While setting up an installation of DNN for a client I ran into an issue of not being able to display the Image Gallery from within the FCK Editor on an HTML/Text Module.  My first instinct with this was that I did not have read permissions on the "/Portals/0/" folder within the DNN...

One of the big complaints that I have seen over the years with DotNetNuke has been the horrible URL’s that get produced by the framework.  This is a problem that is part of most dynamically created content on the web, not only DotNetNuke.

For the successful Content Management Systems, they have come up with ways to make these ugly URL’s more human friendly.  DNN did this back in about version 3.0 with the introduction of Friendly...

BlogEngine.NET has released a theme pack that is compatible with the version 1.4 and 1.4.5. 

The theme pack contains themes designed and created by the community, and they have been brought together as a downloadable theme pack.  Janko has compiled them together for the community to use.

Download the BlogEngine.NET theme pack here.

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Shaun Walker creator of DotNetNuke is featured this week on Twit.tv.  In episode 41 of their weekly...

The latest release of the News Feeds module has made it through the project release cycle.  Peter Donker made the announcement on 8/24/2008.  He has chosen to completely rewrite the module to provide us in the Community with some very interesting options moving forward with this module.

The first one is Aggregation

The module uses a new version of the RSS Toolkit located at CodePlex.  This toolkit allows the module to aggregate feeds of different types together as one feed.

The...

Hector Sosa of SystemWidgets has released a Windows Winform application that allows you to modify the User database in DotNetNuke. I’ve checked out the screen shots and it looks interesting and useful.  There is a download for the binary files as well as the source of the application.  More information can be found at his blog.

Hector Sosa Blog

On Monday, AjaxDataControls 1.0 was released. This library was developed to work with ASP.NET Ajax Extension. This project's main goal was to develop some rich data controls, to allow replacement of the core ASP.NET controls and provide client-side...

While getting started with a new project and hopefully successful business venture.  One of the first things I did was to install the latest version of DotNetNuke 4.8.0.  The install went flawless as usual with DNN.  One of the things I love of the newer releases of DNN was the ability to test at each stage of the install.

During the initial install of DNN it checks to see if the database is at the same version as the DotNetNuke...

While reading through my blog posts this morning I ran across an entry for Live Documents.  This looks like a very interesting tool.  It's currently in closed beta and is by invitation only.  This tool is currently being developed under the leadership of an experienced web entrepreneur Sabeer Bhatia. Some people will recognize that name as one of the founders...

After being involved in the IT business for close to 15 years now.  It continues to baffle me at how few businesses in Nova Scotia actually get technology.

With the use of such sites as Facebook and MySpace getting such wide spread use in our homes today.  The use of Messaging services such as MSN Messenger and Yahoo Messenger...

Microsoft has released Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 to the public for anyone interested in testing out what is coming to developers in the future.

Their download page found here, contains information about the new visual studio as well as downloads for the Standard, Professional, Team Suite and Team Foundation Server.  They have provided installation images as well as VPC images to get you up and running quickly with the product.

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