I had the pleasure of meeting Daniel Mettler in Italy this past June.  He is quite easily one of the most interesting people I have ever met.  Once we began broadcasting the DNN Hangout shows, I could not wait to schedule Daniel for an interview, and while we had to wait for a while, Daniel did not disappoint with his interview and presentation.  He even performed his demo on his live 2 Sexy Content website.  During his interview, we learned about how 2sic became a company, killing pigs, spear fishing – oh, and we spoke about DNN as well! 

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Microfinancing: help others with a small loan I enjoyed the DNNCon 2014 DNN conference in West Palm Beach last week: well organized, good food and company, interesting presentations and a lot of friends around. In short: a real DNN community buzz. B... Continue Reading »

This is part 3 of my short series about JavaScript MVC Frameworks. It will show you some examples of templates with MVC-Frameworks, which basically contain the HTML and placeholders where the data is added. 

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This is just a short blog which will show you the fastest way to install 2sxc (or any other module from the forge) and a specific App.

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This is part 2 of my short series about JavaScript MVC Frameworks. It will explain why of all the existing frameworks, you should really focus on AngularJS.

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This is part 1 of my short series about JavaScript MVC Frameworks. It will cover some basics, compare the most popular frameworks and provide some recommendations on how to get into this topic. In Part 1 we'll focus on what MVC is, how the JavaScript MVC relates to ASP.net MVC and why you should learn it ASAP.

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In this post which is part 5 of my mini-series Learning Razor with an RSS-App I want to get you hooked on the power of Razor (and 2sxc while we're at it :). I will show you how much easier it is to create new designs thanks to the open source, html-close nature of Razor.

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That's a wrap! This Module Development for Non-Developers, Skinners, and DNN Beginners is now complete. With this blog series finished I wanted to post a quick recap, thank some specific people for their help, and issue a challenge to blog series readers and the DNN Community in general.  Did you learn anything in this series? If so, then you need to read this post! 

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Throughout this series anytime we created a table or stored procedure in our database I always mentioned that we needed to update our SQLDataProvider files. To do that we went back and updated our SQL scripts to include the {objectqualifier} and {databaseowner} properties. These files and functionality are not a requirement for DNN module development, but keeping these files up to date allows us to leverage the portable nature of a DNN module. By "Portable" I mean distributing our modules to locations such as the DNN Store or DNN Forge. In this short blog entry we'll walk through installing our module into a different DNN instance.

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Our "Tasks" module is shaping up, but what if we don't want to show the completed tasks? What if we only want to show incomplete tasks? In order to limit or filter the view we will add in what's referred to as a "module setting". Module settings can control any feature that you like. In our case in this tutorial series we will give the admin user the ability to set whether or not "completed" tasks will show in the list of tasks.

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