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• Anyone still running this place? weblogs.asp.net

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  I’m getting a horrible amount of comment spam here on weblogs.asp.net lately. Anyone still maintaining this place? Anything you can do to beef up the spam filtering? I’m half tempted to turn off all comments on my blog posts and to quit using the site...(read more) [...]
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  Posted: November 14, 2009, 12:52am EST
  by Chris Hammond

• OpenForce is Coming! OpenForce is Coming! (v2009)

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  So really, it is just about here! I leave in just over 48 hours to head to Las Vegas for the third annual US OpenForce (DotNetNuke conference), once again being held at Mandalay Bay along with DevConnections. If the previous two years were any sort of...(read more) [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 11:51pm EST
  by Chris Hammond

• Can you run DotNetNuke on Oracle?

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  A few days ago I was surfing through the forums on DotNetNuke.com and came across a post asking if you could run DotNetNuke on an Oracle database. In short, yes you can. But why would you? This blog post will talk about that, and some of the reasons why...(read [...]
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  Posted: October 29, 2009, 11:50pm EDT
  by Chris Hammond

• Silverlight blogging? and a Microsoft Store in SoCal?

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  So I was talking to David Silverlight down in Miami Florida earlier this evening and he started asking me about blogging. I had to lead him towards the path of enlightenment ( Windows Live Writer ) as he was complaining that he completely lost the blog...(read more) [...]
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  Posted: October 26, 2009, 12:28am EDT
  by Chris Hammond

• DotNetNuke Documentation

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  One of the biggest complaints about DotNetNuke , is, and always has been, the lack of documentation. I’ve been trying to help correct that problem for a while now. A year ago I started writing a book that was Published in June, DotNetNuke 5: A User’s...(read more) [...]
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  Posted: October 24, 2009, 11:36am EDT
  by Chris Hammond

• DotNetNuke 5.1.3 Released

  So DotNetNuke 5.1.3 was just released, I’ve already upgraded two of my sites without trouble and will be upgrading more of them here in a few minutes. This appears to be a simple stability release fixing some of the bugs in the previous release(s). Check...(read more) [...]
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  Posted: October 01, 2009, 11:17pm EDT
  by Chris Hammond

• Denver DotNetNuke meetings starting up!

  Just a quick reminder about the Denver Visual Studio User Group meeting 9/28, I will be presenting about DotNetNuke, basically providing an overview to the group. The meeting starts at 6pm, though there is food and other activity starting at 5pm. For...(read more) [...]
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  Posted: September 28, 2009, 11:42pm EDT
  by Chris Hammond

• DotNetNuke Upgrade error: Cannot register or retrieve components until ComponentFactory.Container is set

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  So I was doing some testing of the DotNetNuke 5.1.2 release that came out last week, and ran into a little issue, with some investigation I found it wasn’t a DNN issue, but an issue with security on the operating system. Here’s the error message I found...(read more) [...]
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  Posted: September 08, 2009, 8:04am EDT
  by Chris Hammond

• St. Louis Day of .Net In Review, plus other travel info

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  So I spent the past four days in St. Louis, my home of fourteen years, well, it was my home of fourteen years, until about a month ago when we moved to Denver . I came to town to speak at the St. Louis Day of .Net event on 8/28-29. [...]
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  Posted: August 30, 2009, 1:56pm EDT
  by Chris Hammond

• Holy Crap, DNN Corp just bought Snowcovered!

  Number of comments: 7
  That’s right, DotNetNuke Corporation just acquired SnowCovered, the leading marketplace for DNN Modules and Skins! Great news for the whole DNN Ecosystem! http://www.dotnetnuke.com/Community/Blogs/tabid/825/EntryId/2342/DotNetNuke-Corp-Acquires-Snowcovered...(read more) [...]
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  Posted: August 27, 2009, 11:18am EDT
  by Chris Hammond

• Denver DotNetNuke User Group, getting the ball rolling

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  So it's finally time to get this ball rolling. I've been in the Denver area for just over three weeks now, and am getting things moving with the goal of having the first official Denver DNN User Group meeting in October 2009. I'm currently looking for...(read more) [...]
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  Posted: August 24, 2009, 1:47am EDT
  by Chris Hammond

• Upcoming DotNetNuke Speaking Engagements, St. Louis, and Denver

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  So my move has finally ended, my beautiful wife and I are settled into our new house in Parker Colorado (just outside of Denver), and now it’s time to get back into the swing of things! To get started I’m going to be attending the Denver Visual Studio...(read more)[...]
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  Posted: August 18, 2009, 5:46pm EDT
  by Chris Hammond

