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 »

Each month Will Strohl and I talk about the latest happenings in the DNN community. This month we are focusing on the new DNN 7.4.0 Platform release which is set to be released on February 4th. Joining us this month will be special guests Brian Dukes and Francesco Rivola.

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This is an interview I have recorded with Ian Sampson, the Technical Director and co-founder of Glanton Solutions. They are well-known on the DNN space for their knowledge and expertise on Active Directory integration with DNN and they have created a bundle of products around that, which is already part of the Evoq Preferred Products list. Continue Reading »

With thousands of active Community members and new ones joining every day, we’d like to use the Community blog to allow DNN users to get to know each other better.  And as we approach the release of DNN Platform 7.4, who better to learn mo... Continue Reading »

Over the last 6 months a quiet revolution has been occurring in the DNN Community. Last fall I asked the community to join me in charting a new course for how we build and maintain DNN Platform. Since that time community members have been joining in to help with the development and maintenance of the platform. They are also working to improve the content on the community site, creating original blogs and videos and otherwise just helping to educate and grow the community.

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SQL Profiler is a great tool to find out the SQLs being executed by your application. It comes very handy in troubleshooting customer issues. Continue Reading »

Whenever I see really features in a CMS I always ask myself: Is this something my customer is capable of using - without messing everything up? So I ask you: should the content-editor configure a carousel?

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Should a CMS have a feature because it can? I always ask myself: Is this something my customer is capable of using - without messing everything up? So I ask you: should the content-editor worry about images?

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