On August 18th we kicked off the Mobile DotNetNuke Hackathon at the St. Louis DotNetNuke User Group . During the kick-off we had a great demonstration of Appcelerator Titanium from Kevin Whinnery . Kevin is an Appcelerator Engineer and Product Evangelist and it was clear from his presentation that he was both passionate and knowledgeable about Titanium. Almost everyone we spoke with was extremely interested in giving Titanium a try and the Hackathon was the perfect opportunity to kick the tires...

Last week we challenged DotNetNuke developers to create and submit applications for the latest DotNetNuke Mobile Hackathon . Entries had to have a mobile application component and a DotNetNuke component that allowed the mobile application and a DotNetNuke website to work together to provide a compelling mobile DotNetNuke experience for the user. Because the mobile development space is a bit new to many of us, we enlisted the aid of Appcelerator in sponsoring the event and giving a short demo of...

Last Wednesday night we kicked off the DotNetNuke Mobile Hackathon in St. Louis. The focus of this hackathon is developing applications that span the DotNetNuke and mobile application space. Participants have until the 6PM CST on August 25th to submit their entries. As we mentioned at the user group meeting, we have been working on a community application that allows DotNetNuke users to stay connected even when they are not in front of their computer. Starting today we are distributing the sour...

Last night we held the kick-off for the third in our DotNetNuke Hackathon series of events. Now that the user group meeting is over and the UStream event is through, we can focus on building some really exciting mobile applications for the actual Hackathon. The following schedule lays out the timeline for the remainder of this event: Deadline for Entries: Aug. 25, 6 p.m. U.S. Central (UTC -6) Voting Commences: Aug. 27, 9 a.m. U.S. Central (UTC -6) Voting Ends: Aug. 31, 6 p.m. U.S. Central (UTC ...

I am happy to announce the release of DotNetNuke 5.5. Since we first released Localization support in DotNetNuke 3.0, we have known that the story was not complete. With DotNetNuke 5.5, I am pleased to say we now have full localization support. This was one of the main features that we laid out in our DotNetNuke 5.x vision at OpenForce 2007 and was the last major feature missing from our original roadmap for the 5.x platform. Content localization in DotNetNuke 5.5 will allow you to easily manag...

This article is cross-posted from my personal blog . Background In preparation for the upcoming DotNetNuke Hackathon in St. Louis , I have been busy working on a new mobile application for the Android and iPhone platforms. Nik Kalyani and I have been playing with the Appcelerator Titanium product for the past several months and have been intrigued by it’s promise to allow you to quickly develop mobile applications for multiple platforms using the coding skills that many web developers already p...

Last year at OpenForce Connections in Las Vegas, Shaun Walker announced an updated release policy. The goal in 2010 was to move to a monthly maintenance release schedule along with Quarterly major releases. Prior to this policy announcement, releases were quite sporadic which made it difficult for our internal planning purposes, and also made it difficult for our users to schedule their own upgrade testing and deployment. When we first committed to this new release schedule, we knew that it was...

Ever since an updated version of Telerik assembly was shipped with DotNetNuke 5.4, people have continued to report that the Telerik assembly is missing from the \bin folder in the upgrade package. Given the number of reports related to this issue, it is clear that there is a lack of available documentation for how DotNetNuke is packaged. Some of these problems will be helped by the new wiki project that is being worked on by the Core Reference team. The wiki will provide a place where we can do...

Last night we posted another beta of DotNetNuke 5.5 which you can access from the beta release page on DotNetNuke.com. This is probably your last chance to provide feedback on the 5.5 release as we are nearing completion of the testing cycle. You can have a direct impact on the quality of the 5.5 release if you act today. Since the last beta release 2 weeks ago, the DotNetNuke team has been busy cleaning up bugs and validating the user scenarios for the new Content Localization feature. During ...

Like many other folks involved with Open Source, I will be attending OSCON 2010 in Portland, Oregon this coming week. OSCON is an annual convention for the discussion of free and open source software. It is organized by publisher O'Reilly Media and is held each summer in the United States. Last time I attended OSCON was in 2008 when DotNetNuke received a bursary for being one of the first open source CMS platforms to provide integration for OpenID. This time around there are no awards; however,...