• DotNetNuke at the St. Louis Day of DotNet

  The DotNetNuke Track at the St. Louis Day of DotNet ( http://www.stlouisdayofdotnet.com ) is getting even better. My fellow author, Patrick Renner is going to be presenting a session as well, entitled “maintaining design integrity in a content management...(read more) [...]
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  Posted: August 06, 2009, 12:00pm EDT
  by Chris Hammond

• Windows 7 on 8/6/9

  So Windows 7 will be available to a lot of geekts on 8/6/2009 6-7-8-9? coincidence?...(read more) [...]
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  Posted: July 25, 2009, 3:51pm EDT
  by Chris Hammond

• DotNetNuke Sessions at the upcoming St. Louis Day of DotNet

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  So if you have been under a rock lately, you might not have heard about the upcoming St. Louis Day of DotNet event at the end of August, the 28th and 29th. I’ve been working the past few weeks to try to get some DotNetNuke sessions lined up, and so [...]
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  Posted: July 24, 2009, 10:40am EDT
  by Chris Hammond

• Windows 7 is Coming, Windows 7 is Coming!

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  So it’s official, Windows 7 has RTM , that means in short order it will be coming soon! I’m excited, I will get it installed on my Laptop first, then likely buy a new hard drive and put it on my desktop, using the old HD as a virtual PC [...]
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  Posted: July 22, 2009, 4:55pm EDT
  by Chris Hammond

• DotNetNuke Wiki Module Update

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  (originally posted at http://www.dotnetnuke.com/Community/Blogs/tabid/825/EntryId/2291/DotNetNuke-Wiki-Module-Update.aspx ) So it has been a while since I've done a blog post talking about the Wiki module, it is definitely time! The Wiki project is still...(read more)' [...]
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  Posted: July 15, 2009, 12:04am EDT
  by Chris Hammond

• Engage: Publish 5.4 Released

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  So it’s been way too long, 6 months to be pretty exact, since we had a new release for Engage: Publish . Well last Thursday it finally came! We released Publish 5.4 on our website, though without announcement because of everything else we have had going...(read more) [...]
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  Posted: June 29, 2009, 4:37pm EDT
  by Chris Hammond

• A new day for DotNetNuke, 5.1 Released

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  So it’s been a long time coming, but finally, today, there is a stable release of the next step in the evolution of DotNetNuke. Version 05.01.00 was released today on www.DotNetNuke.com   If you’ve been under a rock, DotNetNuke 5 has been coming...(read more) [...]
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  Posted: June 23, 2009, 4:03pm EDT
  by Chris Hammond

• Busy week in the DotNetNuke World, Day of DNN Is Almost Here!

  So I meant to get this post put together yesterday, but was totally busy getting a number of other things done, so here it goes for today! Day of DNN So this weekend (Saturday 6/13/2009) is the big event for DNN so far this year, the first Day of DNN...([...]
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  Posted: June 09, 2009, 10:34am EDT
  by Chris Hammond

• DotNetNuke Training, now available on DVD

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  Back in January of this year I took a trip out to Connecticut and spent a week recording some of our DotNetNuke Training on DVD with none other than Carl Franklin of .NET Rocks fame. It was a fun week, Carl has an amazing studio going out there. What...(read [...]
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  Posted: May 27, 2009, 3:17pm EDT
  by Chris Hammond

• Lots going on in the DNN World, 700k users? Woah!

  So there's a lot going on in the DotNetNuke world this week. First, DotNetNuke 5.1 Beta was released, get it now and start testing! Only you can make it better by testing it to make sure all the bugs are squashed before the release! Second, a milestone...(read more) [...]
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  Posted: May 13, 2009, 3:40pm EDT
  by Chris Hammond

• DNNVoice Show #6

  So Tom and I finally recorded Show #6 of the DNNVoice Thursday evening. I didn’t get a chance to edit until this evening. Below is a copy/paste of the show notes from www.dnnvoice.com   Here’s a very nondescriptive overview of Show #6 of the DNNVoice...(read more) [...]
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  Posted: May 04, 2009, 12:07am EDT
  by Chris Hammond

• New DotNetNuke Training Webinars

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  Early last year we at Engage started putting together our training materials for DotNetNuke . We’ve been delivering DNN training for almost 5 years now, but had always done it customized for individual clients, starting in 2008 we began offering Classroom...(read more) [...]
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  Posted: April 29, 2009, 5:42pm EDT
  by Chris Hammond

• DotNetNuke 4.9.3 Released

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  If you caught Show #5 of the DNNVoice ( www.dnnvoice.com ) you have probably already heard this information, but for those of you who haven’t DotNetNuke 04.09.03 was released this week. This release has a number of bug fixes from the 04.09.02 version...(read more) [...]
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  Posted: April 10, 2009, 2:36pm EDT
  by Chris Hammond

