The Mighty Blog

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I work for the DotNetNuke Corporation. I am a self-proclaimed DotNetNuke Evangelist, but I also use it daily. In the DNN world, I am a programmer, DBA, architect, business analyst, speaker, tutorial writer, administrator, and just overall a DNN junkie... Therefore, you may see a few posts here that are not DNN or .Net related, but for the most part it will be all DNN all day - every day! Every day is DotNetNuke day!
By Will on 1/28/2008
I was playing in the yard with the kids, and saw this fun opportunity for a shot.
By Will on 1/24/2008
We were at the supermarket and I was playing with my camera.
By Will on 1/24/2008
I received this error while installing a customized version of the DNN install package. Here is what happened...
By Will on 1/24/2008
Sometimes, you are experiencing an error on your DotNetNuke web site, but the error will not even let the page load, or the error load. Well, here is a way to find the offending error.
By Will on 1/23/2008
There is a beach on the west coast of Florida that we absolutely love to visit. Here is a shot of Kariann on one of our visits.
By Will on 1/23/2008
I see a question in the DotNetNuke® (DNN) forums a lot. It is often phrased something like "I deleted my login page. How can I login now?" Here is how you can get to your login page even when the Account Login module is not on the page, or the login page you specified in Site Settings is not accessible.
By Will on 1/22/2008
Here is a shot I took of Kohen right before we went to a Renaissance Faire.
By Will on 1/21/2008
One day, we bought some subs and had a day at the park...
By Will on 1/18/2008
There is a tower in Clermont, FL that used to overlook acres and acres of orange groves. However, these days the tree tops are now roof tops.
By Will on 1/16/2008
Disclaimer: Professional driver on a closed course. Do not try this at home.
By Will on 1/13/2008
No... This is not a proposed sequel to a failed movie. This is a picture where I caught some snakes in an unexpected place.
By Will on 1/12/2008
This is one of those moments caught at just the right time. Hayden was getting ready to slide down a water slide, when I snatched a moment in time from him...
By Will on 1/11/2008
I used to have a cat that we creatively named "Kitten." Unfortunately, she now has another family. She was the only cat that I have been near that I wasn't allergic to. Isn't that weird???
By Will on 1/11/2008
As of version 4.06.02, DotNetNuke (DNN) has the built-in capability of providing a Secure Socket Layer (SSL) connection for any page on the web site. Some of you may notice such a page when the little lock appears on your web browser, and the prefix for the URL is "HTTPS" instead of "HTTP". Doing this for your DNN web site is pretty simple.
By Will on 1/10/2008
Here is a picture of Kariann where I caught her being silly.
By Will on 1/9/2008
For this photograph, I chose to showcase my love for nature. Flowers are always beautiful, and it is not very often you get to witness a bee performing his duties.
By Will on 1/8/2008
This is a photograph I took last year when were moving from our old house.
By Will on 1/7/2008
I have decided that I want to expose more of my favorite hobby here in my blog... Photography. (Get it?) I just love taking pictures and capturing moments that cannot be duplicated.
By Will on 1/6/2008
The San Diego Chargers have been waiting MANY years to get a post season win in the NFL. They made that goal a reality today...
By Will on 1/2/2008
Woo hoo! The very first Orlando DotNetNuke Users Group is about to occur. I cannot wait! I have high hopes for this users group. Especially due to the great examples of other user groups in the area.
By Will on 1/2/2008
I have been using the minimum DotNetNuke® version feature in my modules for some time now. It is a great feature in your DNN manifest file that prevents your modules from being installed on unsupported versions. However, when I upgraded from v4.05.03, it didn't work anymore.
By Will on 12/31/2007

Believe it or not, there are quite a few people out there running on versions of DotNetNuke, and haven't upgraded in quite a long time.  This could happen for any number of reasons.  But it's important to know that upgrading is not always as easy as just dowloading and upgrading to the most recent version.  Due to feature inclusion/exclusion, database schema changes, and more, there may be stops you have to make in the upgrade process.

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....
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.)
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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