Jim Bonnie's Blog

DotNetNuke - Keeping up with Technology with Open Source Projects

Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:09:19 GMT

I need to take a moment to thank the DotNetNuke Project and User community for providing an excellent ecosystem for keeping up with technology.

It is truly amazing to see DotNetNuke keep up with the latest releases from Microsoft across the board for IIS, ASP.NET, SQL Server, and the many API's coming out of Redmond.

You certainly do not need to worry about being left behind with technology when choosing DNN as Web Framework. I have seen DNN be there day one for the releases on VS 2005 and ASP.NET 2 as well as the release of VS 2008. You know that DNN will have downloads available almost immediately VS 2010 and ASP.NET 4 are released.

And the same can be said for the core technologies that Microsoft releases.

· OpenID

· Linq To SQL

· Silverlight

· Dynamic Data

· Live API’s

I was lucky enough to be involved with of the DNN teams and projects and was very excited to see them embrace concepts such as Test Driven Development and incorporating their own Container for assigning Concrete classes to required interfaces in a flexible manner. They are supportive of other open source technologies such as Subsonic and you can almost always find someone else working on a solution to an issue in the forums for newer technologies.

So do not be afraid of being left behind and having trouble with support for existing or new technologies. The DotNetNuke Framework and Corporation will not let you down!

Pablo's Fiesta Feb 2010 - Sharpen that saw!

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:37:49 GMT

Pablo's Fiesta

Los Techies Open Space Conference on Software Quality & Craftsmanship

When: February 26, 27 & 28
Where: St. Edward's Professional Educational Center, Austin TX

Hope to see you in Austin!

Hot Yoga coming to Maui soon

Sun, 14 Jun 2009 21:46:38 GMT

It looks like July 1st will be the grand opening of Maui Yoga and Kickboxing.

I am so excited for my sister Mary and James. i wish them the best of luck on the island. I knnow that they are getting some great hot yoga.

Here is Mary in the new studio.

And here is James swimming with the dolphins.

The ASP.NET Bundle from Typemock - Unit testing keeps getting easier

Mon, 18 May 2009 19:42:45 GMT

Unit Testing ASP.NET? ASP.NET unit testing has never been this easy.

Typemock is launching a new product for ASP.NET developers – the ASP.NET Bundle - and for the launch will be giving out FREE licenses to bloggers and their readers.

The ASP.NET Bundle is the ultimate ASP.NET unit testing solution, and offers both Typemock Isolator, a unit test tool and Ivonna, the Isolator add-on for ASP.NET unit testing, for a bargain price.

Typemock Isolator is a leading .NET unit testing tool (C# and VB.NET) for many ‘hard to test’ technologies such as SharePoint, ASP.NET, MVC, WCF, WPF, Silverlight and more. Note that for unit testing Silverlight there is an open source Isolator add-on called SilverUnit.

The first 60 bloggers who will blog this text in their blog and tell us about it, will get a Free Isolator ASP.NET Bundle license (Typemock Isolator + Ivonna). If you post this in an ASP.NET dedicated blog, you'll get a license automatically (even if more than 60 submit) during the first week of this announcement.

Also 8 bloggers will get an additional 2 licenses (each) to give away to their readers / friends.

Go ahead, click the following link for more information on how to get your free license.

Summer Golf Camp by Baci Golf in Boca Raton

Sun, 10 May 2009 21:07:05 GMT

Of course one of the first things that I did when moving to Florida was to check out the local golf courses. Boca Raton has two town golf courses and the Glades facility has a driving range.

I am so happy that on my first visit I ran into Rusty Bacigalupi. Rusty is a golf professional working at the Boca Municipal course. I decided to sign up for some lessons with Rusty instead of just beating balls at the range. Rusty has a great style and makes learning the game of golf a lot of fun. I am confident that I will finally make my goal of breaking 80!!! Thanks Rusty!!!

Rusty puts on some junior golf programs and registration is now open for 4 different sessions being held in June and July.

The full details are available in this flyer. Y9ou can also check out BaciGolf's Web page.

DotNet and DotNetNuke in Florida

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:18:31 GMT

Well, it must be official. My transition to Florida is nearly complete.

I have attended code camps in Miami and Orlando. It was great to see Florida based speakers that I did not see back in the North East.

What a treat to see the likes of David Hayden, and DNN experts such as Ryan Lansing, and Will Strohl.

Last week was a DNN users group close to home in Boca Raton, check out the meetup page.

I am loving Florida!!!!! Hope to see you at the next user group event. Let's do some DNN, MVC, TDD, or some JQuery.

UroClub - Only Club That Will Keep You Out of the Woods

Sun, 15 Mar 2009 03:32:03 GMT

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Test Driven Development and DotNetNuke - OpenForce 2008

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:36:29 GMT

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!

Setting Up Windows Live Writer for DNN's Blog

Sun, 09 Nov 2008 17:46:02 GMT

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 a DNN Blog

step 3) Specify another blog Service

Step 4) Put in your blogs home page and user account details

Step 5) WLW wants your posting URL, so head over to your DNN site to get it...

Go to Your DNN site and page with the Blog Module, Login and go to to the Blog Settings

Step 6) on the Blog Settings, go to the section with the MetaWebLog information and Copy the posting URL

Step 7 ) Post this information into the Windows Liver Writer Screen

That's it, you should be ready to create nice posts in WLW and publish them to your DNN site.

Good Luck and Happy Posting!!

Jim

Westchester/Fairfield County Code Camp at UCONN Fall 2008

Sun, 09 Nov 2008 17:01:01 GMT

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 by Don Demsak. Don did a new talk on Business Intelligence for the .Net Guy. I was scared by the raw ado.net code and inline SQL required to get data from the MDX queries. I am not sure that I ready to jump into this area, but Don makes a good point that BI is an area in demand.

The second session I made was by a local develoepr Jason Sliss. Jason did a talk called, TDD LIVE. It was great!!! He did a quick intro to TDD and then walked the session through solving a real world business problem. It was stock price validation, a topic near and dear to me after working for Reuters for 18 Years! Jason showed TDD, refactoring towards patterns and had a very pragmatic approach to TDD - he certainly opened the door for more developers to do TDD

I ended the day with a pizza session and follow up session with Richard Hale Shaw. He is a great passionate speaker and did a Q&A for people on C# language features and then did the session on LINQ and LINQ to SQL. He really showed the value of LINQ and his extension methods were pretty cool also.

Thanks to Leo, Mark, and Louis from UCONN for a great event, I can't wait for next years, Watch out Philly - Here we Come!!!