• Vote for DotNetNuke

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  DotNetNuke is up for a few award competitions in which you can vote! Get out there and vote, support the best open source platform on the .NET Framework. The Microsoft Canada Ignite IT Awards voting ends on 3/31, so you can vote today and tomorrow. http...(read more) [...]
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  Posted: March 30, 2009, 10:05am EDT
  by Chris Hammond

• April 2009 DotNetNuke Training – Special Offers

  We are having another round of DotNetNuke classroom training here in St. Louis in early April, if you’re interested in attending check out the special offers that Rich posted earlier today in the DNN Forums . These offers include discounts on multiple...(read more) [...]
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  Posted: March 17, 2009, 3:11pm EDT
  by Chris Hammond

• DNNVoice A DotNetNuke Podcast, Show #3

  For Show #3 I brought on a co-host, the one and only Tom Kraak from www.seablick.com . The topics for #3 include upcoming DNN events, a review of a DNN User Group meeting in Orlando, blogging on DNN, and all the DNN activity on Twitter lately. you can...(read more)[...]
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  Posted: March 16, 2009, 12:24pm EDT
  by Chris Hammond

• Community-Credit.com 3rd Place for February 2009

  Wooooowhooo! I won another Community-Credit prize! Though, I’m still waiting to receive my prize from November 2008! (hint hint) If you don’t know what Community-Credit.com is check it out, you can register there and then track your “points”, you get...(read more) [...]
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  Posted: March 10, 2009, 2:43pm EDT
  by Chris Hammond

• Presenting at the Orlando DotNetNuke User Group Meeting 3/5

  I'll be heading to Orlando next week for my first INETA event for 2009. I'll be presenting at the DNN User Group meeting on 3/5. If you're in the area be sure to come to the meeting, I'll have some Engage: Hunting shirts to give away (the same bright orange [...]
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  Posted: February 27, 2009, 12:41am EST
  by Chris Hammond

• DotNetNuke 5.0.1 Released DNNVoice Show #2 Released!

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  So DotNetNuke 5.0.1 just released, check out Joe’s blog post covering the release .   I also recorded and produced Show #2 of the DNNVoice , a weekly DotNetNuke Podcast last night covering the 5.0.1 release of DNN . You can find the latest DNNVoice...(read more) [...]
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  Posted: February 25, 2009, 6:13pm EST
  by Chris Hammond

• A new DotNetNuke Podcast

  So over the past week I’ve spent some time putting together my first podcast, called DNNVoice. Check out http://www.dnnvoice.com/ to get the RSS feed for the podcast. It is most definitely rough, I plan to smooth things out over time as I learn more about...(read more) [...]
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  Posted: February 19, 2009, 1:27pm EST
  by Chris Hammond

• What happened to your beloved DotNetNuke?

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  Just a disclaimer here. This blog post comes from me as a DotNetNuke user, it doesn't necessarily represent the thoughts and opinions of the DotNetNuke Corporation , as I am not employed in anyway by the corp. Well the time has come for the fear to strike...(read more)' [...]
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  Posted: February 15, 2009, 10:47am EST
  by Chris Hammond

• INETA Community Champs Program, I’m a winner!

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  After seeing so many of my DNN brethren take home awards from INETA for Q3 2008 I must say I was a little jealous. Well guess who’s an INETA Community Champion Award Winner for Q4 2008! I’ve not been quite as active over the past month with the holidays...(read [...]
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  Posted: February 04, 2009, 11:26pm EST
  by Chris Hammond

• The Adventures of VMWare, Windows 7, Web Platform Installer, SQL Server 2008 Express, IIS 7 and installing DNN, otherwise known as HELL

  Number of comments: 9
  So I had this bright idea, I'd setup VMWare on my desktop here at home and start playing with Windows 7, then I thought I would get a DNN website up and running in Windows 7, and record the whole thing with Camtasia. 24 hours later I've given up and [...]
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  Posted: January 28, 2009, 10:44pm EST
  by Chris Hammond

• Any relation to Scott Guthrie?

