Christopher Hammond
07.18.04
I was pointed to this temporary fix for .95 from ScottW. Hopefully I'll be able to upgrade my sites to use it, as well as upgrade the cDotText module early this...
Christopher Hammond
07.21.04
It's been a busy week at work! It's only wednesday and I am worn out already :)
I've also been helping a guy named Nick with a few projects his company is working on involving .Text and dotnetnuke. He's made some interesting changes and it looks like the site is getting some good activity. I'll see if I can't post a link to it later if he doesn't...
Christopher Hammond
07.21.04
I emailed the guys who run StlNet.org and asked about starting up a STL dotnetnuke users group.
Hopefully they provide some useful information which I can get started with. I'll probably get started on a web site for the group shortly, gauge some interest and try to get a first meeting setup.
Anyone interested? Post a comment here until I get the site...
Christopher Hammond
07.26.04
Something happened today and it appears to the database server that runs the www.asp.net site, along with www.dotnetnuke.com weblogs.asp.net forums.asp.net and quite a few other web sites has gone down. Hopefully it'll be back up soon! I think I'm going to try to bring all my blog posts over from weblogs.asp.net over into this blog when it gets back up, so I have control over all the...
Christopher Hammond
07.26.04
It's coming! And it's coming soon!
Community Server :: Forums
http://forums.asp.net/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=457242
Grats and THANKS to all the Telligent Systems...
Christopher Hammond
07.30.04
Did you know there's a web site for Vanden High School at VandenHighSchool.com? I set it up a few months ago now, still have quite a bit of work to do on it, but you can join now and start posting in the...
Christopher Hammond
08.10.04
I've gotten a few things updated on Vanden High School over the past week or so. I think I'm going to try to provide current school year info on the site, to make it more useful as an information source. I'll also be adding blogs to the site before the end of the week. Giving the students and past students of Vanden High School a place to blog on the...
Christopher Hammond
08.17.04
I'm still working on getting a STL dnn users group up and going. I've been talking with Scott Spradlin over at stlnet.org about doing a presentation at a STLnet meeting, will post more info when I know when that presentation might...
Christopher Hammond
08.29.04
What happens when you google for Chris Hammond? Well, you get mostly baseball news, one of my weblogs, and then some travel and photography pages for other Chris Hammond's out there.
I've been attempting to get my results up higher in the rankings for 9 months now, with quite a bit of success, but still unable to beat out ESPN for the #1 spot.
So today I was driving home and though of a new idea. “Google Me”
More on the idea later, but it looks like I have another idea for a project that won't generate any money :) ...
Christopher Hammond
09.02.04
I've published my article on the dotnetnuke Asp.net Forums V2 (CommunityServer :: forums) integration work that I've been doing for the past few days.
You can see the results in action at...
Christopher Hammond
09.29.04
I posted an update on the status of DnnCart tonight.
I'm also now looking into CodeSmith templates, see what all the hype is about, and how they will help me to build DnnCart better and stronger!...
Christopher Hammond
09.30.04
They've finally for the profiles up on dotnetnuke for the core developers! And guess who is in the mix? :)
Check it out
http://www.dotnetnuke.com/Default.aspx?tabid=698
For some reason though they haven't put my photo up, perhaps I'm too fugly to make it on the site!...
Christopher Hammond
10.03.04
Scott has an interesting post posing a question for URL rewriting (friendly URLs) in dnn 2.0. Another Scott (Mitchell, from 4 Guy From Rolla) writes about the topic as well.
It's going to be an interesting month, hopefully I'll be grabbing the code to dnn 2.2 from the source control account and start testing some things...
Christopher Hammond
10.07.04
Microsoft released an update to fix the ASP.Net vulnerability that has developers and ISPs up in arms this week.
You can read more about the update here.
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=887289
I updated the server and all the sites running on here seem to be functioning ok...
Christopher Hammond
12.05.04
True to my nature of needing change, I spent the past 30 minutes messing around with solo2.org. Gave it a minor make over. I've trimmed down the mast head by 50% to save space, changed the coloring of the masthead, removed the car photo for a little while as well. I also modified the coloring of the menu....
It was either do that, or buy another domain name and start up a new project... I swear I have...
Christopher Hammond
12.22.04
Well, I need to start generating some traffic to TwoPimps.com, so here is the official announcement and hopefully web spider link generator for TwoPimps.com!
TwoPimps.com is a new project that Butcher and I are working on.We are currently working on T-Shirt designs and have one design completed and in product testing! Look for more information on TwoPimps.com...
