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This post will be the first of what will be many posts with regards to application performance. After giving a number of presentations over the last 1-2 years, including one this evening in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area I've decided that some of these tips/tricks that I have with regards to improving application performance should really get put out here so people can find them and make the improvements to their applications. Going forward all of these posts will be categorized with at least the "Performance" category and then others that identify what systems are benefited by the changes. The subject of this post is Static Content Caching.
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Posted by Mitchel on Thursday, January 19, 2012
So like many developers I have been spending some time recently updating my client, commercial, and open-source modules to support the new DotNetNuke 6 Form Pattern from a design perspective, to make my modules better integrate into the system. Looking around when I was starting there is very little "true" documentation on this concept, and for me it was a bit cumbersome pulling everything together. I started with this Wiki Article and then ended up spending a lot of time digging/inspecting lots of other modules that had been upgraded. So in this post, I'm going to take a bit more of a 'code-centric" no-nonsense approach to what your form should really look like, I hope that this helps you.
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Posted by Mitchel on Monday, December 19, 2011
With all of the recent changes that have come to the DotNetNuke product in the past few years I have been seeing more and more situations where users have older installations that want to get to DNN 6.x to take advantage of the new features that are available with the latest version. I can't say as I blame them the newest features are great and a true benefit to all that use them, however, the road to getting there isn't always as peachy as it might seem, as you often find people with upgrades that fail horribly. This has been a common trend and some of the things that DotNetNuke Corporation has done really makes this process less error prone, but a bit portion of the "getting it right" upgrade process really falls in the hands of the site administrators that are going to be doing the upgrades. That is the focus on this blog post, how can we as site administrators identify potential risks and then mitigate/resolve the issues on our own?
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Posted by Mitchel on Friday, November 18, 2011
As most of you know I was at the DotNetNuke World 2011 event in Orlando Florida this past week, and I thought I would give a quick recap of my experience with the event and share how much different I felt this event was in comparison to the previous DotNetNuke Connections events. To help try and give proper justice to the topic, I'm going to break my review out in a few different categories to help make it a bit more understandable, and without further delay, here we go!
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Posted by Mitchel on Sunday, November 13, 2011
As I'm sure that you have seen in the last day or so DotNetNuke 6.1.0 was released. Overall, this release is a major improvement for DotNetNuke with enhancements to performance, support for mobile devices and other general upgrades. However, I've already been alerted to a major, slightly hidden change that I wanted to be sure to put out here as a warning.
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Posted by Mitchel on Wednesday, November 02, 2011
It seems that the past few months have just flown by and I haven't gotten as much time to blog here as I have wanted. I hope to start changing that here in the next few weeks as I have a large number of items that I'm looking to get out here, just trying to find the time to get it done. But with DotNetNuke world just a little over a week away I wanted to post a quick note here about the event.
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Posted by Mitchel on Monday, October 31, 2011
One of the aditions to DotNetNuke 5.x (not sure when/where) was the ability for DotNetNuke to provide a Canonical url in the meta information for your page. When this all works well, things are going perfectly. You can configure the site to use the Canonical url via the "Admin Settings" page and normally all works well, but I had a very "interesting" issue with a site recently and I thought I'd share incase anyone else had a similar issue.
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Posted by Mitchel on Wednesday, September 07, 2011
Now that DotNetNuke 6.x has been out for a while and with the recent release of DotNetNuke 6.0.1 while I was on vacation I thought I'd take the time to write a must requested blog post regarding my thoughts on the DotNetNuke 6.x platform and performance. Keep in mind, these points are my own personal opinion and should be considered that only, so without further delay.
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Posted by Mitchel on Sunday, September 04, 2011
In my earlier blog post I mentioned that one of my favorite features of the new DotNetNuke 6.0 release is the ability to download and automatically install purchased extensions from SnowCovered within the installation. In this posting I'll walk through the functionality as well as give my disclaimer and recommendation in regards to using this process.
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Posted by Mitchel on Thursday, July 21, 2011
As many of you might not have heard yet DotNetNuke version 06.00.00 was released last night. You can read all about it on the Announcing DotNetNuke 6.0 page from DotNetNuke. In this blog post I'll talk a little bit about what it this release means to you as a user in the community as well as share some insights and recommendations that I have to make the transition easier, and we will finish with information on a special offer from a known DotNetNuke Vendor.
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Posted by Mitchel on Thursday, July 21, 2011
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