On Wednesday, June 16th 2010 the Capital DotNetNuke User Group will be hosting the second official DotNetNuke Hackathon.

The previous Hackathon held in Orlando last month focused on the DotNetNuke MVP design pattern. This month’s Hackathon in Washington, DC, will focus on developing compelling visual user interfaces and user experiences. The theme is appropriately labeled as "Visual DotNetNuke."

Inspector IT principals and staff will be at the event to meet and greet the great folks of the local DotNetNuke community. Inspector IT is also excited to be the meeting sponsor providing food and beverages.

What is a Hackaton?

Hackathons are developer events with a goal of increasing developer knowledge on a specific technology aspect in a casual, collaborative environment. They are also designed to encourage participation by people who are not familiar with the technology, basically providing them with an immersive quick start.
Hackathon Events are:

• built around a single programming concept (for example: DotNetNuke MVP Pattern)
• encourage participation locally (at event site) and remotely
• broadcast online
• provide materials and dev environment setup guidelines ahead of time
• allow anybody to participate
• are peer-judged by the Hackathon participants
• have one or more winners who earn the title "Hackmaster"
• have great prizes for winners and runners up
• require all submissions to be Open Source with MIT license

Visual DotNetNuke Hackathon

The first official DotNetNuke Hackathon was held in Orlando last month and it focused on building DotNetNuke module using the  MVP design pattern.

Next week, on June 16th, we have a fantastic Hackathon planned, and this time, the theme is "Visual DotNetNuke."

The "Visual DotNetNuke" Hackathon focuses on building  modules for DotNetNuke. The launchpad for the event will be the montly meeting of the Capital DotNetNuke Users Group in the Washington, DC metro area.

Developers have an abundance of resources available to help them better understand DotNetNuke module development. Resources such as blogs, videos and books go into great detail on module architecture, the data layer and interacting with the DotNetNuke Core API. However, when it comes to developing DotNetNuke modules with rich, engaging and contemporary user interfaces, the resources are few and far between.

The "Visual DotNetNuke" Hackathon aims to give developers the knowledge and tools to create great-looking DotNetNuke modules that engage users and create a delightful user experience.

You can learn more about this upcoming Hackathon on the official website.

The speakers at this event are Nik Kalyani, Founder and CEO of HyperCrunch and Joe Brinkman, Co-founder and Technical Fellow of DotNetNuke Corporation.

For more information please visit the Capital DotNetNuke User Group (C-DUG) website.

No related posts.

At this year’s TAUG, Inspector IT will showcase its new Blog for Personify integrated solution for Personify e-Business.  With Blog for Personify, clients have instant access to a seamlessly integrated product that harnesses the power of social media to reach a targeted audience with up-to-the-minute news, information and resources.  Blog for Personify also lets clients elicit feedback and stimulates real time conversations.   Blog for Personify offers Personify integration, Twitter integration, full RSS syndication, MS Word and Windows Live Writer, as well search engine friendly URLs and more.  As with all Inspector IT solutions, Blog for Personify is fully customizable and supported by a team that can offer you superb support services and personal attention to individual clients’ business needs and customers’ expectations.

In addition to offering hands-on demonstrations of the new Blog for Personify, Inspector IT CEO and Chief Software Architect Antonio Chagoury will attend TAUG to work with clients and other TMA partners to share best practices, discuss emerging trends in the non-profit sector, and collaborate on new tools to help associations get the most out of their IT solutions.

Resources: TAUG 2009 Website.

No related posts.

DotNetNuke OpenForce ‘08 is the premier North American DotNetNuke event in 2008. Co-located with other top Microsoft technology-focused conferences at DevConnections, this is a can’t-miss conference for serious DotNetNuke developers, users, administrators, designers and vendors.  Conference highlights include 20 speakers, 22 in-depth sessions, panel discussions, networking receptions, an exciting expo hall.

As an added bonus, OpenForce ‘08 attendees can also attend sessions at any other DevConnections conference in progress at Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, the OpenForce ‘08 conference location. These conferences include: Asp.net Connections, SQL Server Connections, Visual Studio.net Connections, and SharePoint Connections. 
Information and schedules on Antonio Chagoury’s talk can be found on theOpenForce web site, as well asDevConnections‘. Here an excerpt:

Done in 60 minutes: Build a Custom Membership Provider

The Provider Model is a design pattern introduced in .net to provide a simple way to extend API functionality.  DotNetNuke uses this architecture to allow some of its core functionality to be replaced without modifying core code.  In this session Antonio Chagoury will give you a high-level overview of the core Membership Provider (ASPNet Membership) and demonstrate how to build and configure your own custom provider.

Inspector IT would like to hear from you and meet you. If you will be attending OpenForce this year, Antonio will be happy to talk to you and discuss the great potentials of DotNetNuke, and how to put it to good use in your enterprise.

No related posts.

The free licenses will be raffled off to OpenForce ‘08 attendees during an evening event (To be announced). 3 product license will be raffled off for DNN Site Map and 3 other for DNN Dock Menu.

Are you coming to OpenForce ‘08? If so, you may be one of the lucky 6 to win one of the two best selling modules.

No related posts.

No related posts.

No related posts.