Today, I’m working on getting BlogEngine.Net integrated into the Master Gardener website.
http://blogengine.codeplex.com/Thread/View.aspx?ThreadId=21461
http://blogengine.codeplex.com/Thread/View.aspx?ThreadId=18391
http://blogengine.codeplex.com/Thread/View.aspx?ThreadId=19881
Most of today consisted of learning about DotNetNuke (DNN). I watched several tutorials from DNNCreative Magazine. Most were quite outdated, however, they did provide a good understanding of the DNN structure.
I mainly focused on setting up the blogging module. I first installed the current version (3.5.1), and was frustrated by it not having some of the features that BlogEngine.Net has. After some googling, I discovered that version 4.0.0 RC3 is out on codeplex, so I installed that. So now I have more of the features I would like to see, i.e. categories, and cloud tags.
Today was a bust for any kind of web development learning activities. However, I did learn a few things about electronics! The morning started off by discovering our vintage Maytag Neptune Washing (MAH3000AWW) machine has stopped spinning out the clothes. So with sopping wet clothes in the washer, I began researching the problem.
After much googling, I learned that this is a very common problem with the Neptune. In fact, so much of a problem, that Maytag settled a class action lawsuit over it. Here are several great links if you happen to run across this post:
Installing DotNetNuke (free Community Edition) on my www.larrybrouwer.com development web server. My first thought was to use the Web Platform Installer in IIS, however, I opted out of this method as I wanted to gain a better understanding of what was actually occurring. So I downloaded it directly from the codeplex DotNetNuke download site.
There are several packages to choose from, I opted to go with the recommended download, which is the install version (no source code). Since I’ve already downloaded the source on my development workstation, I don’t need it on the server. The current version today is 5.3.1 released on 3/24/2010.
