By host on Friday, April 16, 2010 11:24 AM

On Wednesday April 14th, the inaugural meeting of the Toronto Area DotNetNuke was held at the McLean Community Center in Ajax Ontario.  By all accounts the meeting was a great success.

What most don't know is it came within a few hours of being cancelled.  Let me explain. 

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By host on Saturday, April 10, 2010 9:41 AM

As many of you know I use DotNetNuke to monitor the operation of a rather complex Material Handling Application.  Part of the monitoring includes SQL Server Jobs.  The application has several jobs that routinely generate reports and collect and summerize data at shift changes. 

We have some other tools that monitor the health of the various servers and specifically the SQL Server application.  Those other tools will page me if they discover something out of the norm.  One issue I have had in recent months is the occasional page that a SQL Server Job had failed.   A review of the Job summary revealed no such failure. What?  So, here is where DNN and a little T-SQL helped.

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By host on Friday, April 02, 2010 8:06 PM

This blog entry will be a bit off the topic of DotNetNuke, but there is a link.

I have to set the stage, in 1975, I was 20 years old. I was just starting out in the computer industry and the stories of the early “home brew” computer clubs and the beginning of “hobby” computing were part of the times I lived.  I read about all the hobbyist computing through the pages of “Byte” magazine – still regret throwing out 10 years worth of the magazine.    

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