The nominations were made; the votes were cast and now we’re ready to share the news! We have a great group of returning DNN MVPs along with some new DNN MVPs that I’d like to introduce you to. I’m excited to share this news and am pleased to welcome both new and returning MVPs to the group.

There are a number of things that change when you progress from developing a module just for yourself to developing modules for a wider audience. DNN has a ton of features to make life easier for you and to protect the user on the other side. This is vital because you have no idea where the module will be installed. Like the version of DNN your module will be running on, other extensions that have been installed or the selected theme. In this post I'll delve into some of the factors influencing the decision which DNN version to target with your extension.

I have said on many an occasion. And I'll readily admit that in part this is just an old coder's frustration with a new technology. One of the many "get off my lawn" moments I've gone through. But like it or not, NuGet is here to stay and in our Microsoft-oriented world it is the standard way to resolve references. Before we had NuGet we'd do this "manually". So before I go any deeper into this, let's first explore what the breadth of the problem is and how we used to do this in the old days. You know, when telephones were still attached to a wall.

Then comes Ukraine, Canada and Russia. And the city that is responsible for most visits is....*drum roll*...Numansdorp...Yeah, google that, my friend.

DNN has settings that allows the user, at login, to choose to stay logged in longer. By default these settings are off and so many go years without grokking these high ROI, easy to use options. Read on if clicking a checkbox and staying logged in for 4 days or 2 weeks sounds useful!!

A free, open source authentication provider for DNN.

You can now Single Sign On from a remote website (if it has implemented SAML) to your DNN Portal.

What the heck is Git and GitHub and how do I use them?  There are so many open-source projects out there that I'd love to get involved in, but I don't have a clue how to Git what I need!  Can you help?!?!?  I have tried, but I have done nothing but embarrass myself and mess things up for others.

There are a lot of blog entries and articles in the Web about that topic, and it has been discussed a million times in the last years - esp. since Let's Encrypt entered the market and Google announced that using (or not using) HTTPS will affect site ranking. But still I find sites in the community that don't use it, so here I want to work out reasons for doing a change.

If you are not a coder by nature, Github is created by aliens. It first it makes no sense whatsoever. At a second glance it does not get better.
But I am Dutch, stubborn and determined to get involved. So, here is the Github for non-devs. No command lines. No power shell!

Since the launch of the website at DNN-Connect in Champery, there has been made quite some progress. More in detail will follow in seperate blogs. Today we had a meeting about what has been  done and what is on the plate for next months. Replay of the meeting is on: ​https://fccdl.in/VhewA3UL3S