The Mighty Blog

Media Module Version 04.02.00 Released

will.strohl@gmail.com — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 08:00:00 GMT

The next version of the Media Module for DotNetNuke is once again here! In previous releases, ground-breaking features like oEmbed were added. In future releases, expect to see mobile rendering and HTML5 to be in the mix. Today, there were a handful of things that needed to be taken care of before taking this module to the next level.

Tags: DotNetNuke,DNN,Media,Modules,Releases

Category: DotNetNuke

Open Graph Protocol Module for DotNetNuke Version 01.01.01 Released

will.strohl@gmail.com — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 08:00:00 GMT

First, I would like to thank everyone for the feedback and support since the original release of this module. It’s been quite interesting. This module has many things planned for it, but I did want to make sure it lived in the wild for a bit to fix any issues that have been found before I begin adding more features. As it turns out, there were two significant fixes that were required.

Tags: DotNetNuke,DNN,Modules,Releases,Open Graph Protocol

Category: DotNetNuke

Open Graph Protocol Module for DotNetNuke Released

will.strohl@gmail.com — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 08:00:00 GMT

Many of you are not even aware that the Open Graph Protocol even exists. However, it has been the backbone of inter-connected websites ever since social sharing of content and web pages has existed. This is the standard that Facebook, Google+, and others have adopted to properly connect, share, and display content from site to site when a visitor decides to share it. Of course, like any other standard, every site varies on how well they adopt this particular standard.

Tags: DotNetNuke,DNN,Social,Open Graph Protocol,Releases,Modules

Category: DotNetNuke

Media Module Version 04.01.00 Released

will.strohl@gmail.com — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 08:00:00 GMT

It’s once again been a while, but this version of the Media Module for DotNetNuke has been sitting in the hopper for a while. Since before DNN 6.0 was released! As of this moment, I am proud to say that the next version of the Media Module is available to you in the form of version 04.01.00.

Tags: DotNetNuke,DNN,Module,Media,Releases

Category: DotNetNuke

DotNetNuke Then and Now Videos

will.strohl@gmail.com — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 08:00:00 GMT

If you’ve been in the DotNetNuke community for as long as I have and attend any event, you have undoubtedly run into people that haven’t used DNN in years. In fact, the most common type of person I run into with this situation is someone that last looked at DotNetNuke when it was version 3! I wanted to take some time and generate some videos to hopefully invite those people back to take a new look at what is essentially a totally different platform today!

Tags: DNN,DotNetNuke,Videos

Category: DotNetNuke

My DotNetNuke World 2011 Pictures

will.strohl@gmail.com — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 08:00:00 GMT

Any of you that attended DotNetNuke World this year would probably agree… There were few moments when you didn’t see me holding a camera. Most often, I was pointing it at you too, hoping to catch you having the fun time that we all know you were. While I am not a professional photographer, I definitely do my best to create the best images possible. Hopefully the pictures below reflect that.

Tags: DNN,DotNetNuke,DNNWorld,DotNetNuke World,Pictures

Category: Photography

Category: DotNetNuke

Restrictive Versus Non-Restrictive Open Source Licenses

will.strohl@gmail.com — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 08:00:00 GMT

I am by no means an expert on open source licenses. I am not a lawyer. I have, however, been part of the overall open source software community since roughly around 1999 or 2000. During this time, I’ve dealt with open source software almost exclusively. It’s a blur at this point. I began at a time where PHP was king, and Microsoft’s (now Classic) ASP was trying to get in on the party. Long story short, I found out immediately that I loved open source software and I never looked back.

Tags: DotNetNuke,DNN,Open Source,OSS,GPL,MIT

Category: DotNetNuke

Two Mobile-Centric DotNetNuke Sessions Coming to BayDUG

will.strohl@gmail.com — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 08:00:00 GMT

We just had the first Bay Area DotNetNuke User Group (BayDUG) meeting after having a break for over a year now. It was a great presentation. Chris Hammond did an overview of the features that DotNetNuke now offers to people that enable them to being rolling out their mobile-friendly websites. As great as the overview was, it was missing something… Why would you use one feature over another? What should I think about before deciding the “best way” for my website when building my mobile-friendly site?

