" can logically be translated to mean the source c... Continue Reading »

Sep 29

By: Shaun Walker

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DNN Chat

The Core Team held its first ever group chat on MSN tonight. Although somewhat chaotic to follow at times, many pertinent topics were discussed in regards to the project and team. In an open source project with so many distributed members communicati... Continue Reading »

Sep 27

By: Shaun Walker

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DAL - Alpha

After much anticipation the new Data Access Layer for DotNetNuke is now code complete. It allows the application to run on multiple data stores and includes implementations for SQL Server and Microsoft Access. You read more about the architecture her... Continue Reading »

Sep 23

By: Shaun Walker

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PDC - Birds of a Feather

I checked the PDC 2003 BOF site this weekend and guess what I saw? We have been approved as a Topic! And not only were we approved as a topic but we are far and away the top vote getter and have the highest score of any topic suggested thus far! So n... Continue Reading »

Sep 22

By: Shaun Walker

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Modules Documentation

For those of you who haven't noticed, Lorraine Young from Nexxus has added some great documentation to the Modules tab of the DotNetNuke.com site. There is now an example and a brief description of each core module type supported by DotNetNuke. This ... Continue Reading »

Sep 22

By: Shaun Walker

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CompareValidator - Final

Although the suggested solution indicated below would work well for English localized dates, it would not work for foreign localizations ( ie. month abbreviations in non-English languages ). A more generic solution would be to check for three alphabe... Continue Reading »

Sep 19

By: Shaun Walker

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CompareValidator Continued...

Well maybe there are not as many Regular Expression experts as I had imagined. I only received a single response to my earlier Blog on the CompareValidator.Aaron Robinson writes:var yearFirstExp = newRegExp("^\\s*((\\d{4})|(\\d{2}))([-./])(\\d{1,2})\... Continue Reading »

Sep 18

By: Shaun Walker

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CompareValidator Revealed

I have always had an issue with the CompareValidator control when it comes to date validation. Its main limitation is that it seems to force the end user into entering a specific date format which is not always obvious or logical. In the case of DotN... Continue Reading »

Sep 16

By: Shaun Walker

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Entries for September 2003

XXL Meltdown

Man in the Arena

Open Source Philosophy

DNN Chat

DAL - Alpha

PDC - Birds of a Feather

Modules Documentation

CompareValidator - Final

CompareValidator Continued...

CompareValidator Revealed

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