January SoFried Meeting - DNN Module Licensing - A Roundtable Discussion This month we brought together ideas, experiences and opinions from around the DNN ecosystem to discuss the state and nature of DNN Modules and the Licensing methods that have been used in the past, that are available today, and discuss ideas for the future. January 22, 2018By Clint_Patterson SoFri Meetings DNN Module Licensing, DNN Modules, Mandeep, Module Licensing Loading Disqus... Read More »
November SoFried Meeting - Module Dev Best Practices, Managed.com Control Suite, Mandeeps.com Live Exchange & Live Forums IN this meeting we discussed and reviwed Module Dev Practices with Will Morgenweck, the Managed.com Control Suite demoed by Ryan Moore, and got a preview of Mandeeps new modules Live Exchange and Live Forums. It was another great meeting. Thanks to the team at Managed.com for sponsoring this month's meeting! November 21, 2017By Clint_Patterson SoFri Meetings Managed.com, Mandeep Singh, Mandeeps.com, Ryan Moore, Will Morgenweck Loading Disqus... Read More »
October SoFried Meeting - DNN Continuous Delivery with VSTS and Azure Using Visual Studio Team Services and Azure to provide CI and CD builds that deploy your website and custom modules out to Microsoft Azure with automatic Module Versioning. We will take a deep dive at configuring VSTS with a decoupled module development environment and DNN website. How to merge all the code bases together and deploy a final solution to an Azure Web App for both Staging and Production environments that include 1 click deploys. October 22, 2017By Clint_Patterson SoFri Meetings Andrew Hoefling, Azure, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Integration, Visual Studio, Visual Studio Team Services, VSTS Loading Disqus... Read More »
SoFried September Meeting - URL Redirects + What's Next with nvQuickSite + DNN Corp Webinar Post-Game URL Redirects We all have the need for URL redirections whether we recognize it or not. Perhaps we need shorter, more easily memorable, URL’s or maybe we’ve gone through a site migration and need to implement redirects to maintain existing SEO results. Regardless of the scenario, we all leverage the ability to redirect URLs. In this session Ryan Moore of Moore Creative Company will lead a discussion around URL redirects and DNN. He will discuss and review DNN modules and tools used to handle redirects in different ways along with discussing real world scenarios they’ve encountered in the past. If you’ve ever wondered about what’s possible with URL redirection in DNN then this is the meeting to attend. What’s Next With nvQuickSite? Have you ever had to install DNN? Did you do it with nvQuickSite? If you didn’t then you may have taken longer than needed. nvQuickSite is a great tool for installing DNN created by our very own David Poindexter of nvisionative. The DNN Community loves nvQuickSite and uses it all the time to help make installing DNN more efficient. In this brief session David is going to lead the discussion and give us a preview of what’s just around the corner for nvQuickSite. We are excited to hear and see what’s on the roadmap for nvQuickSite. September 26, 2017By Clint_Patterson SoFri Meetings David Poindexter, DNNCorp Webinar, nvquicksite, Ryan Moore, URL Redirects Loading Disqus... Read More »
Options for URL Redirects in DNN In today's Southern Fried DNN User Group meeting, I'm going to go through an overview of that DNN Core version of the iFinity URL Rewriter as well as discuss two DNN Modules which help with redirect handleing and settings, as well as a set of Web.Config edits to help your DNN site handle other types of extensions for 404 processing such as html and jpg files. September 21, 2017By moorecreative DNN Topics, SoFri Meetings dnn, error 404, ifinity, redirect, rewrite, url, url redirect, url rewirte, web.config Loading Disqus... Read More »
Setting Simple SSL with Cloudflare + DNN If you need to quickly setup SSL for a DNN site for marketing and Google SEO purposes and need a quick setup without the delay/processing of a standard SSL certificate, these tips can help get one running for your DNN portal quickly with CloudFlare September 14, 2017By moorecreative DNN Topics, General cloudflare, DNN Security, dnn seo, google seo, SSL Loading Disqus... Read More »
SPECIAL EDITION - Interview with Andy Tryba, New CEO @ DNN Corp In this DNN special edition meetup, we sat down with Andy Tryba, the new CEO of DNN Corp, post-acquisition by ESW Capital. In an August 25, 2017 DNN community blog post by Joe Brinkman, Andy was quoted as follows. "For over a decade, the DNN open source community has been instrumental in delivering solutions that customers value. I look forward to embracing the community further to accelerate innovation and re-energize the power of open source." – Andy Tryba August 30, 2017By moorecreative SoFri Meetings Andy Tryba, DNN Corp, ESW Capital Loading Disqus... Read More »
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 »