By host on Saturday, February 18, 2006 9:23:36 PM

Over the next few weeks, I will be out of the country and supporting my site from a distance.  While I will be checking often, I doubt it will be as often as I currently check the site.  So please bare with me, but I hope to get back to all that have questions or feedback on the any of modules.

Enjoy!

By host on Thursday, February 16, 2006 10:37:08 PM

I recently became a benefactor of the DotNetNuke Project.  While I joined at the Bronze level, I believe this is worth while as I have been able to sustain the developement of this site based solely on the donations of others.  Therefore, it only makes sense that I "pass it forward" as the saying goes. 

The Core Team needs the support of the users and I believe that this means putting up some hard earned Cash... Well if you consider the base reason of why that money was donated, by which I mean the DotNetNuke framework itself, there is no way I could fail to become a benefactor.

I encourage anyone who has benefited from the use of the Framework to consider becoming a benefactor - even if just for one year.  

This is the best way to encourage the Core team to stay the course and ensure a healthy framework that continues to grow.

Thanks

By host on Monday, February 06, 2006 7:52:51 PM

I was reviewing my site traffic over the last week and noticed several hits from rather strange sources.  So, I looked into the DNN Sitelog to determine what pages were referenced.  My site traffic is low enuf that I can look at the top referrers to see where my site gets the biggest links without too much hassel.

As it turns out, both Kate Gregory and Rob Windsor have referenced my site relating to my efforts at the Toronto Code Camp.   Take a look... especially if you are considering speaking at an event.  

Many thanks Kate and Rob...

By host on Sunday, February 05, 2006 5:54:01 PM

This week I received several E-mails requesting better support for data handling in SQLGridSelectedView.  The main issue as the specific format need to satisify SQL Select processing.  It seems that users would error in entering the needed data and the results were not pleasant.  So, I started to investigate the addition of a Calendar Popup. 

My needs were a bit specific and thus I couldn't use the Calendar that exists in DNN as it is tied to the region settings and the format must be numeric to work.  Ugh!  Also, I needed to be able to input time.

So, I started with a Google search and looked at many Calendar Popups that would certainly do the job, but most were over 40K in size... I really wanted something a little smaller - under 20K. 

I finally found "DateTimePicker" by TengYong Ng (www.rainforestnet.com).  While this is small, it did work with alpha months in the Date string and allowed for Time values.  I modified the routine to include...

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By host on Tuesday, January 24, 2006 10:08:00 PM

Seems a letter I wrote to the hosts was actually read  and made it to the show -- Number #163 ... you can hear the entire show at www.dotnetrocks.com or just the letter at the link below.

As I wrote in my previous blog entries, I presented a talk on DotNetNuke Module development at the Toronto Code Camp.  As rank beginner in this field - public presentations - I was rather green. 

The reason I applied to speak, was a growing belief that I could do it and that a .Net community event would be the best venue to start (or end) my speaking career.  About the time that the annoucement of the Code Camp, the "boys" from DotNetRocks (Richard Campbell and Carl Franklin) were doing a road trip stoping at various .Net meetings throughout the U.S. as they headed to Vegas for the Launch of VS 2005.  Well as they spoke to each group, they recorded comments from the various .Net Community members.  It seemed to be an engaging group that, perhaps, I...

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By host on Tuesday, January 17, 2006 10:55:00 PM

I had the pleasure of being a speaker at the Toronto Code Camp on this past Saturday - January 14th - and it was a real success.  I spoke on "Module Development in the DotNetNuke Framework V3/V4".  My session was well attended as were all the sessions.  The camp had close to 200 attendees - see www.TorontoCodeCamp.com for details and pictures..  but here is one me.

Many thanks to organizers ...  especially Chris Defour.

 

By host on Monday, January 09, 2006 7:13:00 PM

Today I started to create a rather simple stored procedure that I thought would take a few minutes... Well it fell into the "20 minute" rule... if you estimate about "20 minutes" it won't be...

Anyway, this procedure needed to build SQL Select based on parameters passed in.  So, I needed to user SQL EXECUTE statement.  I create @SQL as the varchar that I contained the select statement and passed the command to the EXECUTE.. When procedure ran, I got the MSG 203  error message, but it was truncated due to the length of the SQL statement..  No problem, off to Books Online to determine what the MSG 203 message -- not there... Google?

OK .. 20 minutes later I finally discovered that any statement I passed into the EXECUTE statement did not work.  Hmmmm.  So back to the EXECUTE statement documentation.  Seems that I had missed a little detail.  If you are using a variable -- eg. @SQL in my case -- you must surround the EXECUTE parameter statement in brackets.  

So...(using the NorthWind database...

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By host on Saturday, January 07, 2006 10:56:00 PM

This is my initial blog entry.  At this point I feel as if I am writing this in an empty room, but I believe this will change over time. 

So I am getting close to completing my new site.  So why TressleWorks?  It is rather simple, I am Model Railroading fan and was looking for a name that sort of reflect that aspect.  A tressle or trestle - take your pick - is a beam used to build a table.  In the case of railway tressles, the wood beams collectively are call a tressle.  Most tressle bridges now are metal, but there are stil some wooden ones around.

I have just released my latest version of SQLGridSelectedView. I made several tweaks to the code to correct some minor errors - specially I broke the data export with respect to user entered date ranges - version 3.3a and 3.3b both ignored the user input and only displayed the default date range in the exported data file.  This has been corrected.  

I also moved the location of the header message to appear above the data selections - it seems...

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