By Will Strohl on 3/8/2010My 9 year-old son has to do his first science project at school this year on his own. Until now, his science projects have been a class project. Having gone through this before, my only requirement to the kids is that they come up with their own idea for the project. I don’t want them doing what their friends are doing. This forces them to use their brain to figure out an experiment using scientific method – which is the whole point of the project in the first place. I am not a fan of any child using their friends or siblings ideas. Be as unique as you can! :)
Well, the first part of the project is to turn in your idea of the project to the teacher. This involves handing over your scientific question, project title, hypothesis, and so on. The project he chose to do is about saving electricity. He wants to prove (or disprove) that you save electricity when all of your appliances that are not in use are unplugged. I love this idea! It shows that he cares about the environment, thinks about saving... Read More » |
By Will Strohl on 3/7/2010It was less than a year ago that I created the Lightbox Gallery Module, as a proof of concept for using jQuery in a DotNetNuke® module. It has been quite popular considering I only ever expected those who attended my code camp sessions to enjoy it. Since its first release, it has had over 1600 downloads! I am sure that less than 50 people have physically attended those sessions, so that number is staggering for me. That being said, I am pleased to announce that I have another release ready for you to use and abuse.
If you don’t already know, Lightbox is the highly interactive method of displaying pictures on a website. The thing that separates Lightbox out from the uncountable others is that its fast, user-friendly, interactive,... Read More » |
By Will Strohl on 3/5/2010 I have blogged about some community things here and there, and I will begin blogging about them more starting right now. My first meaningful post in this area talked about how to run a user group, and it was more generic in its discussion. It could apply to any user group. This time, I am talking about how to start a user group, and I am focusing this discussion on DotNetNuke® user groups specifically.
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By Will Strohl on 3/4/2010 I will be presenting a webinar later this month titled, “DotNetNuke® Essentials: Simple Solutions for Building Your Website.” I have been very excited for quite some time to be able to announce this. The webinar will focus on DotNetNuke®... Read More »
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By Will Strohl on 3/4/2010 I didn’t notice it when it happened, but jQuery has had a couple of stabilization releases since the popular 1.4 release. The updates are pretty significant and I have seen performance increases that were noticeable to the eye with several implementations after upgrading. I would highly recommend upgrading your current jQuery core scripts if you’re not running version 1.4.2. Here are some tips for those of you running jQuery... Read More »
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By Will Strohl on 3/1/2010 One of the new features in the updates in my website is the “Most Popular Entries” area at the bottom of each page on my site. It gets attention for a few different reasons. First, everyone wants to know how I did it. Next, people want to know what determines the most popular blog entries. Finally, people want to know if I would blog about it. I had always planned to, but since you asked…
First of all, I need to give a quick disclaimer. I... Read More »
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By Will Strohl on 3/1/2010 Another year has gone by since I last visited the Miami area. It was of course for the South Florida Code Camp. There were many things that continue to remain the same with this event: the venue, the coordinators, and of course the fact that this was an incredible event! ... Read More »
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By Will Strohl on 2/28/2010I just got home from the 2010 South Florida Code Camp, where I presented a session titled “How to AJAX-ify Your DotNetNuke Modules.” Here are the presentation files for that session.
Slide Deck – This can be downloaded from my Sessions page.
Code Files – The code files has been released as an open source module on CodePlex. This module is called the QueryToGrid module.
Technorati Tags: DotNetNuke,DNN,Modules,Session,Presentation
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By Will Strohl on 2/24/2010 I just finished reading the interview with Shaun Walker by the folks at HowSoftwareIsBuilt.com. This is a website sponsored by Microsoft, whose purpose is to open a dialogue for proprietary... Read More »
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By Will Strohl on 2/24/2010As you likely know, I am a user of twitter. You’ll find me at: http://twitter.com/WillStrohl. Lately, I don’t contribute as much as I used to, but I still try and pay attention to what’s going on. For example, I have an ongoing search that filters all tweets based on some DotNetNuke® keywords. Today, this search came across a blog post titled, Does DNN Allow Me To Do SEO Stuff. I liked this post, despite it being on a non-DNN blog platform. It only scrapes the surface though.
Basically, it mentions that DNN makes it easy to manage the Page Title, Keywords, and Description. Unfortunately, the only thing here that is very important these days with SEO is the Page Title. The Kewords and Description can help, but by all accounts, little to no... Read More » |