As promised that I made the slide deck available for download here at my personal site from the DayOfDNN event in Florida. For those of you who are new to DotNetNuke, the two sessions I presented might not make much sense but if you take good notes, you will find them very helpful when you got to know more about DotNetNuke.

Anyway, the session “Bridging the Gap between Module Developers and DotNetNuke Designers” I presented is geared towards individuals who have good understanding of DotNetNuke in general. It is helpful for those who want to design DotNetNuke web site that will comply with DotNetNuke standards. Also for developers, the process of making your modules look pretty is no longer your responsibility. For more details about the sessions, please download the presentation below.

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With the overwhelming requests from the community, Engage is finally offered the web-based training solution for DotNetNuke®—Virtual Classroom. The team and I are pretty excited to be part of this offer along with other training channels.

Since Engage became the official DotNetNuke® training provider, we mainly focus on classroom and on-site training. These training offers have been well-received, however, there is another large community out that finds many difficulties in traveling across the world to attend our classes in St. Louis. Our web-based training will be very beneficial to all sorts of people from different backgrounds.

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If you’re big into video games, Electronic Arts (EA) has recently launched its global portal to provide larger interaction with its community out there. One good impression that I see when first visiting the site is that it features a user-friendly rotating banner.

The homepage show different video games through large banners with progress indicators from bottom of the banners. These indicators tell you how long the banner will be available until it switches to the next game. When you hover to it, you can either view more details or purchase the video games right at the front page.

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It’s been a while since I visited Facebook to see what friends have been up to. I was surprised to see the new homepage design when I logged in today. I got to say the team at FB did a good job in putting this little change together. One thing I notice is that they are trying to mimic the look and feel of LinkedIn.com.

If you’re on LinkedIn, you’ll see the two home pages are somewhat identical from the left navigation to middle content and right column for advertising.

They organized the left navigation into different groups and categories. Even the status update area is similar to each other. Here are the screenshots to compare if you aren’t familiar with LinkedIn.

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We have been working on a few projects and used a simple Tell-a-Friend module to allow visitors to the site share their favorite sites or stories. Ian took the initiatives and be nice to offer this module to the community for free.

Engage: Tell-a-Friend is a simple module with a clean interface (for admin and end-user). The intention is to create a simple module that demonstrates some of the best practices in DotNetNuke module development at Engage.

The module comes with two types of display, inline display and modal pop-up. You can set the URL and custom message on your module when it sends an e-mail to the recipients.

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An interesting article I found and think it's worth a read.

IT’S BRASH. FRESH. Invigorating. Artful. Vietnamese cuisine mesmerizes with its kaleidoscopic whorl of abundance: fresh herbs and greens, delicate soups, hearty sandwiches, and robust curries. Its cooks are almost obsessive in their lust for lucid contrast -- cooked and raw, hot and chilled, sweet and sour, spicy and mild, crispy and smooth. And you reap the dividends earned from those obsessions.

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Follow up with the previous post about jQuery plugin for sIFR, I found this little useful website that allows you to browse for SWF files to use with sIFR called sIFR Vault (thanks to the guys at Smashing Magazine).

Just in case you are new, sIFR takes a flash file with the font family defined and render your text using the embedded font family in the flash. The problem is that you have to own a copy of Adobe Flash to be able to generate a SWF file that has the typeface you want. Now with sIFR Vault, you don't need a Adobe Flash anymore. Many people came to this site either to grab the available SWF file to use on their projects or to contribute SWF that others don't have.

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The creator of sIFR is Mike Davison, who also created Newsvine, did a great job in making beautiful typography for the web a reality. Today, many similar tools out there also allow you to accomplish this effect. But I still like using sIFR because I'm quite familiar with it and it's working fine for me.

When DotNetNuke released version 5, jQuery is now part of the framework and it exhilarates many developers because they can do so much to improve the user experience in this framework.

As a front-end engineer, it is nice to see jQuery works properly with DotNetNuke and I don't have to fight with troubleshooting as I did when trying to implement some MooTools library back version 4.x.

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It seems like a cool thing that you have a fairly similar look of the 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama. Ilham Anas suddenly becomes popular in the South East Asia region. And I had to admit, he looks just like our new President. But what most interesting is that I just learned about President Obama went to school in Jakarta in late 1960s.

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I attended the DotNetNuke user group meeting tonight in St. Louis with Scott Allender, Business Analyst/Developer at Tricorbraun, presented a great session about how Tricorbraun uses DotNetNuke.

Started off by defining what DotNetNuke and Enterprise-level mean, then he moved to explaining why they made a decision on choosing DotNetNuke for their corporate use. Scott’s presentation is a good example of resource that many people may need to present to upper management or decision makers to go with DotNetNuke. These types of materials seem hard to find since DotNetNuke users are somewhat technical or very tech-savvy people.

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Although I haven’t seen The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, this short video clip certainly shows great similarities in both movies. Or is it just another great skill set that this guy put together to rub off the face of the director? You'll be the judge. But I plan to go and see it anyway.

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I’ve recently updated my photo gallery with the latest gallery module from Scott McCulloch. It seems quite intuitive to use with a cleaner interface.

In addition, I uploaded a whole bunch of pictures from OpenForce in Vegas last year. I haven’t had a chance to go through all the pictures from the trip when I got back to town. The holidays were kind of sneaked on you when you at least expected it. I was playing around with iPhoto and found the pictures from the conference the other night and thought I’d share.

See the Photos page for the images under Conferences album.

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