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12/12/2008 2:15 AM
 

So I’ve been a busy guy lately, I’ve been taking night classes and I’ve been travelling all over the place, August and September included trips to New York/New Jersey, Boston, Amsterdam, Dubai, Las Vegas, in October and November.  Next week I am headed to California, and then I have another trip scheduled in January to Connecticut. On top of all that I have been working with Patrick Renner on our forthcoming DotNetNuke book, DotNetNuke A User’s Guide that will be printed by WROX.

What else have I been doing? Development has started on the next version of the Wiki module, be sure to stay tuned to my blogs for more updates on that. We’re making some changes to the project in hopes to make it a bit more transparent, hopefully you’ll see more on that in the next couple of weeks! I can’t be fully transparent on that part just yet ;)

So what really prompted this post? I was looking for something cool to do for a forum post on the forums at DotNetNuke.com, http://forums.dotnetnuke.com, it turned into a blog post, but it will also be my 3000th forum post!

I got into a nostalgic mood because I was coming up on 3000 posts, as well as working on the first chapter of the book as I am writing about about the history (in a much more brief format than Shaun does in the DNN 3 and DNN 4 books). This nostalgia got me thinking, I wonder what kind of forum posts I can find of mine over in the old asp.net forums, where the DNN forums originally were located. I have only gone through a few of them but I did get a chuckle out of reading forum posts I made over 5 years ago about DNN.

Here’s a link to some of those old posts, (this is the last of 138 pages, you can navigate forward at the bottom of the page)

http://forums.asp.net/search/SearchResults.aspx?q=userid%3a141900&o=DateDescending&PageIndex=138

I even made one of the first posts in the dedicated DNN Forum that was setup (#3 on this link)

With all that nostalgia in mind, I want to say Thank You to everyone in the DotNetNuke community. Without the community DNN wouldn’t be what it is today, and I wouldn’t be where I am today, THANK YOU!

 

How about you, when did you get started with DNN? If you look back at that time, what does it make you think of?

EDIT: (whoops, apparently I made my 3k post earlier and didn't realize it! this is 3001)


Chris Hammond
Former DNN Corp Employee, MVP, Core Team Member, Trustee
Christoc.com Software Solutions DotNetNuke Module Development, Upgrades and consulting.
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12/12/2008 8:07 AM
 

This is a good time of year for nostalgia. 

Here's my first post on the ASP.Net Forums.  It's funny that the Tulsa DNUG site is still running on DNN 1.10 with that ugly skin I did way back then. I am not a Graphics designer in case anyone can't tell. 

I had the first commercial skinning engine for DotNetNuke (before DotNetNuke had skins) and one of the first modules listed on Snowcovered.

Here is something interesting.  I saw that the package ID for my first module on Snowcovered was #67 so I decided to see what the latest ID was and it turns out that it is another new Navigation System for DNN PackageId=12786. My first skinning module provided the ability to set the menu colors on the old SolPart menu and over 12,000 packages later there are still navigation modules being created.

I would also like to say thank you to the community and especially to everyone who has participated in the third-party ecosystem (buying, selling, and free) that has kept DotNetNuke running strong all these years.

 

 


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12/12/2008 9:39 AM
 

Talking about first post nostalgia.. my first post on asp.net regarding DotNetNuke was back in July of 2003 and it was for a skin and some containers that I had done ... get this ... FOR USE WITH DOTNETNUKE_XXL_10 ONLY!!!!

http://forums.asp.net/search/SearchResults.aspx?q=userid%3a34397&o=DateDescending&PageIndex=26

 

 
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12/12/2008 9:43 AM
 

As people find their earliest posts, keep in mind that when the forums were upgraded to Community Server a couple years ago, there were a lot of older posts which were not ported to the new system.

In looking through the old posts I found a post about creating the first File Manager module for DNN.  What I find so amazing is that all of these early modules were created without the benefit of a method for packaging and redistributing modules.  They were just a bunch of code which the end-user had to add to their installation and re-compile.  DotNetNuke has certainly come a long ways from those early days.  We didn't get fully supported module packages until the release of DotNetNuke 2.0 in 2004.  It was definitely not for the faint of heart.

In reflecting back on those days I also remember the infamous subscription program.  Here is my first PayPal subscription payment to PMI.

Original Transaction
 Date  Type  Status  Details  Amount
 Feb. 25, 2003 Payment To Perpetual Motion Interactive Systems Inc.  Completed  ... -$29.95 USD

Shaun subsequently rescinded the subscription model and moved to a full Open Source license.  Everyone who had subscribed was offered a refund.  I wonder if it too late to request my refund?   It is definitely the best $30 I ever spent.

As I said in my blog post on DotNetNuke Corp. funding, "we could not have made it this far without the support and understanding of everyone on the project team and in the community."  This project is where it is because of the great community and that cannot be stated enough.


Joe Brinkman
DNN Corp.
 
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