By Will on
12/30/2007
The DotNetNuke (DNN) CMS has a great Blog Module that allows you to have your very own blog on your web site. That's no secret. However, some people do not blog chronologically and/or update their blogs - in turn changing the publish date. Well, the current version doesn't allow you to change that date manually. Here is how you can....
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By Will on
12/29/2007
I haven't tried it yet, but I found a tool that is supposed to make the module creation process easier. This is thanks to a Blog by Jon Henning.
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By Will on
12/29/2007
I recently had to update one of my DotNetNuke (DNN) sites from version 4.05.03 to 4.06.02. I chose to do this to take advantage of the new SSL support. However, upgrading for me was not as straight forward as it normally is.
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By Will on
12/28/2007
For those of you that are familiar with DotNetNuke (DNN), you know that although it is not a "slow" application, it has its moments. Also, ANY application can benefit from performance enhancements. I just sent a few to the DotNetNuke team.
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By Will on
12/24/2007
First of all, happy holidays to everyone that celebrates something this time of year. :) I have been hand-coding quite a few XML schema files (XSD) recently. Writing it is easy enough, but I just ran into what seemed like a very thing to write - that is until I actually begun to write it.
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By Will on
12/11/2007
I blogged earlier today on a new piece of software that I ran across on the DotNetNuke® DNN web site. It is called the "Basic Skin Creator", and its intent is to make the job of creating skins easier.
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By Will on
12/11/2007
Hahaha... Sorry, it is still quite amusing to me. I just finished scanning a really good article on the strengths and weaknesses of the Web Form model. I liked it so much that I wanted to "kick" the author through DotNetKicks, and I received this error... (Click the thumbnail to see a larger view of the screenshot.)
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By Will on
12/11/2007
If you're even a fraction as much of a fan of DotNetNuke (DNN) as I am, this news will certainly excite you... Michael Washington just blogged about software that he found that is tailored to aid folks in creating DotNetNuke skins!
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By Will on
12/7/2007
For some odd reason, the XPathDocument class does not support loading the object using a string. However, this seems to be an integral requirement for some applications where the XML is generated and parsed on-the-fly. Here's how to do that...
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By Will on
12/4/2007
Not that is matters at all, or even that anyone out there cares a whole lot, but I wanted to pat myself on the back for reaching 500 posts on the DNN Forums today at 10:22 AM (EST).
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By Will on
12/3/2007
The word, "green", has quickly become the most popular buzz word around politics, businesses, and water coolers. But just how green are folks? When I say folk this time, I am speaking of businesses. After all, businesses contribute more to the declining climate conditions than anyone.
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By Will on
11/30/2007
A recent blog post on the DotNetNuke web site prompted me to investigate in a bit more detail...
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By Will on
11/27/2007
Although we would never want it to happen, we occasionally need to update the Module Settings for all instances of a specific module throughout a DotNetNuke (DNN) portal. There are times when a DNN web site grows to be so large that there are modules and pages all over the place, and the prospect of updating every single instance of a module is just not realistic. That all changes with a simple SQL Query!
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By Will on
11/27/2007
Although for many of you, it may be very elementary as to how you would clear the cache in DotNetNuke (DNN), this is simply not the case for everyone out there. It is for this reason that I thought it would be a good idea to blog about it.
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By Will on
11/14/2007
There are times when you need to incorporate a client-side form on your web form, user control, or DNN module. As you probably already know, this will not work. By default, ASP.Net doesn't allow child forms anymore.
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By Will on
11/10/2007
Well, I just got back home from SQL Saturday in Heathrow, FL. It was a really great event! For it being the first one, it was well organized and had a great array of topics.
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By Will on
11/7/2007
User Groups often have a bad stigma of not being productive and just being a "geek" meeting. Well, this doesn't have to be true. Such organizations can often be very productive and conducive to an entire industry, and your career.
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By Will on
11/5/2007
A while back, the family and I had a wonderful day. Despite the scorching hot weather, we made the best of it and had a very inexpensive yet memorable time.
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By Will on
11/4/2007
I don't know about you, but I am an avid user of the Google Toolbar buttons, as well as the DotNetNuke web site. Well, if you use the DNN web site as much as I do, you either have the addresses in memory on your address bar, quick link or short cut buttons, bookmark links, etc. Well, I came up with another way...
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By Will on
10/26/2007
A while ago, I tested the popularity and name recognition of DotNetNuke against some of the other CMS products out there. Being a fan and loyal user/developer of DotNetNuke projects (not the Core projects), I was quite disappointed.
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By Will on
10/10/2007
I had an instance recently where the FCKeditor would not display in any browser. Instead, I was greeted with nothing in non-IE browsers, and in IE I was greeted with the unwanted "Internet Explorer cannot display this webpage" page.
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By Will on
10/6/2007
With all of the talk these days of going "green", and all of the supporting data flying around, there is no denying that we need to each begin doing something to help out ourselves and those we care about in the future...
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By Will on
9/17/2007
I recently had a project where the home page for a web site called for an image that loaded randomly each time the page is loaded. For example, the first time you viewed the home page, you might be looking at monkeys, the next time a llama, and so on.
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By Will on
8/27/2007
There are great many things that we realize we take for granted when hand-coding database updates. For instance, in the SQL Server Management Studio (or Enterprise Manager), we often right-click something and then let a wizard walk us through some steps and... POOF! Your database is updated!
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By Will on
8/22/2007
If you are anything like me, you always want to find the most efficient way to do something. For instance, you cannot restore a database without first stopping all of the processes that are currently running under the database. Here is where a neat little snippet might be useful to you!
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By Will on
8/21/2007
There is an obscure and seemingly untraceable error that may occur with the DotNetNuke (DNN) Core Forums Module. This error states, "User Settings is currently unavailable." I believe that I have nailed down how this happens and how to fix it!
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By Will on
8/17/2007
Can you picture Kathy Bates' character in 'The Waterboy' saying, "Look out, Bobby Boucher... Internet Explorer 7 is THE DEVIL!" I certainly can...
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By Will on
8/15/2007
Invariably, at some point you will have a control that needs to display a list of options as a checkbox list. In order for our application to be user-friendly, we will need to provide the ability for the end-user to Select All checkboxes with a single click, as well as uncheck all checkboxes. With a bit of client-side code, this is easily achieved.
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By Will on
8/13/2007
Well, some time ago I posted my theory about the plot line of the final Bourne movie. It seems that I was almost right. :) I just saw this wrap-up of the Bourne Trilogy this weekend. I will not review it because I do not have time, but here are my thoughts about my original theory.
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By Will on
8/13/2007
Have you ever worked with an application that had many different connection strings and databases? It is sometimes necessary to grab some information from those connection strings. I have run into such a situation recently. Here is how to grab the database name from the connection string.
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