Over the last few years I have been trying to keep a little bit better track of usage of the content here on MitchelSellers.com as well as just keeping track of other interactions that I have through User Groups, Open Source Projects, and the like. Each year around the end of the year I try to compile a few of these items, if not for everyone that is reading things here for myself to see how things progress year to year.
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Posted by Mitchel on Sunday, January 08, 2012
For those of you that are regular visitors to this site you most likely noticed a number of changes to the site over the past 24 hours, including a small amount of downtime. This was caused by changes surrounding the upgrade of this site to DotNetNuke version 6.1.2. Now, I have worked on a number of DotNetNuke upgrades over the years, and I lost count a few years back at about 300 upgrades. This site was by-far one of the hardest upgrades that I have ever completed and in this post I will share a bit around the growing pains that were experiences throughout the process.
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Posted by Mitchel on Friday, January 06, 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
One of the things that I have been finding that I do a lot recently is updating user security roles based on actions either taken by the users or actions that have been taken by others. Doing so is quite simple from a DotNetNuke API perspective but how do you go about actually forcing the role membership change right away? That is what I'll talk about in this post.
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Posted by Mitchel on Monday, November 07, 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
A while back I released a tool called Secure My Install that was designed to help people take existing DotNetNuke sites and change the way that they store passwords to use a more secure process. Many people have used that module successfully to convert their sites, however, I never took the time to share the few small steps that are needed to simply "secure" your site as soon as you set it up so that you can avoid all of the hassle in the beginning. In this post I'll walk through the simple process of changing your configuration to go from Encrypted Passwords to Hashed passwords and a bit of detail as to "why" you want to make the change.
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Posted by Mitchel on Friday, October 07, 2011
For those of you that follow me on Twitter you might have heard my recent comments around a DotNetNuke SQL Script that I had to run that would have an impact of between 6 and 9 million SQL statements being executed on a database. As part of this project I was focusing a lot on SQL Server performance, and getting the best overall bang for the buck with the query. Sadly, given what I was working with a Cursor was needed to ensure that I had the best, most stable solution. In this post I'll share a little about the process and the lesson learned with cursors.
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Posted by Mitchel on Friday, September 23, 2011
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