Christopher Hammond
01.19.05
I'm headed to the Springfield MO on Tuesday the 25th to give a presentation on dotnetnuke to the Springfield DotNet User's Group. I'll be covering the basics of dnn, and a little bit about the development process for dnn. Presentation starts around 6 I believe, I'll probably start around...
Christopher Hammond
01.31.05
This is going to be a busy week from the looks of things!
I'm thinking that there will be a release candidate coming from both Telligent Systems for their Community Server solution, and from the dotnetnuke team.
I've also been working heavily on DnnCart and a web site for a client. The Client's site is about finished and ready to go. DnnCart is getting close to being ready for an upgrade for SoloPerformance.com. I hope to have more of a test site for SPS up and running later this week for people to demo. Currently I have it running so that I can test and place...
Christopher Hammond
02.02.05
Well, somehow I have gotten back into doing web sites for friends! I'm currently working on 3, already setup one for Brian, setup one for Greg but need to tweak it to give it a good look and then train him on how to use it. I've also gotta set one up for Faye, but hers will have to wait till she buys a domain name, and so I can come up with a look/feel for her site as well. I'm using the new CommunityServer release from Telligent Systems for these sites, it allows for blogs/galleries/forums all in one app, and once I get the skinning down the sites will be pretty...
Christopher Hammond
03.16.05
I'm doing a Intro to dotnetnuke presentation at the St. Louis VB.Net user's group meeting this evening. Not sure how many folks will show up for the event, but I'll be there nonetheless. I'll most definitely be keeping the presentation trimmed down a bit more than the one I did in Springfield back in January. I tried to cover way too much information in the time alotted and went over by about an hour. Hopefully I can drum up some interest to get a dnn User's Group started here in STL so I can get working on...
Christopher Hammond
03.17.05
Last night's user group meeting ended up getting started around 6:20, maybe closer to 6:30. We left the building just after 9. I tell ya, my voice was about done with after those 2.5 hours, even though I had a glass of water there to try to help keep my throat going.
I covered ALOT of information, I felt a lot better about this presentation then I did the one I had in Springfield earlier this year. I tried to stay more in line with the Powerpoint (any interest to make that downloadable?) as to not veer off topic too far and cover some of the key features of dnn. After finishing up with the power point I started working more with an actual dnn install and showing the capabilities and how to use dnn out of the box. I really could have talked for another 8 hours on how to use dnn, I know this because I've done 3 days of training on dnn before, so trying to fit the key points and functionality into a few hours is tough.
Hope everyone walked away with a better understanding of dnn, and hopefully I generated some more local interest for the...
Christopher Hammond
03.25.05
I really need to read this and start working on some CS...
Christopher Hammond
03.29.05
I'm not going to do a full writeup here, but for those of you investigating the differences between dotnetnuke and MS CMS I have a bit of advice for you.
Don't bother dropping the $25k on a license for MS CMS, take a look at dotnetnuke, you can't really beat it's licensing costs, how does $0 sound? That's right, dnn is free to use. It's also, IMO, far more simple to develop for, as well as upgrade versions, it's very plug and play compatible with 100s of modules available on the net. Just try adding search into MS CMS, it'll cost you at least another $10k-$15k in fees, while with dnn you can use the standard search, build your own search, OR buy a dnn search enhancement online from NukeSmith.com for $17!
This is all, IMO as always, but coming from a developer who is currently working on a MS CMS project, I'd HIGHLY suggest going a different...
Christopher Hammond
04.14.05
I'm exactly the same place I started, I have nothing working.
Here's what I've tried
Install dnn 3.0.13
Install CS with the installer, without creating a community, without installing the membership roles, no sample data
Run cs_system.createcommunity trying to create a community with the applicationname of 0, which appears to be the dnn default app name
Install dnn 3.0.13
Install CS with installer, with a community, changed the appname in the cs web.config to 0 instead of dev (at least 3 occurances)
Run cs_system.createcommunity trying to create a community with the applicationname of 0, which appears to be the dnn default app name
Install CS with installer, create community
Install dnn 3.0.13 (dnn install failed)
Install dnn 3.0.13
Run CS SQL Scripts on DB
Run cs_system.createcommunity
Nothing of the above has worked, hopefully I'll have some more time to mess with things this...
Christopher Hammond
05.02.05
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If you're looking for jewelry, diamonds, gold, silver and engraving, in Eastern Missouri Krekeler Jewelers is the place to...