Tags: DotNetNuke,DNN,Events,User Groups,BayDUG,Mobile,Websites,CMC,WMS,Content Management

Category: DotNetNuke

DotNetNuke World 2011: My Presentation

will.strohl@gmail.com — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 08:00:00 GMT

I look forward to many things at DotNetNuke World – the networking, the events, the people, and more. But one of the things I enjoy immensely is preparing a presentation for people. This year, my presentation for DNN World was DotNetNuke Widgets, from A to Z. Widgets (a.k.a., skin widgets) in DNN are largely misunderstood and seldom used.

Tags: DotNetNuke,DNN,DotNetNuke World,Events,Widgets,Releases

Category: DotNetNuke

DotNetNuke Super Fan 2011 Results

will.strohl@gmail.com — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 08:00:00 GMT

It was quite a fun thing to run the DotNetNuke SUPER Fan contest for the first time ever. Though it really was a lot of work both for me and each of the entrants, it was more than worth the effort. I was very honored to be able to run this contest, because as you probably realize, being a self-proclaimed super fan of DotNetNuke myself, I couldn’t wait to be able to officially designate and announce “the” SUPER fan. This is just what we did at DotNetNuke World.

Tags: DNN,DotNetNuke,Super Fan,Contest

Category: DotNetNuke

What Microsoft Thinks the Future Looks Like

will.strohl@gmail.com — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 08:00:00 GMT

Gizmodo originally publish an article where they editorialized the most recent video released by Microsoft. They even took a light-hearted jab at them, joking about needing a lot more hand sanitizer due to touch interfaces. I would be more concerned about there needing to be a lot more screen cleaners everywhere to counter-act our greasy fingers!

Tags: Microsoft,Video,Presentations

Category: Technology

Hanging out With My Klout Out!

will.strohl@gmail.com — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 08:00:00 GMT

Originally, Chris Hammond and I were planning to go to the #KloutDevNight meetup tonight to hang out with the good folks at Klout.com. Well, Chris got a hamstring cramp or something from too much DotNetNuke training and decided not to go. So, I invited Kim to go with me, and off we went to the offices of Klout! Overall, it was a great idea and I’d love to do it again!

Tags: Klout,Social Media,Meetup,San Francisco

Category: Technology

Category: Personal

My Queen City DotNetNuke User Group Presentation

will.strohl@gmail.com — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 08:00:00 GMT

Last week, I had the pleasure of visiting with and giving a presentation to the Queen City DotNetNuke User Group (QCDUG) in Charlotte, North Carolina. Clint Patterson had been asking me to visit the user group for the better part of a year now, so I decided to finally make that a reality. Last Thursday, I joined many others in attending their meeting – but I also had a presentation to give…

Tags: DotNetNuke,DNN,QCDUG,User Groups,Events

Category: DotNetNuke

Dynamically Change DotNetNuke Skins by Security Role

will.strohl@gmail.com — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 08:00:00 GMT

There are all kinds of ways to make a skin (or design) in DotNetNuke react in a dynamic or personalized fashion, and it can be done in any number of ways. To date, my favorite article on how to do this was written by Vassilis Terzopoulos (@thinkofdesign). As his Hook Your DotNetNuke Skins blog post illustrates, a "user control" style skin allows you to use and reuse the DotNetNuke API in your skin design. This has potentially limitless potential in customizing the user experience from a very high level across your entire site.

Tags: DotNetNuke,DNN,CMS,Design,Skinning

Category: DotNetNuke

Lightbox Gallery 01.09.00 for DotNetNuke Released

will.strohl@gmail.com — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 08:00:00 GMT

There is yet another release of the most popular image gallery module for DotNetNuke, the Lightbox Gallery module. I am very proud of this release, as it marks a few important milestones for this module. All the while, it continues to be one of my favorite open source modules to work on. With this release, it continues to also improve upon the number of features it has and the number of people that use it as their standard image gallery module for DNN.

Tags: DotNetNuke,DNN,Modules,Releases,Announcement,Lightbox,Gallery

Category: DotNetNuke