Blogging over at dotnetnuke.com
I've started blogging over at DotNetNuke.com. I'll still use this blog for any kind of product release announcements, but all other topics will be on my blog at DotNetNuke.com. Here in case you haven't noticed my blog over there yet.
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Integrating Active Social with DotNetNuke
Active Social isn’t your typical module. When you take a closer look at the primary functional areas you will see 12 different modules. Some of those modules overlap with core modules that already exist. Some of those modules ...
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DotNetNuke Corporation Acquires Active Modules Inc.
I am pleased to announce that DotNetNuke Corporation has acquired Active Modules, including the intellectual property for our flagship products Active Forums, Active Social and Active Purchase. In addition, I have also joined DNN Corp as Direct...
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How we build our products and how you can help
Recently a customer accused me of building Active Forums, Active Social and Active Purchase to meet our own needs and not the needs of our customers. I say accused because I took great offense to that comment. While most people might say ...
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Active Social 1.9 - Updates for Messaging
We were planning to release Active Social 1.9 this morning until we found a bug with messaging that prevented messages from being sent. As I was trying to debug the problem I found a few other issues with messaging that also needed to be addres...
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A DotNetNuke Experiment - DNN Exposed
Several weeks ago I decided to conduct a small experiment with DotNetNuke and Active Forums 4.3. My goals for this experiment started off pretty simple: Setup a fictitious site using shared hosting, DotNetNuke 5.6 and Active Forums 4.3 Ent...
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Active Forums 4.3 Ready for Release
This afternoon we released the Release Candidate for Active Forums 4.3 Enterprise. We have also upgraded activemodules.com and activesocial.com to the latest release. Over the past 60 days we have posted 6 builds to 30 customers that requ...
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Using Active Forums for a Question and Answer site
In reply to my latest blog post, Mitch Labrador of TribalHut asked, "How would I setup Active Forums for a Question and Answer site?" Quite frankly, Active Forums is still missing a few key components, but we are getting closer. This is a...
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Using Active Forums as a Knowledge Base
Over the past couple weeks we have been working on layout options for the Knowledge Base sections of our forums. If you haven't had a chance to take a look at the Active Social Knowledge Base recently I would encourage you to do so. I hav...
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Using Custom Fields in Active Forums 4.3
One of the problems I have always had about with using a forum to handle customer support is not being able to structure or frame the initial request. A help desk allows you to capture certain fields and ask questions before a request is submit...
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Active Forums 4.3 just about ready
This past weekend I decided to have my own Active Forums hackathon. Friday afternoon I made a list of everything I wanted to accomplish for Active Forums 4.3. I reviewed the list a couple times, added a few items, removed a few more then ...
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Introducing Frowser - My DotNetNuke Hackathon Entry
When I first heard about the DotNetNuke Mobile Hackathon, I immediately wanted to write an app for Active Social. Well, I actually did do that first but then decided I should write something that would be more useful to more members of the DotN...
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Are you ready for the DotNetNuke Mobile Event?
Anyone running a DotNetNuke site should attend the DotNetNuke Mobile Event tonight. Even if you don't plan to participate in the Hackathon you should still plan to watch the event on-line. Events like this can help you start thinking abou...
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Active Social, Active Forums and DotNetNuke 5.5
Active Social 1.7, 1.8 and Active Forums 4.2 have been fully tested with DotNetNuke 5.5.
We are not aware of any issues at this time. DotNetNuke 5.5 has been in beta for over a month and it is obvious that the DNN Team is going to make ...
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Custom Journal Types and Access Control
Starting with Active Social 1.8, you will be able to create and allow other applications to add content to the journal. In my previous blog post I covered Journal Types and the purpose they serve for managing the journal content. In this ...
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Customizing the Active Social Journal
I know I said my next blog post would be about the Journal API, but we need to cover a few more items first. While this blog post isn't going to dive right into Journal API code samples, the information I will cover should be considered a prere...
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