Recently I decided it was time to come up with a refreshed look from my blog. Since I use DotNetNuke to power my blog and my company's site, it meant that I had to build it in the form of a DotNetNuke Skin. Skins are not as simple to design as simple HTML pages, because, among many other things, one has to be knowledgeable enough with what DotNetNuke content tokens generate, and testing is not as simple as you would think. I had defined a few goals to abide by in the new design, and they were: It had to be simple It had to be clean It had to be CSS layou... [More]

My company, Inspector IT, Inc. is proud to support OpenForce ‘08 and the DotNetNuke Corp by offering free product licenses. The free licenses will be raffled off to OpenForce ‘08 attendees during an evening event (To be announced). 3 product license will be raffled off for DNN Site Map and 3 other for DNN Dock Menu. Are you coming to OpenForce ‘08? If so, you may be one of the lucky 6 to win one of the following modules: DNN Site Map™ (3 Licenses) Look again, this is not just another Site Map. DNN Site Map™ is more that just another menu, it is a DotNetNuke Tab ... [More]

I am currently working on a new skin for my Blog, as well as revisiting the overall user experience of this site. Since I Tweet quite a bit, I figured that displaying the list of my latest 5 Tweets would be a neat idea. A couple of thoughts came to mind, including writing a module that would consume the Twitter API to retrieve my tweets. After doing some researching around, I found that there is a much much, much simpler way to do this with a little (already provided) JavaScript. First, add the following html UL element somewhere on your page: <div id="twitter_div... [More]

I was updating my professional profile on LinkedIn the other day, and I realized that there was a lot missing about what I do. In essence my profile contained a lot of the stuff I did for a living, but not was lacking all the work I do on volunteer basis. All the community contributions such as speaking, organizing, writing etc, was left out all together. I decided to start compiling a list of my community contribution and while I am sure I missed some things, here is what I came up with so far: Open Source Projects DotNetNuke Core Team Member DotNetNu... [More]