Inspired by another blog post, I'd like to share the steps, I am usually following when taking over responsibility for a website of a new client. Usually clients contact me due to issues with the site - either runtime issues, performance issues, upgr... Continue Reading »

Learn how to create customized search results that leverage DNN's lucene index data.  At last year's DNNCon, Ash Prasad presented a great session about the newly redesigned search engine in DNN 7.1 and above.  He discussed the search architecture, lucene concepts, and the new ModuleSearchBase class for allowing developers to inject data into the index.  This year, I want to take the next step of showing developers how to create custom search results that can query the lucene data in very specific ways to present the results exactly the way you, or your client, needs them. Continue Reading »

Have you just inherited a DNN site, but you're not familiar with DNN? If so, you're in the right place. In this blog entry I’m going to attempt to cover some key concepts to understand and some steps to take in the scenario that you’re not really familiar with DNN you have just inherited a DNN site. Continue Reading »

The login and signup page that your visitors will use to get access to secured content is a crucial page within your website. I call that page a VIP, a very important page, since on that page you can either let visitors easily gain access to your secured content or – when it comes worst - scare them away. Continue Reading »

I know someone who grew up in the circus. Wire walking circus! For me, working without a net involves closeness to the ground, but not necessarily without the potential for “things” happening. This year Aderson Oliveira, Paul Scarlett ... Continue Reading »

The Reactive Extensions is a utility library utilizing the iterator and observer design patterns in a way that is ideal for handling asynchronous and event based operations.

For those who attended my session on Using Reactive Extensions in DNN at DNN-CON 2014 this year some reference slides.

Continue Reading »

As most of you know, DNNCon 2014 took place on Friday, November 8 and Saturday, November 9 in West Palm Beach, Florida.  I had the opportunity to attend along with other DNN Corp. representatives Charles Nurse, Clint Patterson, Joe Brinkman, and... Continue Reading »

This is part 4 of my short series about JavaScript MVC Frameworks. It will help you learn all relevant fundamentals (like controllers, $scope and more) in 70 minutes.

Continue Reading »

One of the sessions I presented at DNNCon Palm Beach 2014 was greatly inspired by all of you.  During my years consulting and then into my time training large companies at DNN Corp, I kept getting a common question, “how do I do this with large/enter... Continue Reading »

I am pleased to announce that DNN Platform 7.3.4 has been released. The 7.3.4 release is a stabilization release. DNN 7.3.4 is a smaller maintenance release than normal and is focused on addressing the most serious platform issues. It is expected that this will be the final platform release prior to DNN 7.4.0 which is expected to be released in January 2015. Once again the community has provided a number of significant fixes for this release. I look forward to increasing this level of participation coming in future releases.

Continue Reading »