Entries for 'Ian Robinson'

Dang and I are doing a presentation next week at Open Force entitled “UX in DotNetNuke: Designing Your Applications the Right Way.” One of the challenges we face as presenters is making sure we attract the right people and set their expectations appropriately as to what the actual content of the presentation will be. While our title and description are accurate, it may be helpful to go into more detail. To start, here is our presentation description, as appears on the Open Force 2009 web site: ...

“Why DotNetNuke?” is a question that comes up a lot from people with all different backgrounds; from project managers, developers and designers, to CTOs and CEOs. dnnGallery was launched to feature high quality DotNetNuke sites from the community, with the hope that all of these people asking "Why DotNetNuke?" would be helped by actually seeing some of the great things you can do with the framework. It's in that spirit that we're asking the community to share their reasons for using DotNetNuke....

In Improving the Secured File Download UX for Unauthenticated Users I elaborated on a workaround hack to display a friendly error message and redirect to the login page when trying to access a file that had been through DotNetNuke's file ticket system. If you're in a situation where that solution makes sense for you - great. But what about future releases of the application? Should this functionality exist within the framework itself? Is it too trivial? Does it make sense for everyone that uses...

DotNetNuke has extensive security features. One of which is enforcing role based permissions when accessing files. The general workflow is to say that "Registered Users" get to see a particular file, you then create a link to that file using DNN, and as a matter of course, the roles are enforced. This uses what's known as a file ticket to request the file, so that it is not linked to directly. This is great if you are only providing those links to currently authenticated users. However, if you ...

While helping with the content for our DotNetNuke OpenForce Post Training Conference, I came up with a tongue-in-cheek (yet still kind of serious) listing of symptoms of a flawed DNN module development process. Recognize any of these? Your latest DNN module utilizes in-line CSS like it was going out of style. You frequently need to release new versions due to changes that consist solely of updates to hard coded strings in your code-behind. Every time you implement your modules a...

I've installed a lot of DNN sites in the last couple of years, but this task just got even easier! http://www.microsoft.com/web/channel/products/WebApplicationInstaller.aspx The Web Application Installer Beta is designed to help get you up and running with the most widely used Web Applications freely available for your Windows Server. Web AI provides support for popular ASP.Net and PHP Web applications including Graffiti, DotNetNuke, WordPress, Drupal, OSCommerce and more. With just a few si...