By Bo Nørgaard on Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Except for some trouble finding the correct key combination on my Mac Keyboard, everything is working fine.

I did a lot of programming last night, and I had no problems at all running Visual Studio and a test web site in the virtual box. Alle the lag from the remote desktop solution is gone, and its easy to forget that its not a PC that I am working on.

Anyone remember the DAL builder? Well nothing much have changed, and I still dont want to code all the trivial modul definition and data access layers by hand, these thing should be code generated. So yesterday I started building a new version that is going to build modules and data access layers for DotNetNuke 5.

I now need to catch up on the development style for version 5, and especially the different ways to implement the data layer. As I understand it, there are now more ways to do the data access - I better get start googling and reading the DNN blog. I might even order the version 5 development book to see if there are something I missed.

By Bo Nørgaard on Monday, November 16, 2009

A year has passed with no spare time to use on DotNetNuke. Now its time to get up to speed and get started having fun with my favorite CMS system.

I just went through the DotNetNuke.com site, and was a little surprised that multi language content is still the next big thing to be released. If I am not wrong that was also the case a year ago? I also found that the paid version now contains functionality that is not present in the community edition, which I dont like. Venture capital can destroy any good product/company - but I hope that this is not going to happen with DotNetNuke.

What I now fear is that the multi language support will be limited to the paid version... that would be really bad.

At my home office I now only have an iMac, so how do I develop DotNetNuke modules on this?

My first setup, was to put my PC into the garage, enable wake-on-lan and install the Microsoft Remote Desktop client on the mac. I am now able to turn the PC on, control it over the network and shut it down again. But even though I have a 1Gbit network it still was unresponsive and did not work as good as expected (probably also because the PC is old and slow in itself running Vista).

Yesterday I installed Sun Virtual Box (which is free for home use) on my iMac, and then installed a 64bit XP and Visual Studio 2008 Express as I currently have no funds to get Windows 7 and upgrade my VS2005. I downloaded the new starter-kit from DotNetNuke and created a new development website - I am still excited how easy it is to get up and running compared to DNN version 1.0.4

I will blog on my progress with this new development platform, and start the process of updating some of my old modules, and even try out some new ideas I have for new modules...