  Number of comments: 4
  Can anyone confirm that this Panda named Gu Gu is related to Guthrie? If so, keep a close eye on him! http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28554008/?GT1=43001 Gu Gu strikes again! Panda attacks zoo visitor 240-pound animal clamps down on leg of man who climbs...(read more) [...]
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  Posted: January 08, 2009, 10:14am EST
  by Chris Hammond

• Connecticut DotNetNuke User Group meeting January 13, 2009

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  I’m proud to say that I am going to be presenting at the January meeting of the CT DNN User’s group! It’s 1/13/2009 at Profitec / Prescient, One Barnes Park South, Wallingford, CT 06492 . If you’re in the area and want to learn how to quickly get into...(read [...]
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  Posted: January 07, 2009, 11:31pm EST
  by Chris Hammond

• DotNetNuke is now available on Codeplex

  One thing that came along with the new releases of DotNetNuke, all of the downloadable content was a transfer to Codeplex . One of the biggest benefits, in my personal opinion, of the move are getting rid of those annoyingly distracting and overreaching...(read more) [...]
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  Posted: January 02, 2009, 9:52pm EST
  by Chris Hammond

• New DotNetNuke Releases available!

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  That’s right, I said releases, plural! For the Xmas Holiday DNN released version 4.9.1 and 5.0 on Xmas Eve. The 4.9.1 version includes a number of bug fixes for the 4.9 platform, a security fix, as well as a new HOST menu option, Dashboard. The 5.0 version...(read more) [...]
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  Posted: December 29, 2008, 11:51pm EST
  by Chris Hammond

• New Community-Credit.com DNN Module Release

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  So a few weeks ago I released a DNN Module for www.community-credit.com . Today I am happy to announce I've put together another release! You can find it here. http://www.codeplex.com/S8RCC/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=21088 We've updated the...(read more) [...]
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  Posted: December 27, 2008, 12:42am EST
  by Chris Hammond

• Community Credit Winner for November 2008

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  This fall has been a busy time for me, a lot of community interaction, though that is pretty typical with the position I’ve put myself in with DotNetNuke and at Engage Software . November however I had enough participation in community activities to take...(read more) [...]
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  Posted: December 24, 2008, 3:14am EST
  by Chris Hammond

• Another shot of nostalgia regarding DotNetNuke

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  So I’ve been a busy guy lately, I’ve been taking night classes and I’ve been travelling all over the place, August and September included trips to New York/New Jersey, Boston, Amsterdam, Dubai, Las Vegas, in October and November.  Next week I am...(read more) [...]
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  Posted: December 12, 2008, 1:15am EST
  by Chris Hammond

• Engage: Publish 5.3 Released, the ultimate CMS for DotNetNuke

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  It is with great pleasure that we announce the 5.3 release of our Engage: Publish module, the ultimate CMS module for DotNetNuke, providing unmatched versioning and workflow capabilities within the DNN framework. The 5.3 release of Engage: Publish provides...(read more) [...]
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  Posted: December 05, 2008, 11:36am EST
  by Chris Hammond

• Why DotNetNuke Corp getting funding is good for you!

  Number of comments: 8
  All of this information is simply my opinion, value it, or devalue it as you may ;) So in case you live under a rock, DotNetNuke Corporation announced that they’ve raised Series A Capital through a couple of venture firms this week . This was actually...(read more) [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2008, 10:30am EST
  by Chris Hammond

• Are you PC? I am PC and proud!

  Number of comments: 10
  Are you PC? I walked into the Apple store today with Dang , it about made me sick (his macbook was broken, AGAIN). It was all I could do to respond pleasantly when one of the many (too damn many) clerks asked me if I needed help. I wanted to [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2008, 10:12pm EST
  by Chris Hammond

• St. Louis Day of .NET December 13th

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  Are you in the St. Louis area, or near by? You might be interested in checking out the St. Louis Day of .NET that is scheduled for 12/13/2008. My good buddy Scott Spradlin has been getting this organized and lined up a great list of speakers covering...(read more) [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2008, 11:00am EST
  by Chris Hammond

• Changing My Windows Live ID

  I think I am finally going to change my Windows Live ID. I've always used autocrss@hotmail.com but honestly I have never used that email address, and I don't like it. So I am going to switch over to christoc@live.com . If you have me on your Live Messenger...(read more)[...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2008, 9:37pm EST
  by Chris Hammond

• DotNetNuke Social Sponsored by Active Modules

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  Much kudos to Active Modules and those wacky guys from the DotNetNuke Corporation for the DNN Social event tonight for OpenForce attendees. If you didn’t get in because you weren’t registered for OF you missed out! There were a ton of prizes given out...(read more) [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2008, 1:54am EST
  by Chris Hammond

• OpenForce Session, Navin’s discussion on open source and commercialization

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  Open source is better because open work closer together more economic value for $$$ invested than any other model The Rise and Rise of DotNetNuke Graph of downloads and life cycle stage for open source projects Jboss has the greatest first 4 years, DNN...(read more) [...]
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  Posted: November 11, 2008, 4:18pm EST
  by Chris Hammond

