Yes it is true ... I will be speaking at the up-coming Day of DNN in Chicago on Saturday October 2nd

I am pleased to be presenting two sessions:  Adding Dashboard Functionality and Monitoring Back Office Systems with DotNetNuke. 

While I would love to have you attend my sessions -- there are many other great sesssion to choose from -- 32 in total ... in one Day -- Wow!   If you are within driving distance of Chicago (Naperville actually) I would strongly recommend attending even if you have to stay over for one (or two) nights.  In fact,  I will be driving from the Toronto area to Chicago (930 kms / 577 miles) and will be there for the weekend.  So if I can,  you should consider it too!

Here are the full session descriptions for each of my sessions:  (Check out the official Day of DNN Chicago site for the other great sessions)

Adding Dashboard Functionality

One of the lesser known extension points of the DotNetNuke framework is the Dashboard. This feature allows the site administrator to display information about the status and health of the DotNetNuke environment. The Dashboard is not limited to pre-existing reports; you can easily add additional dashboard extensions to your site. While these modules are rather simple in design and functionality, they can greatly improve the "situation analysis" of your DotNetNuke site.

This presentation will detail the development and installation of a sample dashboard module reporting the size of various tables in the DotNetNuke Database. Once you have learned the required few steps, adding your own dashboard item will be straight forward. 

Monitoring Back Office Systems with DotNetNuke 

Are you responsible for unattended applications that absolutely must "work" – how do you monitor the day-to-day operations to ensure application functionality?– I use DotNetNuke.

This session will detail and discuss how to use DotNetNuke to monitor applications to ensure the processes are working and the applications are functioning as required. How can DotNetNuke be used to ensure standard functionality of your "back office system", validate appropriate functions have completed, display standard log files, or display a dashboard of application status? DotNetNuke makes a great internal tool to support the "data center" operations.

Additionally DotNetNuke can play a pivotal roll in system recovery. A monitoring site can be used to verify recovery, initiate recovery steps, provide user documentation on handling recovery, implement client notification, and provide user feedback. Lastly, using DotNetNuke to monitor DotNetNuke sites will be discussed.

What is probably the best part of this type of meeting, is getting to meet many other DNNers.  And the bonus, you will not have to listen to each speaker give a quick overview of DotNetNuke before getting into the detail of the presentation.  While is this is often required at other user group unfamiliar with DotNetNuke, it refreshing when everyone present at least understands the basic functionality of DotNetNuke.  Don't get me wrong I love to talk about DotNetNuke, and getting people interesting in at least giving it a try.  But what I really appreciate is passing along what I have learned over the passed 6+ years - I registered on DotNetNuke website on April 16, 2004. - to people wanting to learn more about DotNetNuke.

So, if this sounds like you ... please plan to attend.  You will have great time, meet good people and learn alot!

And I hope to see you there!  This going to be fun!

Paul.