Meeting Archive

CDUG will not be holding a meeting for the month of July. Do to July being a very vacation heavy month we annually take July off for a little vacation ourselves and to make sure none of you miss anything. We will start things back up again next month.

We look forward to seeing you again!

The "Visual DotNetNuke" Hackathon focuses on building modules for DotNetNuke. The launchpad for the event will be the montly meeting of the Capital DotNetNuke Users Group in the Washington, DC metro area.

Visual DotNetNuke

Developers have an abundance of resources available to help them better understand DotNetNuke module development. Resources such as blogs, videos and books go into great detail on module architecture, the data layer and interacting with the DotNetNuke Core API. However, when it comes to developing DotNetNuke modules with rich, engaging and contemporary user interfaces, the resources are few and far between.

The "Visual DotNetNuke" Hackathon aims to give developers the knowledge and tools to create great-looking DotNetNuke modules that engage users and create a delightful user experience.

 www.NovaCodeCamp.org

Northern Virginia Code Camp (NoVa CodeCamp) will be held on June 12, 2010. The venue for this event is the Microsoft Office Facilities located at 12012 Sunset Hills Rd, Reston, VA. This is a free event with presentations on Cloud Computing, SharePoint, Visual Studio 2010, ASP.NET MVC and more!

Registration will be available on the week of May 24th.

Speaker: Steve Fabian
You've built a great DotNetNuke module, but now you want to make it available on mobile devices like an iPhone or Blackberry. This session will show you how to build an iPhone web app that exposes your module on the mobile platform. A native looking app that provides DotNetNuke security, module data, functionality and the interactive features you've come to expect from a mobile application.

Speaker: Mitchel Sellers
This presentation will introduce extension developers to the new manifest format that can be used when targeting 5.x for custom development.  Included will be a discussion of the new structure, features, limitations and gotchas to allow individuals to hit the ground running.

Presenter: Tom Kraak
Noted DNN SEO expert Tom Kraak was the featured presenter at the monthly Meeting of the Capital DotNetNuke User Group on February 18, 2009. Tom is a well known speaker and runs a widely respected blog that can be found at seablick/blog/tkraak . The presentation, “Search Engine Optimization (SEO) with DotNetNuke” included some of the basics of SEO along with the specifics of how to make certain that DotNetNuke (DNN) websites perform well with search engines.

Presenter: Steve Fabian
Everybody's #1 question when looking at DotNetNuke as a potential enterprise app framework... what about Workflow? What is it? How does it work? How could I use it in DotNetNuke. First, we'll cover the basics of the Windows Workflow Foundation, the workflow runtime, the workflow designer, business rules, versioning, dynamic workflow (xoml) vs compiled workflows. Then we'll look at some code and some options that you have to incorporate workflow into your DotNetNuke module.

Presenter: Jon Sheely
Ever wonder how other people are using DotNetNuke? If so then this meeting is just for you. This month we will be talking about how one development company implements DotNetNuke including all the phases of the DotNetNuke life cycle from: Hosting Environments, Default Configurations (you know those host settings we have to change every time as well as web.config changes), how we develop and deploy skins, 3rd party modules we use as a standard base, the optimizations we do for SEO and performance.

Presenter: Will Morgenweck
How can you make your site more “social”?  Do you want to improve communication with your customers?  Would you like to add more capabilities to your existing community?  Are social tools a good fit for your site, your users and for you?  We will look at what capabilities exist today within DotNetNuke along with administrative and maintenance tasks that you should consider.