By jbonnie on
Wednesday, November 12, 2008 1:36:29 PM
Thanks to everyone that attended this morning's session at OpenForce 2008. We had a decent showing for the 08:00 am session.
I have posted the slides and sample project with the simple GolfScore MVP project with tests, as well as the project from the testdriven DNN projects built with the project templates on CodePlex
It is very exciting to have DotNetNuke V5 RC2 released for public download. We can all dig into the DNN container and Interfaces and see how we can all do more unit testing of our DNN modules.
Happy Coding!
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By jbonnie on
Sunday, November 09, 2008 12:46:02 PM
The DotNetNuke Blog Module V 3.05.00 was recently released, see Antonio's Blog Post.
The new DNN version has a lot of features that Antonio's talks about, download it here.
This is a quick post with some screen prints that show how easy it is to set up the blog for posting from a Web Authoring tool that supports the MetaWebLog API, such as Windows Live Writer.
Here are some screen prints from my install on a new Laptop that I am setting up for my travels to OpenForce, you are going also, right?
Step 1) Download and Install Windows Live Writer - The installer was a bit obnoxious and kept coming to the foreground to report installer progress...
Step 2) Start the install and select the option stating that you already have...
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By jbonnie on
Sunday, November 09, 2008 12:01:01 PM
Yesterday was the 2nd Annual Code for the DotNet Users group of Westchester/Fairfield County.
It was a rainy day in Connecticut and the last of the leaves were letting go.
The event was at a great venue again, the Stamford campus for UCONN.
I was only able to attend 3 sessions, as I am busy getting ready for a 2 week trip starting with OpenForce at Devconnections this coming week.
How could I miss a session...
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By jbonnie on
Monday, November 03, 2008 6:24:15 PM
A new release of the DotNetNuke Blog is now available for download.
This release provides a number of enhancements, one of the most exciting is support the metaBlog API.
That's right, now you can write your posts from windows Live Writer, Word 97, and other popular tools that support the metaBlog API.
Check out Antonio's Blog posts on the wealth of new features.
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By jbonnie on
Friday, October 24, 2008 4:28:25 PM
I just completed one of the best projects to work on to date.
I thoroughly enjoyed working with the SAP team and Daniel was an excellent developer to pair with and challenge me. 
Daniel was open to using different tools such as Subversion and Tortiose SVN. After the first few weeks and sneaker net and USB thumb drives, the project productivity took a leap with the use of SVN. You should have seen his face when our conflicts were merged for us!!!
There was a single case when we needed to manually manage a conflict. This saved days if not weeks of time on the project.
I had the data access layer in place in a single day with SubSonic, but use of this tool was outside the corporate policy so it needed to be replaced with some home grown ADO.NET methods. The amount of hand written code must have also taken...
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By jbonnie on
Wednesday, October 22, 2008 11:09:58 PM
Next week is the Kaizen Conference in Austin Texas, and David Laribee has just posted some information on the Pre-Conference Agenda. I am really excited to be headed back to Austin. Last year ASP.NET MVC was unveiled. Who knows what this year will bring!!!
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By jbonnie on
Monday, August 18, 2008 9:05:26 PM
It was a great time at the Hartford Code Camp. Thanks to the people that attended the TDD with Dotnetnuke session. The questions and interaction were very helpful. The slides can be found here. I will post the code samples if anyone is interested. Remember that the TDD templates testdrivendnn for DNN on Codeplex, will only work with the upcoming Cambrian release, aka DNN 5.0 Have fun!
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By jbonnie on
Wednesday, July 02, 2008 6:15:05 AM
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CTDOTNET CodeCamp - Hartford CT (Saturday Aug 16th 9AM-5PM)
To be held at New Horizons Computer Learning Center (Bloomfield CT) http://www.newhorizons.com/content/centerSearchResults.aspx?SiteId=25
A code camp is a FREE, community-driven, all-day event for developers. Speakers are local or regional developers. Topics are based on community interest. Sessions are original and feature a heavy technical focus (no marketing fluff). We will follow the Spirit of the Codecamp Manifesto as described here - http://www.thedevcommunity.org/codecamps/manifesto.aspx
We are seeking talented .NET developers to make a presentation or two at the First Hartford CodeCamp on August 16th (Saturday). If you have ever wanted fame (& perhaps fortune) - this is...
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By jbonnie on
Monday, June 30, 2008 6:09:58 PM
Technorati Tags: DNN
During my recent vacation to Monaco, I made some blog posts with photos to share with friends and family. My brother had some trouble with the blog summary feature and it was not easy to see that clicking on the Blog Title would bring up the entire blog post and ... more pictures.
He suggested that I just post the pictures to flcker, but that is to easy! As I have been reading a JQuery book, it was a good time to see what could be done to create a slide show or just share some pictures with some custom development.
I saw a number of add ins built using JQeury, so I figured that was a good place to start, going slow and integrate someone else's work. There was a really nice photo display module called Galleria. It shows thumb nails that are click-able to show the full image in another section on the screen. The thumb nails are generated on the fly. I had a DNN version working but the thumb nail placement was not working in FF, it was okay in IE 7. I lost the battle with the CSS and generated html. So much for JQuery handling the differences in browsers for you...It can handle the DOM abstraction, but can not save you from the CSS/HTML differences.
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By jbonnie on
Tuesday, June 24, 2008 4:12:15 AM
The Monaco trip is winding down. We had an amazing time on Sunday celebrating dad's birthday. We started with a trip aboard Paul's rib style boat. Perfect for a nice short trip. We sailed along the coast in the photo that my father is standing in front of here. It was better in real life!
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After a swim down the coast, we came back to a great spot on the beach. Here is a shot as we were leaving, and my dad coming back after a swim. Kevin and Paul needed to give him a helping hand.
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