• Done with my first OpenForce Presentation

  Number of comments: 6
  So I just finished up my DNN presentation, “How to sell DNN, why your customers should be using it” we had a lot of great questions going on after the presentation. I’m looking forward to my session on Thursday. I'll blog more after I get some food....(read more) [...]
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  Posted: November 11, 2008, 3:02pm EST
  by Chris Hammond

• DotNetNuke OpenForce Keynote

  Number of comments: 5
  (Live blogging come back soon for more) So Shaun’s Keynote is about to start, Joe is doing some quick announcements. The room is packed! People standing in the back. Looks like about half the room had been to OpenForce last year, maybe more, maybe less...(read more) [...]
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  Posted: November 11, 2008, 12:17pm EST
  by Chris Hammond

• Scott Guthrie’s Keynote at DevConnections/OpenForce

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  (Live updates occurring, check this post for more info later.) There must be a thousand people or more sitting here in the room with us watching Scott Guthrie’s keynote here on the first day of DevConnections/OpenForce 2008. Scott is currently showing...(read more) [...]
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  Posted: November 11, 2008, 10:21am EST
  by Chris Hammond

• We made it to OpenForce

  So we made the trek to Las Vegas today, the long grueling trek it is. We even adopted a kid today (more like a father ;), Scott Spradlin joined the Engage team on our flight and cab ride to the hotel! It’s late, almost midnight here and I have a [...]
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  Posted: November 11, 2008, 1:48am EST
  by Chris Hammond

• If you're blogging from OpenForce get your posts syndicated at DNNBlogs.com

  If you'll be attending OpenForce in Las Vegas this week be sure to get your RSS Feed added to www.dotnetnukeblogs.com. I've spent some time this week setting up a separate feed for OpenForce specific blog posts. You can check it out on this URL [www.dotnetnukeblogs.com] 

  If your RSS [...]

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  Posted: November 09, 2008, 1:18pm EST
  by Chris Hammond

• There's still time to register for OpenForce

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  With just 6 days until OpenForce starts in Las Vegas there is still time to get registered! This will be the ultimate DNN gathering for 2008. I've spent a lot of time this week with the rest of the guys here at Engage Software putting together the materials...(read more)[...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2008, 4:09pm EST
  by Chris Hammond

• WWCD? Would Chuck Zune?

  Number of comments: 2
  So I don't know if any of you watch Chuck , I've been watching it since the first episode last season, it's a great geek comedy if I do say so myself. During last night's episode (which we watched tonight) there was a moment where Chuck ask's Morgan if...(read [...]
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  Posted: October 28, 2008, 10:54pm EDT
  by Chris Hammond

• Looking for DotNetNuke Modules? (minor rant, hopefully an informative post)

  Number of comments: 10
  I’m going to start this blog post off with a minor rant about purchasing DNN modules, and had intended to follow that up with a discussion on the evolution of the DotNetNuke ecosystem customer, but both topics have grown larger than initially planned...(read more) [...]
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  Posted: October 28, 2008, 8:44pm EDT
  by Chris Hammond

• A few weeks till OpenForce08

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  So there are only a couple of weeks left until Openforce 08 in Las Vegas. We (the guys from Engage) leave St. Louis two weeks from this coming Monday. We’re setting up a booth this year, #611, be sure to stop by and check it out. As for the rest [...]
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  Posted: October 26, 2008, 9:52am EDT
  by Chris Hammond

• I’m writing a DotNetNuke Book! “DotNetNuke, A User’s Guide”

  Number of comments: 9
  So this has been in the works for a few months but I’ve managed to withhold blogging about it until the contract was signed for fear of cursing myself and losing the deal. I, along with a coworker at Engage Software   Patrick Renner , will be writing...(read more)[...]
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  Posted: October 22, 2008, 4:32pm EDT
  by Chris Hammond

• Need a test SMTP server? Don't care to get thousands of emails from your tests?

  Number of comments: 3
  Ever needed an SMTP server to use for testing, but you really didn't care if the email actually went anywhere? If so, be sure to check out Neptune ( http://donovanbrown.com/post/2008/10/20/Neptune.aspx ) It's a cool little tool from a buddy of mine, Donovan...(read more) [...]
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  Posted: October 20, 2008, 3:11pm EDT
  by Chris Hammond

• Another day of OpenForce, I hope it doesn’t end!

