So I had hoped to have the 4.3.7 release of Engage: Publish out last week, but towards the end of the week a few things came up in the code that we decided needed to be handled prior to a release. A few of the items were small bugs that had popped up in some new testing we were doing. One of the major things was performance issues that were starting to pop up.

As more and more people start using Engage: Publish we've started to see some performance items we'd like to implement within the code in order to speed up the sites that are using Publish. Beginning on Monday Brian Dukes and I started taking a good hard look at Caching within the module. As for Friday afternoon the code has been added into Publish that will allow an administrator to setup a default Cache time ...

Last weekend most of us from Engage went down to enjoy the Tulsa Tech Fest.  While the individual sessions were hit or miss, the keynotes were excellent and got us all excited to start using Silverlight, and we all definitely had fun together.

One of the topics in which I have been becoming more and more interested is the concept of Test Driven Development (TDD) and the Model View Controller\Presenter (MVC\MVP) frameworks that enable it.  I attended a few sessions on related topics, and was disappointed to learn that there seems to be little opportunity to use MVC (and, specifically, the new MVC Framework that Microsoft is developing) in DotNetNuke development.  But, I did take away some of the more general principles that ...

If our blog gets really inactive after tomorrow it's because 9 of us are heading to Tornado Country (though we really are already in it).

We're off to Tulsa Tech Fest, leaving this afternoon and tonight. It looks like the Tornados have already moved through, though they've caused some damage to Oktoberfest according to this article on CNN.

If you're going to be in Tulsa, be sure to find some of us!

On Wednesday of this week, we made our first public release of Engage: Rotator on Engage Modules.  If you've wondered about that snazzy looking rotating banner on the front page of Engage Software, this is it.  This is a product that has evolved over the last few months from the needs of various clients, and has now come to the point where we've invested a lot of time in making it user friendly and configurable.  Have a look on our demo site and see if this could help add a nice touch to your site.

DotNetNuke 4.6.2 was released today! You can get it from www.dotnetnuke.com

You can see what was fixed in 4.6.1 which was released last week with the link below. I believe, and this is unofficial, the 4.6.2 release contains a quick fix for ModuleSettingsBase

http://support.dotnetnuke.com/project/ChangeLog.aspx?PROJID=2

Download it now! I've already upgraded a few sites to 4.6.2 and will be upgrading more sites this week!

Well it's been a busy summer for me and it looks like it isn't slowing down just yet. Earlier this month I spent a week in the Washington DC area conducting some advanced DotNetNuke Module Development Training for a new client. In just over a week I'll be in Topeka Kansas for the SCCA Solo Nationals, I'm definitely looking forward to getting away from computers for a week and just enjoying racing a car or two!

I've got quite a few speaking engagements coming up this fall, here's a quick list, I'm sure i'll go into more detail before each event.

October 2nd I'll be speaking at the Information Systems Programming club at UM St. Louis

October 19th and 20th I'll be giv ...