By Michael Washington on 10/25/2009 7:20 PM

ADefHelpDesk does not really need an "Upgrade Advisor" but I made one anyway as a proof of concept for the DotNetNuke Core Project. There are thousands of users who do have difficulty upgrading DotNetNuke. My theory is that it should be possible to make a module that users could install before they do an upgrade that would identify potential upgrade problems.

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By Michael Washington on 10/11/2009 6:50 AM

Face it, Benjamin Hermann and his team's EALO is the "Tiger Woods" of DotNetNuke Open Source. It is the project that is so big and unstoppable that the rest of the DotNetNuke Open Source projects actually benefit from the traffic and attention that it brings.

As I pointed out in a previous blog (Effority is "King of the Forge), this module puts up numbers that are so big no other module comes close... at all.

In the spirit of "if you can't beat them join them" I have decided that since the "rest of the field" benefits from the success of "the leader" then it makes sense to help the leader.

Benjamin Hermann and his team (Oliver Dembniak and Johannes Ellenberg) plan to release another version of EALO for DotNetNuke 5 (the current version only works with DotNetNuke 4) on October 16th 2009. It would be great if EALO can get...

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By Ian Lackey on 10/9/2009 2:00 AM

I created a package and posted it to the CodePlex site associated with this series of articles. The package aims to allow you to easily implement the strategy outlined in Part 2 (Solidifying a Strategy) of these posts. This article will discuss how to integrate the code in the package with your existing ASP.Net site to allow links to be mapped between current urls and new Silverlight Deep Links. With the page mappings in place, you can effectively move your entire site to Silverlight while maintaining the links already indexed by the search engines. This also allows users that have not installed Silverlight and search engine bots to continue to use the original ASP.Net site.

A correction is needed for some information in the previous post. Apparently, I was mistaken about needing to require the...

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By Ian Lackey on 10/7/2009 10:40 PM

So thanks to the instructor (Kevin Grossnicklaus) of a Silverlight class I just attended, I have finally started to use twitter. Believe me, this was not an easy decision for me to make. I have seen many good people fall prey to the evil that is social networking sites. I must admit, I have made my fair share of jokes about the “tweeters” out there and had to eat a little crow when I told my wife that I signed up for an account.

The reason I was so resistant to twitter is all of the utterly useless information that is posted to that site. For example, I have no need or desire to know that someone is looking at a cloud shaped like a rabbit. I am sorry, but please do not clutter the information super highway with debris such as this. I mean, if I am next to you and you say “hey that cloud looks like a rabbit” that is great I will check it out. However, if you are in China and I am in the USA why do I need to know that?

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By Ian Lackey on 10/5/2009 9:34 PM

 So I do know that "ironic" is the right word for that fact that my first post after ... way too long ... is entitled "Remember Me?" but it fitting in more than one way.

Michael brought this post to my attention : www.dotnetnuke.com/Community/Blogs/tabid/825/EntryId/1784/a-new-solution-to-an-old-problem.aspx dealing with DotNetNuke's issue of not respecting the "Remember Me" checkbox when logging into a site.

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