By Antonio Chagoury on 6/14/2008 10:53 PM

Identification Icons

Identification icons are quickly becoming a popular way for bloggers to encourage responsible use of blog comments.  A variety of solutions are available, all of which aim to provide useful benefits to the blog reader.

Identification icons allow blog readers to personalize their posts just like a forum avatar.  The additional personalization m ... Read More »

By Antonio Chagoury on 6/14/2008 7:05 AM

Blog Friendly URLs
An established best practice for SEO is for keywords relating to the content of a web page to appear in the page's URL (what is often called a "Human Friendly" URL).  Among several established blog platforms this is put into practice by taking the title of the blog entry (which is often a semantically strong indicator of what the page is about) and putting it into the entry's URL. Version 03.04.01 intr ... Read More »

By Antonio Chagoury on 6/12/2008 12:01 PM

Hello Everyone,

We've been a little silent lately, but I assure you, a LOT has been going on.

First of all, we have been "recruiting" like crazy, and we have put together an awesome team that I am proud to be part of, more on this on another blog entry.

We have also been busy wrapping up development of the next version of the Blog module (3.4.1). I know I have said this before, but I mean it this time when I say that this will be ... Read More »

By Antonio Chagoury on 3/25/2008 8:55 AM

It gives me great pleasure to welcome Don Worthley to the Blog Team.

Don is an experienced .net developer and a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT). He has been very active in the community forums and diligently answering your questions and helping out wherever and whenever possible.

Don is a great addition to the team, and I am personally glad to have him on board to help shape the future of the Blog module.
Please join me in giving him a warm wel ... Read More »

By Antonio Chagoury on 3/23/2008 8:10 PM

For those of you who are in the Washington DC metro area and are interested in learning more on building DotNetNuke Modules, I will be presenting at NoVa CodeCamp South on Saturday, March 29th at the Strayer University Woodbridge Campus. 

NoVa CodeCamp is a free all-day developer event and has become an international trend where peer ... Read More »

By Antonio Chagoury on 2/28/2008 3:05 PM

Last night I had the pleasure and honor to be a panelist representing DotNetNuke at the Washington DC Web Content Mavens.
Other than just have a blast sharing my unbiased knowledge and experience about DotNetNuke I had the priviledge of doing it next to folks like Scott Davis from Alfresco, Boris Kraft, CEO of   Read More »

By Antonio Chagoury on 2/13/2008 1:28 PM

Hi Folks,

I just posted the first of a series of blog posts called "DNN Best Kept Secrets".

Yesterday I was searching for some information/documentation on how to use the DNN Paging Control. Unfortunately I was not able to find anything that really helped so I just dived into the code and experimented until I figured out how it works and how to stitch it into any datasource (It wasn't that hard, btw).

As usual, I figured I would ... Read More »

By Antonio Chagoury on 1/8/2008 8:47 AM

Hello Everyone,

I just wanted to inform you that the Blog has officially been released and packages have been posted in the the Downloads area.

Here are the release notes:

BLG-6299 Blog module: Updating comments
Button now says Update when updating the comment.

BLG-4501 Bl ... Read More »

By Antonio Chagoury on 1/6/2008 10:39 AM

Hello Folks,

As part of the Release Process, the module has successfully passed the *dog fooding* stage and the module was deployed here, on DotNetNuke.com. Yes, you are reading this blog on the latest version (03.04.00), so if you are interested in seeing some of the changes/fixes, do snoop around.

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By Antonio Chagoury on 12/10/2007 4:55 PM

Hello Folks,

I just wanted to drop you all a quick note to let you know that moments ago I submitted the Blog module to the release tracker.

We dedicated this release to fixing the critical issues reported by the community. I am confident that this release will be well received as it does include some nice UI enhancements as well.

Here is a quick list of the issues resolved in this version, for more details please go to Read More »