Meeting Archive

Message from Antonio Chagoury

It is through much deliberation, thought, and consideration that I announce that I am stepping down as the organizer of the Capital DotNetNuke User Group.

This decision was not made in haste; it has been on my mind for a while now. It also hasn’t been easy to finally let go of something that I created and nurtured for almost 7 years! This decision was a tough one to make.

Event Date: 05/24/2011
Time: 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM

Windows Phone 7 is Microsoft's big move in the mobile space and as we've come to expect from Microsoft, they've made sure the tooling, for creating awesome, compelling mobile applications for the Windows Phone 7 platform, makes development as easy and powerful as possible. This session will introduce you to the Windows Phone 7 development platform. What tools do you need? (they are all FREE!), how do I write a Windows Phone 7 app? Do I actually need to own a Windows Phone? (the answer is NO) to develop, test and sell apps in the MarketPlace. The session will include plenty of code. We'll use familiar tools (Visual Studio), Languages (C#), and Frameworks (Silverlight and MVVM) as we design and build a mobile application for this exciting new platform.

Speaker

Steve Fabian

Steve Fabian has been developing software for over 25 years in dozens of programming languages. From small utility applications to large scale core enterprise applications used by hundreds of thousands of users. Steve is a member of the DotNetNuke Core Development Team and Project Trustee, as well as the Project Lead for the DotNetNuke Repository Module and the Core Release Tracker Process.

Please register for this event @ Eventbrite http://cdug052411.eventbrite.com

 Event Date: 03/16/2011
Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

To kickstart the user group for 2011 we decided to organize something completely different than the usual, something ad-hoc and fun! That's right, on March 16th we will be meeting at On The Border restaurant in Tysons Corner (it's just one block away from our usual meeting place).

Any topic goes, any question goes... it's open mic at the DNN Social Hour and I'll be there at the receiving end trying to quench your thirst for anything DotNetNuke. This will definitely be fun, and I hope you're up for it.

Be there or be square!

Speaker

Antonio Chagoury
Antonio Chagoury is the CEO and Chief Software Architect of Inspector IT Inc (www.inspectorit.com), a .net and DotNetNuke solutions provider based in the Washington DC Metro Area. As a member of the DotNetNuke Core team and project lead of the Blog module as well as the Installer utility, he is an active contributor and supporter DotNetNuke and Open Source. Antonio Chagoury is a Microsoft MVP


Note
We will be using EventBrite for all of our future meetings.

Please RSVP on EventBrite as soon as possible so that we can make the necessary arrangements with the restaurant.

Please also note that food and beverages are not sponsored, we're going dutch on this one.

Just a quick update to all our CDUG members. We've taken a few months off for the holidays and the changing of the guard. But we will be back on the 16th of March with a slew of new topics and speakers.

A sneak peak at the speakers coming in the next few months (in no particular order.)

• Antonio Chagoury
• Steve Fabian
• Joe Brinkman
• Tom Kraak
• Joe Craig
• Jonathan Sheely

We hope to see you all there and ready to your own topics and concerns to the DotNetNuke table.

Abstract

Feel like you missed out by not attending the Day of DotNetNuke:Chicago? Well you did! But not to worry we will be doing a recap of the sessions and share what we learned and what inspired us.

After that we will hold a Q&A session where we can discuss problems you have been facing with DNN and get our community roundtable to help you solve them.

Some topics to consider are:

• How do I setup an Intranet for my company?
• How do I migrate from my old CMS to DotNetNuke?
• What are the best e-commerce stores for DotNetNuke today? or will that store allow me to do X?
• For us programmers out there: How do I utilize jQuery to enhance my website? 

Feel free to come up with your own questions or if you are excited about a particular way to solved a certain problem we'd love to hear about it at this months CDUG! 

Speaker(s)

Jonathan Sheely & Antonio Chagoury

Meeting Date: 9/15/2010

You'll learn how to create extremely optimized extensions utilizing callbacks which return data asynchronously to the client providing a near desktop application level of performance out of a standard DotNetNuke site.

Utilizing the Code Endeavor Templates from CodePlex, we'll create an advanced extension which will show off many new features for developers included in DNN5 (ControlMethods AJAX API, Custom MSBuild packaging tasks, and implementing jQuery plugins). 

 Greetings,

Just wanted to give you all a heads up that the August meeting for CDUG has been canceled due to scheduling conflicts with our speaker. 

If you're itching for your DotNetNuke User Group fix for the month I highly suggest that you watch / follow the St. Louis DNN User Group for their Hackathon starting tomorrow evening.

For details on the Hackathon check out the following resources.

• hackathon.in
• Dotnetnuke Community Hackathon

We look forward to seeing you back then at the Capital DUG in September!

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.