SoFried August Meeting - Roundtable Discussion - Why DNN vs Wordpress Roundtable Discussion - Why DNN vs Wordpress In this DNN meetup, we will have an open round-table discussion on a question we are often faced with, "Why DNN vs Wordpress?" Long-time DNN community member and original core team member, Nina Meiers, will be joining us from her humble abode in Australia and we hope many more of you will participate. This month, we are meeting at a new time to accommodate broader live attendance, so please do join us for what is sure to be a GREAT conversation chock full of highly useful information. August 25, 2017By Clint_Patterson SoFri Meetings Nina Meiers, WordPress Loading Disqus... Read More »
SoFried July Meeting - DNN Security Roundtable Discussion with Mitchel Sellers In this DNN User Group meeting, we discussed all things DNN Security! We were joined by Mitch Sellers of IowaComputerGurus plus had insight from Will Morgenweck of DNNCorp. We reviewed security recommendations and the security activity in the DNN community this summer. We also reviewed the recent announcements, vulnerabilities and had a round-table discussion that shared everyone's patching and update experiences. July 28, 2017By Clint_Patterson SoFri Meetings DNN Security, Mitchel Sellers, Patch, Security, Update Loading Disqus... Read More »
SoFried June Meeting - DNN Admin Platform with DNNSharp & Persona Bar Develompent with Scott Wilkinson Bogdan Litescu of DNN Sharp introduced us to their new product release, the DNN Admin platform. Bogdan described the tool which helps admin perform bulk management of multi-portal instances remotely, "Currently, most [people's manual] effort has been put into deploying updates - that is extensions, pages, entire portals or even parts of a portal. The solution is designed to be simple (so the person making deployments doesn't have to be a DNN guru) and scale from 1 to 10,000 portals with the support of bulk deployments. Scott Wilkinson of BlueBolt shared information on Persona Bar development from his DNNCon presentation in which Scott presented, "the most efficient and best practices for building and packaging a React Persona Bar extension, [and shows] practical examples of how to use the Persona Bar extension as a solution to a problem. June 26, 2017By Clint_Patterson SoFri Meetings Bogdan Litescu, DNN Admin Platform, DNNSharp, DotNetNuclear, Persona Bar, Persona Bar Development, Scott Wilkinson Loading Disqus... Read More »
SoFried April Meeting - DNN Doc Center With Lea Tesoro & DNN Prompt Extensions With Kelly Ford This month we were joined by Eleanor Tesoro from DNN Corp & Kelly Ford from KnowBetter. Eleanor discussed and reviewed the DNN Documentation Center & Kelly explained how to write custom DNN Prompt extensions. April 21, 2017By Clint_Patterson SoFri Meetings DNN Documentation, Eleanor Tesoro, DNN Prompt, DNN Prompt Extensions, DNN Storm Trooper, Kelly Ford Loading Disqus... Read More »
SoFried March Meeting - Dennis Shiao Interview + Ionic & JWT with David Poindexter In this meeting we had a nice conversational interview with Dennis Shiao of DNNCorp. Dennis discussed marketing & content marketing and the tools he uses. Then David Poindexter of nvisionative.com gave an in-depth presentation on DNN's JWT auth provider and demonstrated how he leverages it for mobile development with Ionic Creator. March 17, 2017By Clint_Patterson SoFri Meetings David Poindexter, JWT, Auth, Dennis Shiao, Ionic, Ionic Creator, Mobile Apps Loading Disqus... Read More »
SoFried February Meeting - DNN Performance & DNN Prompt This month's meeting was very interesting as we learned about performance in DNN from Matt Rutledge + a game changing tool for DNN administration called DNN Prompt by Kelly Ford. February 17, 2017By Clint_Patterson SoFri Meetings DNN Prompt, Kelly Ford, Matt Rutledge, Optimization, Performance Loading Disqus... Read More »
SoFried November Meeting - Securing DNN With PortalKeeper This month's meeting was packed with info on DNN Community announcements, DNN Summit, the "PortalKeeper" module, and a DNN 9. We learned a lot and had a good time. The meeting was sponsored by Managed.com. November 18, 2016By Clint_Patterson SoFri Meetings DNN 9, Managed.com, Portal Keeper Loading Disqus... Read More »
SoFried October Meeting - Evaluating Extensions: A Comprehensive Guide to Keeping Your Site Clean The original DNN Superfan and evangelist Will Strohl joined us remotely and gave a great presentation on keeping DNN sites clean and performant. To do this discussed theme, module, and overall site optimization October 14, 2016By Clint_Patterson SoFri Meetings Extensions, Minification, Performance, Will Strohl Loading Disqus... Read More »
SoFried September Meeting – Deploying to Azure & DNN Platform Announcements We had another great Southern Fried DNN User Group meeting last night. Our featured speaker was David Rodriguez of DNNCorp who gave us a great demonstration of deploying and managing DNN on Azure. Then Joe Brinkman who provided some community updates around DNN v9 and the Admin/Host area of DNN. September 16, 2016By Clint_Patterson SoFri Meetings Joe Brinkman, Azure, David Rodriguez, DNN v9 Loading Disqus... Read More »
Micro-Services, DNN Summit, and nvquicksite Updates We had another great user group meeting! We got DNN Summit updates from Cassidi Brickner, Joe Brinkman joined us to dive a little deeper into some of the micro-service work that Evoq is offering, and David Poindexter showed us some of the neat updates to nvquicksite. August 19, 2016By Clint_Patterson SoFri Meetings Cassidi Brickner, David Poindexter, DNN Summit, Joe Brinkman, Micro-Services, nvquicksite Loading Disqus... Read More »