Joe Brinkman

ASP.Net WebForms and MVC are Dead to Me

joe.brinkman@dotnetnuke.com — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 03:03:43 GMT

After working with ASP.Net Webforms for the past decade, the time has come to move on. I have enjoyed using Webforms and I was pretty good at bending ASP.Net to my will. Having recently tried some newer web frameworks I find that I am more productive than ever before. Over the past couple of years I have dabbled with ASP.Net MVC, jQuery and even WebFormsMVP but none of them truly held my interest for long. I never felt like they really offered solutions to problems that I was worried about. Because of my involvement with DotNetNuke, and the fact that it relies heavily on Webforms, I found that I couldn’t justify the use of some of these technologies. Things like WebFormsMVP added too much friction to the way I was used to working. ASP.Net MVC couldn’t really work in any meaningful way with DotNetNuke. And jQuery was a nice add-on, but it didn’t fundamentally change the way I developed modules.

Tags: ASP.Net,Webforms,KnockoutJS,javascript

Category: Development

Securing .Net Web Apps

joe.brinkman@dotnetnuke.com — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 11:24:47 GMT

From time to time I run across some great development resources on the web that are worth sharing. The below list of blog posts by Troy Hunt is a great starting point if you want to find out about the biggest threats to the security of your websites and the techniques you can use in your development and site administration efforts to prevent such exploits. While we take every effort to ensure that the core framework remains secure, there is still a lot of control that is left in the hands of module developers and site administrators.

Tags: Security,.Net,OWASP

DotNetNuke Alert: The Modules are Missing!

joe.brinkman@dotnetnuke.com — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 18:55:07 GMT

If you have downloaded and installed DotNetNuke 6.1 you have probably noticed that the core modules are “missing” from the DotNetNuke packages. This is a large change from every previous version of DotNetNuke. Ever since Shaun first released DotNetNuke in 2002, we have included a number of modules in the core platform. How these modules have been packaged has changed over the years, but customers have become accustomed to seeing them.

In DotNetNuke 6.0 we provided a great new capability that integrates the DotNetNuke Forge and DotNetNuke Store (SnowCovered) into the core platform. This feature means that every module in the Forge can be quickly discovered and installed into the platform in just a couple of clicks. If you haven’t tried this feature, I definitely recommend you give it a try. It is definitely one of the great new features in the DotNetNuke 6 platform.

Tags: DotNetNuke,Modules,Forge,extensions

Category: Development

Category: Extension Forge

Category: Community

The Changing Face of DotNetNuke Product Management

joe.brinkman@dotnetnuke.com — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 21:41:37 GMT

DotNetNuke has undergone many changes over the last 8 years in the way the product is developed and managed. Having been part of the main engineering and product teams from the early days of the Open Source project I have had a number of roles on the team. Last year I moved from being focused on application development as part of the Engineering team to being more focused on product management. A big part of my role on the product management team was handling release management.

Tags: DotNetNuke,Product Management

Category: Development

DotNetNuke 6.0.2 Released

joe.brinkman@dotnetnuke.com — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 22:08:22 GMT

I am pleased to announce that DotNetNuke 6.0.2 is officially released. This maintenance release further solidifies DotNetNuke 6.0 and resolves a few outstanding issues which were not addressed in the 6.0.1 release. Like with the 6.0.1 release, our goal was to continue providing quick resolution of outstanding issues to ensure that customers could upgrade to the 6.x platform with little difficulty.

Tags: DotNetNuke,Release

Category: Community

Category: DotNetNuke Corporation

DotNetNuke 6.0.1 Released

joe.brinkman@dotnetnuke.com — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 21:47:25 GMT

I am pleased to announce that DotNetNuke 6.0.1 is officially released. This maintenance release was focused on resolving a number of issues that were found in the 6.0.0 release. Given the extensive set of changes in DotNetNuke 6.0 we recognized the need to quickly identify and resolve issues discovered by our customers as they tried the new release in production environments. This maintenance release further improves what many customers have already told us was a pretty stable release.

Tags: DotNetNuke,Release

Category: Development

Using the DotNetNuke Azure Accelerator

joe.brinkman@dotnetnuke.com — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 15:01:22 GMT

Late last year, I began work on getting DotNetNuke to run on Windows Azure. After a few months of research and numerous dead-ends, I finally had a fully working prototype. During this same period, David Rodríguez, was also doing some work with DotNetNuke and Azure as well.

After working through a few dead-ends of his own, David found the Azure Accelerator project from Slalom Consulting and decided to use this as a base for developing a DotNetNuke version.

Tags: DotNetNuke,Windows Azure

Category: Community

Category: Development

Announcing DotNetNuke 6!

joe.brinkman@dotnetnuke.com — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 00:34:21 GMT

I am pleased to announce the launch of DotNetNuke 6. This release marks a significant milestone in the history of DotNetNuke platform. Keep reading to find out all that DotNetNuke 6 has to offer both seasoned users and those just seeing the platform for the first time.

Tags: DotNetNuke,DotNetNuke 6,Release

Category: Community

Category: Development

Almost There – DotNetNuke 6 Release Candidate

joe.brinkman@dotnetnuke.com — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 00:18:17 GMT

After 8 months of effort the finish line is in sight. With almost 3000 code checkins touching more than 2000 individual files, this release has been monumental in it’s scope compared to most DotNetNuke releases. Not since the days of DotNetNuke 2.0 and 3.0 have we accomplished so much in a single release. In spite of the sheer number of changes we have made, DotNetNuke 6 is one of the most stable platform versions in quite a while. That is not just my opinion but the opinion of the vast majority of people participating in our beta testing.

Tags: DotNetNuke,DotNetNuke 6,Release Candidate

Category: Community

Category: Development

DotNetNuke 6.0 Beta 2

joe.brinkman@dotnetnuke.com — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 21:47:06 GMT

The clock is winding down on the DotNetNuke 6 release. All of the features have been integrated and we are now focused exclusively on polishing the app before we ship later this month. At this point we have identified all of the issues we plan to resolve for the initial launch and are working through final phases of the testing process. In order to assist people in planning for a smooth upgrade process for 6.0 we are providing a second beta release so that people can retest upgrades and installations which may have had serious issues with Beta 1. If you find an issue we ask that you enter it in the bug tracker so that we can evaluate whether it a showstopping issue or whether it is something that could be held for our first 6.x maintenance release which we expect to be about a month after the DotNetNuke 6.0 launch.

Tags: DotNetNuke,Beta

Category: Community

Category: Development