Sometimes, inspiration hits when you’re away from your desk. However, you don’t have to miss out on blogging about it! With the new DNN Blog Module (version 03.05.00) and it’s support for the metaweblog API, there are a variety of tools and technologies that make it easier to blog. One in particular is the ability to blog via email with a service like Blogmailr (www.blogmailr.com). Setting...

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OpenForce '08 has finally come to an end :-( and I am now back home in Northern Virginia (Washington DC area).

While at OpenForce, between the presentations, manning the DotNetNuke Community booth from time to time, and meeting a lot of great people, my work backlog begun to pile up.

While attending OpenForce '08 in Las Vegas this past week I received a very unexpected email from INETA, one that left me shocked and honored and humbled all the same time. A weird feeling to say the least.

In a nut-shell here is what they had to say:

I just wanted to drop you all a quick note to let you know that I have figured out a great way to stream live videos from OpenForce '08.

If you want to be notified of when the stream will be active, follow me on twitter: http://www.twitter.com/antoniochagoury

I will be tweeting when the shows begin. Once they begin you can view the shows here: http://www.cto20.com/OpenForceLIVE.aspx

I will be streaming my presentation today at 11:45 PST: Done In 60 Minutes: Building a Customer Membership Provider. Come on over an watch me live!

Last call! If you have not already registered, it's not too late!

Seriously, if you work with DotNetNuke, or are even planning to use it for your enterprise then you cannot miss this opportunity. All the people that make DotNetNuke happen are going to be available to educate you, and support you with every question or concern that you may have on the platform. Great...

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The latest release of DNN Blog, 03.05.00 includes MetaWebLog API support. This means that you can use any MetaWebLog capable client to post your entries directly to your blog without even going to the site itself. The most common clients that support MetaWebLog are MS Word, Windows Live Writer (WLW), MS OneNote and others. In this blog post I'll take you through the steps you need to take to setup Windows Live Writer.

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Recently I decided it was time to come up with a refreshed look from my blog. Since I use DotNetNuke to power my blog and my company's site, it meant that I had to build it in the form of a DotNetNuke Skin. Skins are not as simple to design as simple HTML pages, because, among many other things, one has to be knowledgeable enough with what DotNetNuke content tokens generate, and testing is not as simple as you would think.

I...

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For quite a while now, some folks in the DotNetNuke community have been experiencing a peculiar issue with localization on the Core DotNetNuke Blog module. While we worked on version 03.05.00 of the module, I ran into a ticket that I thought I had already fixed in a previous version release and marked it as fixed. Somehow, just like the villain...

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My company, Inspector IT, Inc. is proud to support OpenForce ‘08 and the DotNetNuke Corp by offering free product licenses.

The free licenses will be raffled off to OpenForce ‘08 attendees during an evening event (To be announced). 3 product license will be raffled off for DNN Site Map and 3 other for DNN Dock Menu.

Are you coming to OpenForce ‘08? If so, you may be one of the lucky 6 to win one of the following...

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Microsoft unveiled a brand new .net framework logo yesterday at the PDC '08 conference. Too bad, I just ordered 500 new business cards with the old logo on it!

I am not sure what urged them to refresh the logo, but I like what they ended up with.  

Here are 2 variations of the new logo:

Horizontal:

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I am currently working on a new skin for my Blog, as well as revisiting the overall user experience of this site. Since I Tweet quite a bit, I figured that displaying the list of my latest 5 Tweets would be a neat idea. A couple of thoughts came to mind, including writing a module that would consume the Twitter API to retrieve my tweets. After doing some researching around,...

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I was updating my professional profile on LinkedIn the other day, and I realized that there was a lot missing about what I do. In essence my profile contained a lot of the stuff I did for a living, but not was lacking all the work I do on volunteer basis. All the community contributions such as speaking, organizing, writing etc, was left out all together. I decided...

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This is the first in a series of blog posts filed under the "Trimming the DNN Fat" category. I hope to add as many of these "tips and tricks" as I discover them.

