Entries for November 2008
It is amazing to think that OpenForce ended over two full weeks ago ever since returning home I have been swampped and haven't gotten around to my promised posting regarding the panel discussion that happened at the end of the session. Although a bit late I thought I would share the notes that I made from the panel discussion on the final day of OpenForce. The following items are not necessarily in any particular order, just the way they were scribbled into my notebook.
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Posted by Mitchel on Saturday, November 29, 2008
Over the past few weeks as anticipation builds towards the release of my book, Professional DotNetNuke Module Programming, there have been questions about the cover art displayed on Amazon and other locations. The currently published cover art does NOT include my picture, it includes the picture of the former book author. Below is the n...
Posted by Mitchel on Tuesday, November 25, 2008
One item that many people find unusual about my DotNetNuke installation guides is my insistance on NOT using the Database.mdf, dynamically attached database file for the creation of a DotNetNuke database. In my tutorials I have quickly dismissed the topic by noting that "issues" come up when trying to use a dynamically attached database and I...
Posted by Mitchel on Monday, November 24, 2008
I thought I would take a quick moment to post one final update regarding the progress on my Professional DotNetNuke Module Programming book. Tonight I have finished writing the two most complicated sections of the book, the Dedication and Acknowledgments. I can't believe how hard it was to write those two small pieces of the book.
The ...
Posted by Mitchel on Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Tom Kraak is doing a great job with Live Blogging over at Seablick.com, however, I thought it would be good to put a quick blog post up here about important items that I noted from both the Microsoft Keynote and the DotNetNuke keynotes that have happened this morning.
Microsoft Keynote
The morning started with a keynote address from Scott Guthrie...
Posted by Mitchel on Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Recently working with a client of mine we discovered a bug in DotNetNuke 4.9.0 that has been reported to the DotNetNuke corporation, but will not be resoled until another relese is completed. This bug affects the installation of ANY Authentication provider and is only an issue on DotNetNuke 4.9.0 installations. The bug will manifest its...
Posted by Mitchel on Thursday, November 06, 2008
With OpenForce North America just a little over 3 days away I can feel the excitement building Bill Walker today announced the OpenForce Social event, which I think is going to really be a fun event, especially being ONLY for OpenForce attendees. I know as of right now i have meetings scheduled with 5 people outside of the regular conference ...
Posted by Mitchel on Thursday, November 06, 2008
A while I provided an update and even asked for a bit of community input regarding the content to be included in my soon to be released book "Professional DotNetNuke 5 Module Programming". I have to first of all thank all members of the community that provided feedback and suggestions as to what you wanted to see covered in the book. I ...
Posted by Mitchel on Thursday, November 06, 2008
Finally getting the opportunity to get back to SQL Server 2005 development, and coming to the conclusion that NOT all of my projects have to support SQL Server 2000 I started looking all of those "fun" new items that we all really wanted. This article is going to go through a scenario that demonstrates how to use Common Table Expressions, Rank() and Partition to get results for a very common data scenario. We will present this information with an introduction to the problem, scripts to setup the problem in a test environment, and lastly the implementation, with a review/summary at the end.
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Posted by Mitchel on Saturday, November 01, 2008
After struggling with an issue when installing a custom authentication provider that no-one could seem to help with, I finally found the resolution. I had a <basepath>desktopmodules/myfolder</basepath> declaration inside the script area.....well DNN packages need the /'s to be \'s.
After asking around for almost 2 weeks, that was...
Posted by Mitchel on Saturday, November 01, 2008