Articles from June 2008
Well as I'm sure that many of you can notice I have completed the upgrade to this site. Tonights upgrades resulted in about an hour of downtime due to slow file transfer and network speeds. However, many improvements have been made. Please view the full post for details as well as the BIG Announcement!
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Posted by Mitchel on Monday, June 30, 2008
I wanted to take a quick moment to let everyone know that there will be a small amount of downtime this evening as I prepare to upgrade this site to the most current version of DotNetNuke. As part of the process I will be upgrading the site skin, friendly URL provider, and moving some content around. As long as all goes as planned, tomorrow morning you should notice a nice new looking mitchelsellers.com!
Shortly after the update of the site I will be making an announcement that I personally find to be major! So be sure to stay tuned for full information!
Posted by Mitchel on Monday, June 30, 2008
DotNetNuke 4.8.4 was released last week and was another security related release that patched a few security related items. 4.8.4 is so similar to 4.8.3 in installation and upgrade scenarios that I will NOT be updating my installation/upgrade guides to handle this specific variant.
If you are looking to upgrade to or install 4.8.4 fresh please use the respective installation/upgrade guides for the 4.8.3 version as posted on this site. Below you will find links to each article! Look for entirely re-vamped guides for installation when DNN 5.0 is released later on this year, I will focus on a more streamlined approach to installation in hopes of making the process even easier.
Upgrading DNN from 4.6.2 to most current
Installing DotNetNuke 4.8.3 (and 4.8.4) Locally
Installing DotNetNuke 4.8.3 (and 4.8.4) on a Remote Host
Upgrading to DotNetNuke 4.8.3 (and 4.8.4) standard process
For those curious about the version of DotNetNuke that I recommend, I strongly encourage everyone to get to 4.8.4 if at all possible due to the security fixes.
Posted by Mitchel on Monday, June 16, 2008
As I know many people check this site on a regular basis to see how things are progressing on my various free contributions to the DNN community I thought I would post a quick "general update".
As many of you have already noticed I have been working the new website for my business IowaComputerGurus Inc. It has been a long process, but it is almost finished. All free modules that are currently available on this site will be migrated to the IowaComputerGurus site and will NOT require login for download. This change is being completed to more closely identify the free offerings as contributions by my business and not myself as they are worked on when the business does not have any current paid income.
I have also recently spent a bit of time solifiying a few of the free modules including Expandable Text/HTML and the Guestbook to make them as usable as possible. WIth the release of the Guestbook 3.1.6 I have completed the current upgrade process for the existing free modules. I am now turning my focus to the long awaited DNN Quiz module that I have been talking about for a while, I hope for a public first release here in the next few weeks. I will also be working to get new tutorials available via this site, and obviously the DNN Documents module 4.1.0 project is key for my duties as Team Lead for that project.
As always, I appreciate everyone taking to time to read this blog, use the content/modules available, and to provide me feedback. Also please remember, that donations do help keep some of these free items going, I want to take this time to thank each individual that has either donated time or money recently to the development of the resources available on this site.
Posted by Mitchel on Sunday, June 08, 2008
As some people may have already noticed I am slowly migrating the 'Software' downloads away from this site over to my new IowaComputerGurus Inc. company website.
All modules will continue to be maintained and will always remain free!
You may visit their new home at www.iowacomputergurus.com
Posted by Mitchel on Wednesday, June 04, 2008