http://www.unthinkability.com/?p=200 Scott Fletcher has cast me as Simplex.  Read on........

I definitely want to hear Roger Jennings' story! Roger, your turn!!

Jeff Attwood has a post on possibily the greatest man in the computing age, Alan Turing. As Jeff states during WW2 Alan helped break the enigma code and went on to become one of the fore-fathers of AI.  There are several books on Alans life that are well worth reading with the Andrew Hodges book one of the best. Alan is one of personal heros, some of Alans greatest work in computing occured in the very place I was born and grew up in. After the war Alan conducted resear... [read more]

I’ve put a bunch of images in a flickr set in case you want to use them in your blog or web site.

Jeff Atwood had a great post a while back called "Strong Opinions, Weakly Held." It's good to feel strongly about something, but important to be open to changing your opinion if you're faced with new evidence. Last week a reader pointed me to this post at the Microsoft StyleCop blog that shows some interesting examples of using directives outside and inside the namespace declaration. For example, this compiles fine: using Guid = System.Guid;namespace Microsoft.Sample{ public clas... [read more]

Since launching DevMavens this week, I've had a few folks tell me they didn't previously know what a maven was.  The site shows some definitions, but the concept that led to my choosing that name is from the excellent book, The Tipping Point: The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference Mavens are one of the key players that Gladwell describes in this book about the way ideas are spread and certain products catch on.  Wikipedia has a summary of some of the book'... [read more]

I've been called out by Shawn Wildermuth to answer a bunch of questions about how I got started in programming, etc. I've done that over here and called out 5 more folks as well. [A New DevLife Post]

One of the changes made in MbUnit v3 alpha 3 was support for the Visual Studio Team System test runner. As Jeff points out, we are the first to offer this kind of support. At the moment the support is experimental but we will be driving foward more in the coming weeks and months. You will need to install MbUnit v3 alpha 3, if your upgrading from v2 to v3 there will be some compatability issues (I'll cover these in a later post). Take this simple test  Make sure you have MbUnit and Gal... [read more]

Jeff has news on a couple of updates to the MbUnit v3 beta 3 release including.  R# 4.0 final support Factory attribute support Repeat and ThreadedRepeat attributes support CSV data source metadata Pex support Contract verifiers The R# 4.0 support does mean that you can run MbUnit 3.0 and 2.0 in R# but if you prefer you can work directly with MbUnit v2.0 (rather than through Gallio) via Alberts plugin. My thanks to Jeff and the whole team, who have worked hard to help ... [read more]

Once again Madgex have provided us with a social space for ReMix UK 08 – the remix backnetwork. We’re planning this to be the hub of the conversation not only leading up to the conference, but also during and after; we really want the conversation to flow. What does the backnetwork give us? A central location for the social side of the conference; once you signup there are forums where we can start the conversation, a chance to find out what we’re planning, what you’re interested in, what the ‘... [read more]

 

The next major release of DotNetNuke, DNN 5 or DNN Cambrian, is well on its way with Beta 5 currently in testing stage. Over the past few weeks I have spent many hours excitedly learning and documenting the numerous changes to the way Administrators and Hosts use the core functionality. At this point I’m guessing that this bevy of fabulous changes will to require the largest rewrite and expansion of the DNN Online Help to date.

In May I added a Feedback module to the DNN Online Help page requesting feedback on how to improve the online help experience, and to enable content errors or omissions to be reported. Firstly, many thanks to those community members who did provide feedback and report errors – it is great to get an outsiders perspective. Unfortunately, after a one month trial I found that I was receiving around 60 questions on how to complete tasks each week. I included a large notice on the module advising that... [read more]

Interesting results when looking at DotNetNuke.com using the Google Trends. India is a close second behind the United States. I am sure this is a surprise to a lot of people except those from India :)  When you look at adefwebserver.com (my site) you see that the biggest visitors are not from the United States but from... India. So let me say Hello India! As to the releated searces it's nice to know adefwebserver.com made the list but still far behind sites like mitchelsellers.com. When I look a... [read more]

Many of you know that I grew up in England.  As a result I enjoy watching Football (Soccer to you North Americans). On Sunday I watched the European Championship final in HD on my 46" LCD TV - that was cool, and I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate all the Spanish football fans in the DotNetNuke Community on the victory of their team. During my vacation in Italy I found it difficult to keep up with the early group play (although Italy's results were plastered across the media), ... [read more]

I am rewriting the Help module and am doing it TDD style.  As I was writing a test to check the adding of a tutorial to the db I realised that what I really wanted to do was not only add the tutorial but also the list of associated category IDs.  So I did a bit of research and came up with this.  There is now a new parameter on the Help_AddTutorial sproc that takes an xml field.  The XML is a list of the categories.  The XML is then parsed and added to a temporary table which is then used to add... [read more]

It has been a while since I have taken over as team lead for the Documents Module project and I wanted to provide everyone in the community an update on the status of the module. I have re-formed the team which currently consists of myself and Ted Ogrean.  We are currently working on a number of items that have been identified in the current module as well as working in a few small enhancements to ensure that our next release not only resolves the outstanding issues but provides a bit of new fun... [read more]

The FCKeditor is used extensively throughout DNN enabling Module and Page Editors and Administrators to create, format and manage content for modules such as the Text/HTML and Announcements module, as well as compose newsletters, notification messages and more. Whilst the standard layout and functionality of the FCKeditor (pictured below) will suit most needs, Administrators have the ability customize one or more instances of the FCKeditor.

I've blogged before about how to make timeouts work correctly for persistent cookies, but thought I should also flag up a minor, but often requested, enhancement that will be in DotNetNuke 5.0. Whilst persistent cookies are useful for a lot of sites in some cases they're not approriate. Sites that require a higher level of security such as many financial, insurance, government or ecommerce sites often do not want to offer the choice of persistent cookies to their users - we've had a number of se... [read more]

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, I've been presenting at user groups over the past 3-4 years talking about everything DotNetNuke and with this new honor look forward to increasing the number of groups I can visit. I am definitely not limited to DNN, but do have qu... [read more]

I’m sitting down enjoying a stale muffin (seriously, it might be stale, but it is yummy) and a cappuccino waiting for the Perth .NET User Group to start. I am doing a 15 minute demonstration tonight on Unit Testing Workflows. I just finished up an engagement with a client today as well so I am feeling [...]

I was literally in the middle of writing the post when I saw a message from Andrew Davey about how he had implemented the same idea! Of course, his is way better, so I got to code via subtraction. That means subtracting out the crap I had written in a few minutes and dig into his code. There are no unique ideas, right? ;) Either way, it's fun when the same idea is being thought about simultaneously. Here's the general concept. A few weeks back I was talking with Avner Aharoni, a Language Pro... [read more]

For a while I have seen where a setup will fail to build in a solution and there will be no errors to explain why it failed (My favorite type of failure!). When you look in the output folder the installer msi file is there. Today we had that happen on a solution and when we used the setup we were getting an error during the actual install on the target machine.  Turns out to be not related at all, however, it got me digging around trying to figure out what caused the build to fail.  I... [read more]

I picked up the print version of Domain Driven Design Quickly on Amazon recently.  I didn't realize at the time that it was also available as a free e-book, which wouldn't have stopped me from buying except for the fact that it's less than 100 pages and $30!  That's a bit pricey, in my opinion, for what is essentially Cliff Notes of a larger, more in-depth book (at least, that's what I'm lead to believe).  I'm about halfway through the book and while the content is good, the numbe... [read more]

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