  Number of comments: 1
  Wow, I must say anyone not attending OpenForce here in The Netherlands this week is missing out (sorry Alex!). It has been a great conference, lots of great people to meet and ideas to discuss. I just finished my last session and came upstairs to change...(read more) [...]
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  Posted: October 07, 2008, 5:22am EDT
  by Chris Hammond

• Shaun’s Keynote

  So we’re all sitting here in Shaun’s keynote, my photo was incorrect earlier when I posted that no one showed up that’s just a photo from the room prior to the keynote, there are actually other people in the room, but I took the empty half. Right now...(read more)[...]
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  Posted: October 06, 2008, 6:34am EDT
  by Chris Hammond

• OpenForce08 Europe under way

  Number of comments: 1
  So Openforce08 Europe is under way. There are 26 or 27 of us sitting here in room 23 watching Stefan Cullmann talking about UDT 5(Forms & Lists) module. Nik Kalyani is next door presenting about Vista Gadgets with DNN. If you're not here you are missing...(read more) [...]
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  Posted: October 06, 2008, 2:57am EDT
  by Chris Hammond

• Day 0 of OpenForce EU 08

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  So Natalie and I are here at the conference hotel for the OpenForce Europe conference. We got here around 4pm, checked into our room, I did some work for my presentation and then we decided to walk around the hotel a little bit around 5pm. Well 6.5 hours...(read more)[...]
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  Posted: October 05, 2008, 5:19pm EDT
  by Chris Hammond

• DNN Presentation at the New England Visual Basic User's Group

  Tomorrow evening (Thursday the 25th) I will be presenting at the New England Visual Basic User's Group meeting. The session will be on a special date from their usual meetings as they scheduled it around my already planned trip to the Boston area for...(read more) [...]
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  Posted: September 24, 2008, 11:45am EDT
  by Chris Hammond

• Engage: Publish 5.2 Released!

  It's been a few months coming but Engage: Publish 5.2 released last week while I was off in Kansas racing . There are a lot of new features/enhancements and bug fixes in the release. You can read a forum thread where I discuss a lot of the new functionality...(read [...]
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  Posted: September 22, 2008, 8:31am EDT
  by Chris Hammond

• DotNetNuke 4.9.0 Released!

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  In case you've been asleep for the past 8 hours, DotNetNuke 4.9.0 released today! You can find out more information about what this release contains over on Brinkman's blog post . I've upgraded 4 of my sites this afternoon, and maybe it's in my head,...(read more) [...]
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  Posted: September 10, 2008, 8:44pm EDT
  by Chris Hammond

• Finding a DotNetNuke Host

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  A few months ago I made a blog post about good DotNetNuke Hosting providers , I would like to continue that thought with an update. I've worked with a few more DNN hosts since that post, from my experience these have been some of the best hosts for DotNetNuke...(read [...]
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  Posted: September 05, 2008, 11:34pm EDT
  by Chris Hammond

• OpenForce08 Post Conference DotNetNuke Training

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  So you're thinking about heading to OpenForce in Las Vegas in November (the DotNetNuke Conference), and you need an excuse to stay in Las Vegas an extra day? Well I have just the excuse for you! Engage Software ( www.engagesoftware.com ) (my employer...(read more) [...]
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  Posted: September 01, 2008, 10:45pm EDT
  by Chris Hammond

• Are you going to OpenForce 08? Show it off!

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  Like last year there are now Conference Badges available for both OpenForce 08 Conferences, Europe and Las Vegas . If you're attending and want to tell people that, check out the individual pages for each conference to get the badges. I am fortunate enough...(read more) [...]
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  Posted: August 21, 2008, 9:40am EDT
  by Chris Hammond

• Have you used the User Defined Table Module?

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  I must say a few things about the User Defined Table (UDT) module for DotNetNuke, I have seen it, but hardly ever used it. I had a site that was using it that I needed to make some changes to tonight, I've been putting off the changes because I was [...]
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  Posted: August 21, 2008, 11:04pm EDT
  by Chris Hammond

• Is your DNN Portal Healthy? Get a checkup with the Engage: Dashboard Module

  Has your DotNetNuke site had a checkup lately? Do you know how big your database is? Do you know how big your database is? How many records are in your event log? site log? What about the last time it was backed up? Have you looked to see how many [...]
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  Posted: August 19, 2008, 9:44pm EDT
  by Chris Hammond

• Have you voted yet?

  Have you voted in the Packt Open Source CMS awards yet? If not head on over and be sure to vote for DotNetNuke! If you're really feeling generous you could vote for a Open Source CMS MVP as well, wink wink, nudge nudge! From the Packt Site " The Packt...([...]
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  Posted: August 19, 2008, 8:05pm EDT
  by Chris Hammond

• DotNetNukeBlogs.com Now International (multilingual)!

