The one thing I've always like working on and about this site, is the full text search engine and spider. Bascially it goes out and spiders all the major development blogs on the web, and then indexes them. The engine uses Lucene for it's index. Lucene is another open source project and it works really fast.

Currently the directory is indexed, and the rss feeds are underway. We're talking about a lot of content, but once it's done you'll be able to pull podcasts, and videos as they get posted to blogs, and of course the latest posts. 

DNN is a great portal application, but some of the provided modules are lacking. The weblog module is one of them (even though it has made some improvements in this last version). But, I have some problems with the blogging module... Read More »

You are invited to the April meeting of the C#/VB.Net Special Interest Group (see below).  To reserve your seat, please reply to this e-mail with 'RSVP" in the subject line.  Outlook users can use the enclosed attachment to set a reminder.  For more information, please visit www.ClevelandDotNet.info.

Topic: DotNetNuke, presented by Patrick Santry (Sogeti USA Corp.) DotNetNuke is a Versatile open source web application framework ideal for creating, deploying and managing interactive web, intranet and extranet sites.

Patrick Santry was an original core team member and on the first Board of Directors for the DotNetNuke project. He has also co-authored two books on DotNetNuke.In this session Patrick will introduce you to DotNetNuke, how to set up your development environment, and creating a module for your DotNetNuke portal.

Date: Tuesday, April 24, 2007, 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM  

Location: Berbee Information... Read More »

Are you ready for the next step in web development. Microsoft released Silverlight (still the beta release), but we're seeing some great examples of this technology. A serious contender to Flash (actually not even in the same class), but you can now work hand in hand with designers and put your code behind some really sharp looking applications. Controls can be rendered in vector format in either 2D and some simulated 3D (real 3D support is coming though). The idea is this plug-in is cross-browser and has a small install (about 1MB).

Be sure to check out the samples on the Silverlight site to see how XAML is really ready to go. Just think of the possibilities having a high fidelity interface and being able to put some AJAX and .NET code behind it all.

http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/

 For the forth year I have been awarded the Microsoft MVP Award in ASP/ASP.NET. Kind of weird that they still mention ASP. Anyway, thanks to everyone who visits the site, requests me to speak, and buys my books. Here's to another year promoting and focusing on Microsoft products.

Just dropping another reminder about the upcoming Code Camp in Pittsburgh, PA. Be sure to check it out.

Pittsburgh Code Camp: DotNetNuke Module, & Skinning Development

Saturday, April 14, 2007
Time Zone: (UTC -05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)     Description: Join Patrick Santry and a slew of other presentors at the Pittsburgh, PA CodeCamp. Patrick will be presenting on DotNetNuke development, covering skins, skin objects, and module development.

More: http://www.pghdotnet.org/CodeCamp/

I kind of took 2006 off of the speaking trail, only speaking at an event in Edinboro, PA, this year however I'm back at it again. I have two events lined up already. For some reason folks want me to come and speak about DotNetNuke (could be my two books on it, I dunno). So here is my schedule for the next month:

Pittsburgh Code Camp: DotNetNuke Module, & Skinning Development

Saturday, April 14, 2007 Time Zone: (UTC -05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)     Description: Join Patrick Santry and a slew of other presentors at the Pittsburgh, PA CodeCamp. Patrick will be presenting on DotNetNuke development, covering skins, skin objects, and module development.

More: http://www.pghdotnet.org/CodeCamp/

Department of Computer ScienceSennott SquareUniversity of PittsburghPittsburgh, PA 15260 

Cleveland C#/VB.NET SIG: Introducing DotNetNuke

Start Date/Time: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 6:30 PM  End Date/Time: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 8:30... Read More »

Looks like the DNN team posted an update to the Links Module. Here are the features listed in the update.

* Links can now be edited when the database owner is not set to dbo - Reported in Gemini LNK-3916* Extra resource names removed from Links.ascx.resx - Reported in Gemini LNK-3492* Removed unused images - Reported in Gemini LNK-780* FTP Links working - Reported in Gemini LNK-3689* Hydrator replaced with Custom Hydrator* 03.03.04.SqlDataProvider added. Modifies DeleteLink Store Procedure to take in ModuleId for security - LNK-4976* Fixed issue with Database Null values and the customer hydrator - Reported in Gemini LNK-4595* No wrap removed from HTML - Reported in Gemini LNK-4629* Caching issues with drop down list - Reported in Gemini LNK-3687* 03.03.06.SqlDataProvider added. Modifies DeleteLink Stored Procedure to correct issue introduced in 03.03.04.SqlDataProvider - LNK-4975More info...

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