DotNetNuke® Web Application Framework embraces ASP.NET 2.0

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So not only was Nov 7th the launch of VS 05 and SQL 05 but also DotNetNuke 3.2 & 4 ! From the DNN news letter “Nov 7, 2005 — Perpetual Motion Interactive Systems Inc., a premier Microsoft technology solutions provider, is pleased to announce the immediate availability of two new major release versions of DotNetNuke®, the premier open source Web Application Framework for the Microsoft ASP.NET platform. These releases bridge the compatibility gap between ASP.NET 1.1 and ASP.NET 2.0 and offer a number of powerful new application features.” See the full article here Time for…

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Windows Live - first impressions

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Justbeen playing around with the newly launched Windows Live www.live.com and my first impressions is, very nice! Integrating a search engine along with other things such as email and news feeds is just very very handy to me. Having RSS feeds and a good search engine integrated in one place, plus a simple, easy to navigate interface is just great. More thoughts to come soon 🙂…

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New generation of Microsoft Certifications

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Nigelblogged about the new generation of Microsoft Certifications here. It’s interesting that they are becoming more focused on skills …etc This presents me with a wee problem though, I am currently studying for MCAD and am not too far from sitting the first exam. Now the question is, should someone like me go through the entire 03 MCAD certificate or should I do the first exam and then start focusing on the new generation stuff?? I think I will go for both! Is that a good thing to do, what do you guys think?…

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How much is your blog worth?

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Nicblogged about the “How much is your blog worth” tool recently, showing that his blog is worth around 14k, not bad! Now trying this on my own blog shows that mine is only worth $0 🙁 I guess I should attempt to post more regularly and try and have posts that are of value to my blog readers… Here’s a promise from me to post at least once every week 🙂 and also post something of value. If you feel that I’m not keeping my promise, please do let me know. I know this is hard to do, but…

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A post about nothing!

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Well quite a few blog writers have been quiet lately including myself – cant find anything to post about at present and seems others have similar problems, most of the blogs I read have been quiet lately…. Hopefully new content will come soon!…

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More on GTalk

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As I mentioned earlier hereI will continue updating my experiences using GTalk every now and then. Now yesterday I ran into the most annoying thing in GTalk, this could put me off using GTalk for a loong while! One of the features I find very handy in MSN Messenger is the option to save conversations. Now unless I am somewhat blind, GTalk doesnt seem to have this option, very very annoying! I was in a conversation yesterday with someone and after the conversation ended, I wanted to check something from the conversation and bingo, it only keeps a history…

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Things a Smartphone cant do, at least mine can't

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So Telecom had their 3G network released for a while now and Vodafone have recently followed with theirs. Now there are a lot of good things that come with the 3G network, not all necessary features but all are cool! Now like me you may have thought that a Smartphone does everything one might ever dream of doing (at least IMO it does everything I need) so I confidently went to Vodafone and asked someone if Smartphones are 3G enabled and she said no, then I was like I’m sure they are capable of it so will they be…

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James is blogging - Cool...

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James Carpinter, the current Student Ambassador and my successor as a Student Ambassader, has now started blogging. He is currently looking for someone to replace him as a Student Ambassador as he is leaving university this year. Are you a student at Canterbury who is interested in this then let him know or let Paul Lo theAcademicAdvisor at Microsoftknow. The program is really great and there is a lot you can get out from it. Got any questions about the experience? ask me or ask James 🙂 Also, I took the Student Ambassador role one step furtherand…

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Rendering ASP.NET controls in non MS Browsers

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Probably all of you know that stuff already but for those that dont. ASP.NET by default does not treat non MS browsers as uplevel browsers leading to ASP.NET controls being rendered incorrectly. Well the solution for that is to include browser caps in the .config files of the application. Here is a great article that explains all about this, and here is a browserCap section already written to handle non MS browsers including many of the unfamiliar ones.…

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