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  We've had a few international DotNetNuke feeds submitted to www.dotnetnukeblogs.com , until we have the site setup to provide separate RSS feeds for different languages I've gone ahead and included these new feeds in the main feed ( http://feeds.feedburner...(read more) [...]
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  Posted: August 14, 2008, 9:56pm EDT
  by Chris Hammond

• DotNetNuke Tip: Changing Who Administrator Emails are From

  This will be a quick DotNetNuke Tip, but a worthwhile one nonetheless! I've seen this question asked tons of times, and even got an email from someone this weekend asking the very same thing. "Where do you change the “from” email address...(read more) [...]
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  Posted: August 11, 2008, 8:39pm EDT
  by Chris Hammond

• Gmail, what will I do without you?

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  [QUOTE] We’re sorry, but your Gmail account is currently experiencing errors. You won’t be able to use your account while these errors last, but don’t worry, your account data and messages are safe. Our engineers are working to resolve this issue. Please...(read more) [...]
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  Posted: August 11, 2008, 4:19pm EDT
  by Chris Hammond

• Windows Media Encoder Command Line Batch Encoding

  Mostly for my own purposes I'm making this blog post to keep track of what commands to use to send to the command line to batch encode files with Windows Media Encoder. I'm trying to do this now with AVI files I've processed in Adobe Premier but want...(read more)[...]
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  Posted: August 11, 2008, 12:22am EDT
  by Chris Hammond

• Why is DotNetNuke better than Kentico?

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  Why is DotNetNuke better than Kentico CMS? Reason #1, it's free! DNN is free and easy to configure, Kentico CMS costs $1500 for the enterprise license, and that cost is going up to $9999 on September 1st! For more reasons why you should be using DotNetNuke...(read more) [...]
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  Posted: August 05, 2008, 9:54am EDT
  by Chris Hammond

• DotNetNuke Tip: Validate your modules

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  One easy and useful thing you can do for your DotNetNuke modules is to validate them against W3C standards. I just spent the past 45 minutes (when I should have been sleeping) going through and validating the next release of our Engage: Publish module...(read more) [...]
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  Posted: August 05, 2008, 2:21am EDT
  by Chris Hammond

• DotNetNuke Tip: Module Setting - Display module on all pages

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  Welcome back to my series of DotNetNuke Tips . To get the tips program started back off I'll start with one of the most commonly used, commonly abused, and misunderstood options within the DotNetNuke application. That being the option on the modules settings...(read more) [...]
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  Posted: July 31, 2008, 10:52pm EDT
  by Chris Hammond

• My first windows mobile application?

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  So I think I came up with an idea for my first Windows Mobile application. A Windows Live Writer type application for my Windows Mobile phone. I have an AT&T tilt, and it sure would be nice to be able to blog from the road without having to load up...([...]
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  Posted: July 31, 2008, 8:08pm EDT
  by Chris Hammond

• St. Louis DotNet User Group Meeting

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  So I went to the St. Louis .Net user group meeting after work this evening, two months in a row now! It was definitely an interesting presentation from Denny Boynton . He was talking about Software + Services, rather than SaaS. It was a good talk, but...(read more) [...]
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  Posted: July 28, 2008, 10:23pm EDT
  by Chris Hammond

• I have a new office mate, community credit award

  Last month I received my first Community-Credit.com award . Today my prize showed up ! I am sure this alien will be abducted by someone else here at Engage before too long, but I will fight long and hard to protect my new office mate. One day I need to...([...]
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  Posted: July 21, 2008, 1:27pm EDT
  by Chris Hammond

• OpenForce08.com updated with North American info

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  I checked out http://www.openforce08.com this morning and saw that the Las Vegas information is posted ! OpenForce is the official DotNetNuke conference, now in its second year. If you're interested in going this year be sure to get talking to your boss...(read more) [...]
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  Posted: July 15, 2008, 3:45pm EDT
  by Chris Hammond

• July 2008 St. Louis DNN Users Group

  I just posted the July 2008 St. Louis DotNetNuke Users Group information over on www.dnnug.com Here's a short snippet For the summer we're going back to meeting at the earlier time slot of 6pm! July 21st, 2008 Location: Tricor Braun Time: 6pm Prizes:...(read more) [...]
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  Posted: July 14, 2008, 4:21pm EDT
  by Chris Hammond

• OpenForce 08 Europe Speakers and Sessions posted

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  This October 6th and 7th in Noordwijkerhout The Netherlands OpenForce08 Europe will be held in conjunction with the Seventeenth SDN Conference . The list of speakers for SDN has been posted, it also includes the list of speakers for OpenForce Europe....(read more) [...]
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  Posted: July 11, 2008, 11:52pm EDT
  by Chris Hammond

• The best DNN blogs can be found at DotNetNukeBlogs.com, launch announcement!

