By jbonnie on
Friday, October 20, 2006 4:09:31 AM
Since I have a number of sites that I support using Dotnetnuke, I thought it was a good idea to try out IE7 on them now that it is officially released to the masses.
The install took about 15 minutes with the usual reboot included. I fired up the IE7 via the updated icon on the task bar (a bit of an ugly grey if you ask me) and I was taken to a site that asked that I confirm my settings.
Well, I tried to scroll and click a few things, but the system was a bit sluggish, so I checked out task manager and you guessed, IE was spinning at 100% CPU. Anyone for IE7 SP1...
So, I skipped the saving settings step as I assumed the MS site was swamped with other users installing as well. I guess MS should have bought a few more machines for this!
IE 7 looks nice with the tab interface, but the antiphishing icon looks like it is slowing site downloads down, I am sure it is the site that is slow, but I am sure MS will get flack for this.
I look forward to the serious reviews of IE7 and Firefox...
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By jbonnie on
Thursday, October 19, 2006 6:59:38 AM
I am way more out of shape then I thought. It has been one month of going to the gym every other day and I thought I was there. But, I Just did a warm up run for "Nerds on the Run", since I do not want to get overly embarrassed trying to do a short jog between speakers at this weeks code camp in Boston.
I may need oxygen....
It was a great day for a run down at cove Island - next time I'll bring the camera!
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By jbonnie on
Wednesday, October 18, 2006 2:16:30 AM
My brother lives in France and suggested that I get Skype connected to avoid long distance calls.
I decided to try out a USB Skype device that would allow me to use my existing house phones and not be tied to the computer. For a few extra dollars I got an upgraded version that does call forwarding to my cell phone.
Now this is cool!! My brother calls me from France on Skype, if I am not home to answer the call, it is call forwarded to my cell phone!
This is pretty cool technology and I am happy that I did not buy a dedicated Skype phone.
p.s. Only problem is that my brother wants to call for technical support for his Computer! Oh well, nothing is perfect...
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By jbonnie on
Saturday, October 14, 2006 2:18:45 AM
Code Camp 3 has been announced for New Jersey.The date is November 18th, 2006.Here is link to Scott W's post announcing the event and to see when registration information is available.I submitted an abstract to do a talk on Virtual Earth. It is similar to a code camp 1 Presentation that I did, but this will be much better, with some good code examples.Here is the Sesssion Abstract:The Virtual Earth 3.1 Javascript API has been out for a while and is driving Microsoft sites like http://local.live.com/This code walk through will show the Javascript API's and how Virtual Earth functionality can be deployed on your sites.It will show how you can integrate your location data into your own sites. Free resources for Geocoding your existing address data will be demonstrated as well.You will walk away from this session with the code to deploy Virtual Earth Maps into your ASP.NET applications....
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By jbonnie on
Saturday, October 07, 2006 1:35:06 PM
Launched a new website for Christopher's Kitchens, a custom cabinet store in West Babylon, New York.
The site uses the Solaro Crystal Skin. This was done by an excellent skin designer with a great portfolio.
The site makes heavy use of the gallery module. This may need some optimization as one large gallery takes a while to display.
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By jbonnie on
Wednesday, October 04, 2006 11:08:04 PM
Thom Robbins and crew are doing another code camp in Boston.
Could be a good time to get into AJAX!
Saturday and Sunday, Oct 21 and 22, 2006
http://blogs.msdn.com/trobbins/archive/2006/09/28/775695.aspx#789778
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By jbonnie on
Tuesday, October 03, 2006 8:44:22 PM
Free .NET USER GROUP MEETING
When: Tuesday, October 3rd, 2006 at 6:00p.m
Where: UCONN Stamford Campus
Topic: A .NET Framework for Building Service Oriented Applications
Speaker: Bill Zack , Solutions Architect, Microsoft
Overview:
There is abundant guidance on building classical multi-layer multi-tier .NET applications, but very little guidance on building SOA based multi-layer multi-tier applications. The topic will be explored and techniques illustrated with a real-world SOA implementation framework. Speakers Bio:
Bill Zack is a Consultant, Architect, Administrator, Developer, Systems Integrator and the author of several computer books and white papers. He is Co-Moderator of the New York City .NET Developers Group, founder and past president of the New York Enterprise Windows User Group, and the founder and past president of several other computer user groups. He is also the Founder and President of the New York chapter of the International Association...
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By jbonnie on
Monday, October 02, 2006 10:54:35 PM
Took the plunge and upgraded to DNN 3.5.5 last nite. Did the upgrade locally and copied the database and files back up to webhost4life. While doing this I moved from SQL2000 to SQL 2005, that was automagic - wondering if there will be gotchas...
The upgrade was very smooth, except for some javascript errors that I was getting sporadically. I had turned on script debugging to do some work with virtual earth, and decided to just turn off script debugging and proceed with the upgrade. Many sites have javascript errors - so I can not surf with that setting anyway. I'll make a post to the DNN forums to see if the core team knows about this problem.
I am staying with the 3.x cade base until an official upgrade script handles the DNN 3 to 4 upgrade.
Back to portal and module development now!
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By jbonnie on
Monday, August 28, 2006 8:44:17 AM
DNN 4.3.4 was used to deploy a new website called www.moneco-ct.com.
The site is being hosted on websecurestores. This is my first time using them compared to webhost4life.com. it will be interesting to compare the support and performance between the two sites.
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By jbonnie on
Monday, July 17, 2006 3:00:23 AM
Migrating databases between production and development machines can be a challenge at times.I just ran into another complication for user accounts.When migrating databases, you probably are migrating the database and security information contained in it. You may not have the same users defined at the top level database level.If you simply try to create database users with the same names, you will run into problems. The new top level users will not have the same internal ID as the user defined in the moved database.Microsoft has a KB article on this, that shows how to migrate the database users along with the databases, the article for SQL 2005 is at How to transfer the logins and the passwords between instances of SQL Server 2005The KISS method for smaller development shops, is to just use different login names.After migrating the database, simply add a username to the moved database that already exists on the machine and you will...
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