Hi everyone. Its been quite a long time since I posted anything here and thats because I was on holiday and I intentionally avoided anything to do with tech stuff. Had a great time back home in India and left just before the tsunami chaos and although I live in chennai my home is quite far from the sea so there was no real danger. It was very scary to see the beach I had visited just a few days ago being completely covered over and wrecked.
Well, my holiday is getting over now and I'm getting back to work on Tuesday so I'm gearing up for it. I just downloaded the DNN 3.0.7 release and am going to install and start playing with it. Need to work on my church site using Rainbow too. At this rate, by the time I get it done, DNN 3.0 is going to be officially released and I'll probably migrate to it before going live.
Quite excited about getting back to work as I'm going to get my hands on a nice juicy new project. [I still dont know if it will be .NET or Java though !! ]. But I've got a whole lot of things planned for installing and learning Whidbey, posts on ideas for components and all that so this blog shouldnt be affected too much even if I do go and play with another technology for a while. Might help me appreciate .NET even more this way. This year was very good and full of hands on coding. Hope next year is similiar.
Here's wishing all of you a very Happy New Year.
Cheers
Benjy
Got a little time at last to play with DNN 3.0.5 (the second beta to come out in rapid succession and apparently there are more on the way). Lots of teething problems. It refused to load any of the httpModules saying they were already loaded, so I had to delete the entire section from my web.config file in order for the system to load. I also had to drop the entire database and allow the system to create a new one. I dont mind dropping the DB since its only a test db but having to delete all httpModules from the config file is not a nice thing.
I like the pages concept (dont know if thats new or if thats just me being thick and not seeing it in 2.1.2). Now if I can sort the menu requirements I have, that should have me chirping away happily for a long time.
Checked out Nina's site and found that there are some new skins to be expected for 3.x. There's so many new features in the system, its going to take a long time to get the hang of it. I came across a DNN training site which should help a lot in this regard. Its a bit like LearnVisualStudio where you have free membership and a frequent free video, as well as paid membership and access to more videos. I would have subscribed but the thing is they have a lot of stuff for 2.x and only a few for 3.x (obviously since its brand new), and Im not keen on 2.x anyway. So I'm going to check out the quality of the videos and then when theres more 3.x stuff, I'll upgrade my membership. I have a feeling that it would be a wise investment and that I'm going to be using a lot of DNN in future. May even ditch Rainbow at some time!!
Happy portal building!!