By erik van ballegoij on Wed, 17 May 2006 18:33:57 GMT

Monday May 16 and Tuesday May 17 I attended the SDC in Papendal, Netherlands, as a speaker in the DotNetNuke Track. My session was about creating hybrid module/skin objects. I showed how to make a module that can also be used as a skin object. I will post the original code soon (i have to rename it, because i found out just a day before SDC that there is already another skinobject with the same name), and will add some extra features as well in the near future.

I'm very pleased i got a chance to meet Shaun Walker, Vicenç Masanas, Sebastian Leupold. There were 10 sessions about DNN in 2 days, 3 by Shaun, 3 by Vicenç, 2 by Ernst Peter Tamminga, 1 by Peter Schotman and 1 by me. We had a room with 32 seats to our disposal, some sessions where full house, others a bit less. One of the sessions of Vicenç turned into a discussion on Content Localization in the DNN Core application so that was very usefull.

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By erik van ballegoij on Tue, 21 Feb 2006 09:20:29 GMT

Its somewhat disturbing to find google to suggest to use a different spelling of your name....

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By erik van ballegoij on Fri, 10 Feb 2006 04:07:05 GMT

I thought I'd write up a small tutorial about how to use the Apollo PageLocalization Module, as this module has proved to be somewhat difficult to manage for site administrators new to dynamic localization

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By erik van ballegoij on Tue, 04 Oct 2005 20:56:21 GMT

Oh well, administering your site is not always easy. I was setting up a new domain on my server, making use of plesk. The site that had to run on the new domain i developed on my dev server, so it was just a matter of uploading the db, uploading the files, fixing web.config, and fixing the portal aliases..... however, what i did was, inadvertedly, change the web.config of my own site to look at the db of the new site.

 

Funny enough this didnt work at all, and i didn't know i did that until some...

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By erik van ballegoij on Tue, 04 Oct 2005 08:38:29 GMT

After a few days of thorough testing, i released version 2.0 of MLLanguageSelector yesterday. Yesterday evening i had a last strugle with a nasty bug. One final test revealed that when logged on as administrator, the dropdown menu did not work anymore.

 

I still haven't found out what was the cause of that error, but i removed some code i put in to notify administrators about the fact that some languages are mapped (only if language mapping was active). Somehow this code interfered with the menu,...

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By erik van ballegoij on Thu, 29 Sep 2005 15:24:59 GMT

After a long time of inactivity with the MLLanguageSelector, betatesting has started vor version 2.0 now, and release is set for October 3th.

New features are:

rendering is now done in tables, tables can be formatted with module.css file added support for module.css for skinobject added option to display flag for current language when menu is used newly created flags for all countries supported by DotNetNuke Language selector can now map one language to another. ...

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By erik van ballegoij on Wed, 28 Sep 2005 05:18:53 GMT

DotNetNuke and SQLServer don't always work together in the best of ways, especially if the system culture of the webserver is different from the language setting in sql server. If this is the case, then some modules will have problems saving datetime values to the database. For instance, if the database is expecting German type dates (dd.MM.yyyy), and DNN is sending US type dates (MM/dd/yyyy), in the best case dates will be saved with wrong information (reversed day and month), and in the worst case an error...

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By erik van ballegoij on Sat, 24 Sep 2005 16:47:25 GMT

I'm quite thrilled about the fact that i've been accepted as member of the DotNetNuke Blog subproject.

I am going to spend the next couple of days to get thoroughly (re)-acqainted with the module, the last time i looked at the code was when it (or rather its ancestor) was called Trefynet MyBlog, for dnn 2.1.2, so i have a bit of catching up to do.

Dotnetnuke localization is getting more shape. Vicenç Masanas...

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