DotNetNukeBlogs.com has been updated to the latest release of DNN 05.01.03, the upgrade went very smooth and the site seems to be running even better. The site is also running a prerelease version of Engage: Publish that also has a number of performance fixes as well.
I got some feedback from JoeSak today about the RSS feeds here on www.dotnetnukeblogs.com, the feeds were having the HTML formatting stripped out of the descriptions when they were built. I've removed that functionality so that all the HTML formatting should included with the feeds now.
I got some feedback from JoeSak today about the RSS feeds here on www.dotnetnukeblogs.com, the feeds were having the HTML formatting stripped out of the descriptions when they were built. I've removed that functionality so that all the HTML formatting should included with the feeds now.
It might take Feedburner a bit to catchup on this new formatting though.
This morning I made some minor tweaks to DotNetNukeBlogs.com this morning. We now have a new category for Japanese DNN Blogs. You can get the RSS feed from the links on our pages with the other categories now as well.
I've also modified the RSS feeds to include the author information in the feed, I'm still waiting for Feedburner to propagate these changes to verify they work, but it should make it easier when subscribing to our feeds to see who made the blog post before clicking on the link in your RSS Reader.
For the past few months I've been working on a project in my freetime (what free time) that I am proud to say has finally been launched!
Check it out at DotNetNukeBlogs.com. The goal of the site is to provide a single source providing links to the best DNN blog posts across the web.
Another quick site update tonight as we prepare for an official launch on Thursday July 3rd. I made some tweaks to the Engage: Publish module to better display content from an administration point of view with regards to the blog post approval process that we are utilizing here in the early stages of DotNetNukeBlogs.com.
I'm proud to announce that Lee Sykes and Mitchel Sellers have both signed up and added their very information DNN blog feeds to the collection here on DotNetNukeBlogs.com as well! Thanks to both of them for their great efforts in the DNN Community.
A good friend of mine, Chris Hammond, has just recently launched DotNetNukeBlogs.com with a little design effort I put out. The purpose of the site is to aggregate DotNetNuke-related blogs with the hope to provide users a more focus approach to find information.
I first created a few design mock-ups and sent them to Chris, he wasn't thrilled with the color scheme to we came back to stick with the default DotNetNuke color scheme approach.
The site purpose is to house information from different sites, especially blog posts. So I try to stay with something simple and provide more real estates to accommodate the content.
After the site was designed, I took the XHTML/CSS skinning apporach to it. The site is now running with a CSS layout approach and using HouseMenu from Tim Rolands. It has been tested all most of the modern browsers and appeared to be working properly.
Today is the day that DotNetNukeBlogs.com goes public! We'll be making some official announcements later today on various DNN and ASP.NET related sites, but for those of you who made it here early you can try the site out and let us know what you think!
A big thanks to our fellow administration Cuong Dang for getting our new skin created and applied to the website this weekend. We've got a few more tweaks to make to the site/content and should be making some launch announcements here soon!
I spent some time tweaking Engage: Publish and the "Consumer" module that I've written for consuming RSS feeds. I noticed a problem with pulling in RSS Items by trying to compare date/times. So instead of consuming items based on the datetime, we're now looking to see if an item already exists based on the title of the item and the author id. Ultimately I think it will require modification to check for both dates and titles, but for now we can remove any items that show up because of a simple title change.