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Meeting This Week: March 20 6:30 PM - (Eastern)

The Southern Fried DNN (Topic TBD) is almost here! Make sure you join us for all the fun / info on March 20 at 6:30 PM!

Southern Fried DNN User Group Meeting - Update, Next Meeting 3/20/25

A brief note to let everyone know that we'll have our next SoFri meeting the third Thursday in March. This gives us time to recoup from DNNSummit travel, workload, and prep for discussions on DNN 10 and recent community updates! Please be sure to join us online!

March 20 SoFri Meeting Info
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Southern Fried DNN Blog

Southern Fried DNN User Group (Formerly Queen City DotNetNuke User Group QCDUG) blog covers DNN topics addressed by the usergroup at meetings, conventions and for the DNN community for North Carolina, South Carolina and the DNN community at large!
 

November 2024 SoFri: Panel Discussion - Utilizing DNN CMS in 2024

DNN is a robust feature-rich CMS in the .NET ecosystem. In this Southern Fried DNN meetup, we will have a panel of DNN community leaders, developers and guests discuss the state of working within, maintaining, and selecting DNN as an application development platform for their projects in 2024.
 

Don’t Throw Away What Isn’t Broken! Real Values of Staying with DNN for Your Website CMS

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When it comes to maintaining and improving your DNN website, there's a lot to consider. You may feel pressure to migrate to a new platform simply because it’s been a few years since your last major update. However, there's immense value in staying with DNN and refreshing your existing site. Instead of starting from scratch, updating your DNN site can provide security updates, performance improvements, and modern design features you need, all while preserving the investments you've already made.
 

June 2022 SoFri: DNN Security Headers - From an "F" to an "A" Grade!

SoFri's Ryan Moore leads a working session to explain and demonstrate several security header settings which can be made to the DNN web.config, which helps with the overall site security and presentation footprint. He'll explain items, plus shares code and testing tools involved.
 

July '21 - David Poindexter (DNN Strategy) & Daniel Valadas ("I Like Vanilla!")

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July 2021's Southern Fried User Group Meeting - David Poindexter talks about bringing overall strategic direction for the DNN Platform project and coordination between all leadership teams. Daniel Valadas presents a new minimal theme that uses vanilla CSS and JavaScript without any frameworks (like Bootstrap) or libraries
 

CloudFlare + DNN + SoFried

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At this month's Southern Fried DNN meeting, Ryan Moore and David Weinstein lead a discussion about the uses of CloudFlare for DNN sites. Ryan introduces CloudFlare concepts and a look at CloudFlare SSL pros/cons and setup steps, individual CloudFlare settings, and the Cloudflare rules which benefit DNN sites. David discusses using CloudFlare for disaster recovery and migration scenarios.
 

Jan 2021 SoFri - The Abundance Principle - DNN Open Help

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Need some help with anything related to DNN? Bring your questions (and answers) to this meetup and we'll help each other out! Our community has always thrived on this principle of abundance, giving back, helping others, sharing ideas and code. This is your chance to finally crack that nut you've been trying to crack for so long. Let's have some fun together and build more bridges instead of walls!
 

SoFried July Meeting - SuperCharged DNN with Oliver Hine’s nBrane Suite

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Want your DNN site to be more performant? Consider trying Oliver Hine’s nBrane suite of products. In this meeting Oliver, The DNN Surgeon, gave us an overview and walkthrough of the suite of products. Whether you’re running a small static site or a large site in a web farm, nBrane can help your DNN site be faster
 
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