By Antonio Chagoury on
10/8/2010 7:47 AM
It’s 8:15am on Sunday, October 3rd, I am at O’hare International Airport waiting to board my flight and begin the journey back home. As I sit here, I think, in admiration, of the people that made yesterday’s event a success. Their hard work and dedication is inspiring. Trust me folks, organizing such an event is NOT a piece of cake, its tough work. So with that said, I would like to personally thank all the organizers, volunteers, sponsors, and other supporters that contributed to making this event happen.
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By Antonio Chagoury on
4/27/2010 8:28 AM
I am happy to announce the anticipated Blog 04.00.00 module. The module packages have been posted for download on CodePlex.
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By Antonio Chagoury on
4/23/2010 8:24 AM
Did you know that the Blog Module was officially in the Release Tracker? As a matter of fact, that is the 3rd submission to the tracker thus far, as we had to fail the prior two submission due to some minor issues found during the QA process. The last submission occurred on April 16th. At this point the only thing between YOU and this FINAL release is just a little more testing.
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By Antonio Chagoury on
2/12/2010 10:56 AM
This is just a quick post to let you know that the RC (Release Candidate) of the Blog Module version 04.00.00 has been posted on here, on CodePlex.
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By Antonio Chagoury on
1/11/2010 8:35 PM
Last week I announced the release of the BETA of DNN Blog. Since then there has been a “silent” release of BETA 3, which included some fixes to bugs, and issues found by beta testers as well as some that we found ourselves internally. In this blog post I want to share a SQL script that we included in the Beta releases, one that received very little press, and as a result probably one that you never (rightfully so) paid attention to. The SQL script in question is located in the following folder: “DesktopModules/Blog/Upgrade/03.05.02_category_conversion.sql”.
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By Antonio Chagoury on
1/7/2010 12:46 PM
Hello folks and happy new year! A ton of progress has been made on this module since my last blog post back in September ‘09. That being said, I know how you feel, and that unless you have a functional version running on your own DotNetNuke instance you are bound to be a skeptic. Hey, I sit on the other side of the fence too, when it comes to modules that I am not involved in - so believe me, I understand.
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By Antonio Chagoury on
9/2/2009 7:34 AM
Hello folks! Yep, it has been a while since I’ve blogged around here, but rest assured, despite this silence a lot of work has been done on the blog module behind the scenes. Our original plans for the Blog module was to make a really big release, pack it full of new features and bug fixes, and publish it as version 04.00.00. This plan turned out to be more ambitious than we thought. By the time we realized the scope of our grandiose plan and matched it against the realistic time and effort...
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By Antonio Chagoury on
5/11/2009 1:00 PM
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By Antonio Chagoury on
11/17/2008 9:34 PM
Rip Rowan has recently published a great post outlining the improvements the blog module underwent with respect to the "Permalink" link in an effort to improve SEO for the Blog Module. Take a look at comprehensive post and let us know what you think. This is a great opportunity for you to chime in and to let us know your thoughts about the whole URL Friendliness charade before we begin...
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By Antonio Chagoury on
11/12/2008 1:53 PM
 I just wanted to drop you all a quick note to let you know that I have figured out a great way to stream live videos from OpenForce...
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By Antonio Chagoury on
11/7/2008 9:09 AM
Last call! If you have not already registered, it's not too late! Seriously, if you work with DotNetNuke, or are even planning to use it for your enterprise then you cannot miss this opportunity. All the people that make DotNetNuke happen are going to be available to educate you, and support you with every question or concern that you may have on the platform. Great sessions...
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By Antonio Chagoury on
11/4/2008 8:34 AM
It's finally here, version 03.50.00, chock full of new and exciting features and bug fixes. I wanted to take a moment to personally thank every member of the DotNetNuke team. Without their hard work and dedication, all this free software would not be possible. Well, what are you are waiting for? Go Download it here: http://www.dotnetnuke.com/tabid/125/default.aspx ...
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By Antonio Chagoury on
10/29/2008 7:34 PM
Recently, while working on the next version of the Blog module, we looked into an issue that many were reporting but one that we just could not simply reproduce. A localized string that I was absolutely certain I had personally fixed in 03.04.00 was coming back to haunt me, like a villain from a bad horror movie. Today I posted a blog post about how and why the issue eluded us for so long, and of course, the fact that it was no issue at all. All I can say is that it's really interesting...
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By Antonio Chagoury on
9/4/2008 10:16 AM
I am excited to join this great group of people in Las Vegas for this year OpenForce / DevConnections conference, and most of all honored for the opportunity to give a talk on extending the DotNetNuke Membership Provider.
Here are the details (more to come soon):
Done in 60 minutes: Build a Custom Membership Provider
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By Antonio Chagoury on
8/26/2008 8:55 AM
Weighing in at 8lbs and 13oz and measuring 21 inches long the Worthley family welcomes little baby Anna Grace Wortley.
Mom and little one are doing great!
Congratulation! (By the way, when can she start coding?)
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By Antonio Chagoury on
7/21/2008 9:58 PM
Hello Everyone,
After much anticipation, hard work and dedication (from this extraordinary team of professionals) I am pleased to announce that we are "code-complete" and that the Blog module was submitted to the release tracker just moments ago.
I would also like to take a few moments to thank each and every team member without whom this would not have been such a memorable release:
Don Worthley
Dario Rossa
Rip Rowan
Jim Bonnie
Eoghan O'Neill
We will now take...
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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 may encourage responsible posting as well as increased commenting and discussion. Identification icons prevent users from impersonating one...
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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 introduces this functionality and it is activated via the "Module Options" screen.
After...
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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 last version of the current Blog module. We will be re-writing...
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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 welcome.
P.S: There is room for more, so if...
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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 groups of all platforms, programming languages and disciplines band together to bring content to the community.
My presentation, Developing DotNetNuke Modules, is...
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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 Magnolia as well as Joe LeBlanc advocating and representing Joomla! and finally Keith Casey advocating and reprsenting Drupal.
In attendance were roughly 100 people representing...
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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 share my experience and newly aquired knowledge about this control with all of you in this article: http://www.cto20.com/Default.aspx?tabid=647&EntryID=46...
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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 Blog module: search button size
Removed fixed button size, and moved it down one row. Search text can now span across without affecting the layout.
BLG-5307...
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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 http://support.dotnetnuke.com...
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By Antonio Chagoury on
10/24/2007 1:09 PM
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By Antonio Chagoury on
7/20/2007 7:28 AM
Recently Microsoft posted a patch that has caused many of you DNN Blog users a lot of grief, so much grief, that the Blog forum is floaded with topics such as: "HELP!", "CANNOT ADD BLOG" and so on.
First, let me say that I am not blaming Microsoft, in fact, this is clearly our fault! (See "How to Fix" section)
Symptom:When try to Edit or Add and new Blog entry you get the following error message:
Error: Edit Entry is currently unavailable.
DotNetNuke.Services.Exceptions.ModuleLoadException:...
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By Antonio Chagoury on
6/23/2007 9:48 AM
Last year I founded and begun organizing the Capital DotNetNuke User Group, a group dedicated to all DNN professionals, enthusiasts and hobbyists alike.
Although running a user group has not been as easy and glamorous as I originally anticipated it does give me a great sense of accomplishment especially on nights like Thursday, June 21st, 2007.
Thursday night I had the pleasure (again! J) to do the honors and do a presentation on building a DotNetNuke module...
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By Antonio Chagoury on
6/14/2007 2:57 PM
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