In this edition we'll take a look at how the Module's Settings are being stored, used, and how they end up orphaned and therefore unnecessarily cluttering your database and as a result, you application footprint (Because DNN caches this data).

A lot of modules in the  DotNetNuke...

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As I mentioned in an earlier blog post, I had a great time speaking at the RockNUG (Maryland .net User Group) this past Wednesday, October 8th, 2008.
RockNUG hosts their meetings at the Montgomery College Campus, and I have to admit, it felt really weird standing in front of a full classroom while "playing professor"; If you were in school with me you'd understand where I am coming from... trust me, I paid a couple of visit to the principle's office quite a few times. If only my teachers and professors could see me now, ha!

 Following my CodeCamp Presentation back in May of this year I was invited to do a repeat of my "DotNetNuke Module Development" talk for the Rockville (Maryland) .net User Group. Tomorrow night (10/8/2008) I will have the pleasure of spending the evening with .net and DotNetNuke enthusiast alike, and am privileged to share my knowledge on the topic. I am also happy to see that the RockNUG website is powered by DotNetNuke, as are many user group websites in the DC area.

Hello again everyone,

First, a big "thank you" to all those who were able to attend tonight, and to those of you who helped me get through the nuaces of Sharepoint.

As usual I enjoyed spending the evening with you and look forward to many more.

Click here to download the presentation material and feel free to post any questions you may have on the forums!

See you next month!

I will be doing a talk on Wednesday, September 17th, 2008 at the Capital DotNetNuke User Group and will be demonstrating how to enable SharePoint Forms Based Authentication against the DotNetNuke Membership store...

I am excited to join this great group of people in Las Vegas for this year OpenForce / DevConnections conference, and most of all honored for the opportunity to give the following talk.

Done in 60 minutes: Build a Custom Membership Provider

The Provider Model is a design pattern introduced in .net to provide a simple way to extend API functionality.  DotNetNuke uses this architecture to allow some of its core functionality...

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After much anticipation, hard work and dedication (from this extraordinary team of professionals) I am pleased to announce that we are "code-complete" and that the Blog module was submitted to the release tracker just moments ago.

I would also like to take a few moments to thank each and every team member without whom this would not have been such a memorable release:

Don Worthley Dario Rossa Rip Rowan Jim Bonnie...

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In a recent announcement this week, INETA outlined a new program designed to reward the very hard work of User Group community contributors.

User Group contributors are encouranged to participate and submit their contributions regularly on the INETA website.

Here is what INETA has to say about the awards programs:

Community Champions Award Once a quarter, INETA will recognize leading contributors as Community Champions....

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The last time I spoke at a Code Camp I became aware of Community-Credit.com. In a nutshell Community-Credit was founded by David Silverlight, a Microsoft MVP and an active member of the development community, as a way to reward fellow IT Professionals who have contributed toward the development community....

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I checked my email this morning, as usual, just as I am rolling out of bed (on my phone that is; no, I do not sleep with my laptop next to me.... I slide that underneath my bed )...

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Hello Everyone!

On May 17th, 2008, I will, once again, have the pleasure of speaking at the Northern VA Code Camp.  I will be doing a repeat session of "Developing DNN Modules 101" that I gave in March at the NoVa Code Camp South. If you were not able to join the session in March, be sure to join us in May at the Microsoft Technology Center in Reston, VA

Here is some additional information:

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Every once in a while, and especially when I build virtual machines from existing images, I run into a weird error when running SQL Server Management Studio:

Unable to cast COM object of type 'System.__ComObject' to interface type 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.OLE.Interop.IServiceProvider'. This operation failed because the QueryInterface call on the COM component for the interface with IID '{6D5140C1-7436-11CE-8034-00AA006009FA}' failed due to the...

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Ok, file this one under "just plain silly but fun nontheless" :-)
Starring, my wife Calli, my daugther Aurora (5), and my son John (6 months), and of course, yours truly.