  For the past few months I've been working on a project in my freetime (what free time) that I am proud to say has finally been launched! Check it out at DotNetNukeBlogs.com . The goal of the site is to provide a single source providing links to the best...(read [...]
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  Posted: July 08, 2008, 11:17pm EDT
  by Chris Hammond

• DotNetNuke Wiki Module Release 04.01.00

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  The newest version of the DotNetNuke Wiki Module project has been released to the public today, it is available from the downloads page here on DotNetNuke.com . You can see the release notes here in the thread in the Wiki Forum This version of the Wiki...(read more) [...]
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  Posted: July 07, 2008, 1:17pm EDT
  by Chris Hammond

• I am now an INETA Speaker!

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  I hear the INETA newsletter went out on Tuesday morning so I can finally make this blog post, though I have still yet to see a copy of the newsletter. It is with great pleasure that I get to post that I have been added to the INETA Speakers Bureau [...]
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  Posted: July 02, 2008, 12:36am EDT
  by Chris Hammond

• The power of the processor

  So a few weeks ago I finally bucked up and built myself a new computer for gaming/development/video editing at home. I went with a Q6600, 4gb of ram, 1.15tb of drive space (150gb 10krpm, 1tb 7200rpm), a 550w power supply, and a shiny new case. I also...(read more) [...]
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  Posted: July 01, 2008, 2:57pm EDT
  by Chris Hammond

• Community-Credit.com Award

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  So a month ago Antonio got me started on www.community-credit.com , it took me a few weeks to actually start using the site, but I managed to get quite a few items into the site in the month of June and actually won an award! I came in seventh for [...]
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  Posted: July 01, 2008, 12:52pm EDT
  by Chris Hammond

• How to get a dynamic Copyright in your DotNetNuke Portal

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  Here's a quick DotNetNuke Tip. If you want to have your Copyright statement that will appear in the DNN Copyright token (skinobject) of a skin you can do the following. Edit your Portal's settings, in the copyright section remove the copyright statement...(read more) [...]
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  Posted: June 27, 2008, 7:51am EDT
  by Chris Hammond

• Changes coming to DotNetNuke

  A few notable blog posts over on DotNetNuke.com this past week. 1. Cathal posted about a change for DNN 5 (Cambrian) that will remove the ability for administrators to upload skins to their portals, only host users will be able to do so. This has received...(read more) [...]
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  Posted: June 27, 2008, 7:31am EDT
  by Chris Hammond

• DotNetNuke Info: The difference between Parent and Child portals

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  So, in training classes I always get the question "What is the difference between parent and child portals?" Well, the Professional DotNetNuke 4 book defines the two pretty well, but me being a programmer and lazy, I wanted to come up with a more simple...(read more) [...]
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  Posted: June 23, 2008, 8:32pm EDT
  by Chris Hammond

• DotNetNuke homepage won't load, keeps redirecting

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  Alright, so I was setting up my new laptop this week and ran into a problem. It was a familiar problem, but I couldn't track it down. Forum posts didn't help, google didn't help (I kept finding my own damn blog as the number one result when searching...(read more)[...]
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  Posted: June 19, 2008, 9:35pm EDT
  by Chris Hammond

• OpenForce is coming, OpenForce is coming!

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  So I've been saving this blog post for over a month, now that there is information out in the open I'm going to post it! OpenForce08 is coming! Being held at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas again this year, November 10th thru the 13th. The OpenForce08.com...(read more) [...]
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  Posted: June 18, 2008, 12:15pm EDT
  by Chris Hammond

• DotNetNuke 4.8.4 Released

  To go along with my earlier post about DNN today, 4.8.4 has been released due to some minor security issues that were found after the 4.8.3 release shipped. You can get information about the security fixes via Cathal's blog post . Now, I'm off to upgrade...(read more) [...]
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  Posted: June 11, 2008, 5:27pm EDT
  by Chris Hammond

• A new way to Upgrade DotNetNuke

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  If you've ever had me as an instructor for a DotNetNuke class , or heard me present at a user group or conference you've likely heard me say that I always use the DotNetNuke Install package when performing upgrades on my DNN sites. I rarely use the Upgrade...(read more)[...]
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  Posted: June 11, 2008, 11:25am EDT
  by Chris Hammond

• DNN.net

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  How cool is that, www.DNN.net now points to www.dotnetnuke.com . Check out why this is over on Shaun Walker's latest blog post ....(read more) [...]
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  Posted: June 09, 2008, 1:02am EDT
  by Chris Hammond

• Not netnuke, not .nuke, not dot net nuke

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  Alright, time for a little rant here, as I am starting to hear this ····more and more. There seems to be a misconception in the community regarding what the name of DotNetNuke actually is. Over the past few weeks I've heard the name butchered too many...(read more) [...]
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  Posted: June 06, 2008, 2:06pm EDT
  by Chris Hammond