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
• Eoghan O'Neill

It takes a smart group of people with talent, passion and dedication to develop open source software without financial reward – I am honored and grateful to have these guys in my team!

We will now take a short but needed break, as we ponder over the next release. which among other things will entail a complete re-write with the promise to make the Blog module ... Read More »

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:

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. Currently, the rewards for these contributions are simply the satisfaction of helping colleagues in the development community.

Obviusly I signed up in a jiffy and starting adding all the stuff that I have been doing for the community at-large, from founding the Capital DotNetNuke User Group, to leading the DotNet ... Read More »

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 ) and found that I won the April 2008 Community-Credit Award! (For more information what it is, go to www.community-credit.com).

Here is what they had to say:

Congratulations. You won 10th Prize in the April 2008 Contest. As you may know, a lot of people compete ... Read More »

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:

What: 
NoVa CodeCamp 2008.01 a free mini-conference created by and for the local .NET developer community.

When: 
May 17, 2008 from 9a - 6p (we'll provide pizza for lunch, other options nearby)

Where: 
Microsoft Offices in Reston, VA. (Directions)

Registration is limited t ... Read More »

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:

With a little google-ing around did find a solution, well, actually two.
Once solution involves running an update to some registry keys (which is what always works for me) and the second a re-registration of a DLL (you've gotta love COM).

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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.

The slides and code of my presentation from last Saturday's "Developing DotNetNuke Modules" presentation were posted on the NoVa Code Camp South website.

Thanks to everyone that attended the event, and my session (of course). I had a great time attending other great sessions as well as doing my own presentation.

For those of you who could not make it this time, but are still interested in learning more about DotNetNuke, I have volunteered to do the same presentation at the Reston Code Camp in May '08. None of the sessions have been confirmed yet, but I will let you all know if there will be room for another great DNN talk.

Alternatively, you can always join us at the Capital DotNetNuke User Group; We host a monthly meeting there as well. Chances are that I wi ... Read More »

For those of you who are in the Washington DC metro area and are interested in learning more on building DotNetNuke Modules, I will be presenting at NoVa CodeCamp South on Saturday, March 29th at the Strayer University Woodbridge Campus. 

NoVa CodeCamp is a free all-day developer event and has become an international trend where peer groups of all platforms, programming languages and disciplines band together to bring content to the community.

My presentation, Developing DotNetNuke Modules, is scheduled for Saturday from 1:00pm - 2:15.pm 

Registration is limited to 100 attendees and is filling up fast so please register today if you're interested!

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Recently I was invited by Scott Mendenhall, the organizer of the Web Content Mavens User Group, to be a panelist on DotNetNuke.

The meeting's topic is Open Source Web CMS. It is on Wednesday, February 27, 2008 at 7:00 PM at R.F.D. Washington, 810 7th St. NW, Washington , DC 20001. If you wish to attende you can sign up at the meetup site.

The discussion will be moderated by Scott Mendenhall and will feature the following panelists:

• Keith Casey from Casey Software on Drupal
• Antonio Chagoury from Inspector IT on DotNetNuke Read More »
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