I'm at CodeMash in sunny Sandusky, OH... ...sunny yes, 33 degrees to go along with it.

CodeMash has a full venue of presentations covering a wide variety of topics. It's a good size event for the area.

Here's some pics from CodeMash in Sandusky, OH:

Joe Brinkman (DotNetNuke) and Me (Pat Santry)

Two great ASP.NET promoters in NW Ohio.  Read More »

I updated the DNN framework to DNN 4.4.0 last night. I was a bit worried since this was my first upgrade using an outside hosting provider. I currently use Server Intellect and have no problems with their support, so I figured I could upgrade and if there were a problem drop them a note.

The upgrade went very smooth, no issues were encountered. This version is known as the performance version and is significant. It includes compression, white space removal, as well as some code rewrites to reduce the size of the binary. All in all I'm pretty impressed with this new version, performance improvements were the goal of this release, and it looks like that's what they did. Good work DNN team!

 CodeMash is coming next week in Sandusky, Ohio. I'll be there:

CodeMash

If you're going to be there drop me a note webmaster[@]wwwcoder.com.

The RedmondGadgets.com site hit a major milestone today. Google has been busy updating their PR database this week, and RedmondGadgets.com finally got an initial page rank of 5. A PR of 5 is very good for a site that is only about 2 months old. This would mostly be due to aggressive marketing of the site as well as an article writing campaign. This site has been growing in traffic and receives about 300+ visitors per day. Of course this is short of the 4000+ received by my other site WWWCoder.com, but it's early.

I have been signed up for a while. About a year ago someone sent me an invitation to LinkedIn.com. I never used, but recently I started looking into the site again and adding some of my contacts.

For those who don't know, LinkedIn is an online networking tool for professionals. You can look folks up who work in the same area, industry, skills, or whatever keywords may be in their profile. It's pretty interesting to do keyword searches and see who gets displayed. After looking through a couple contacts in my contact list, I noticed that many are in there and added them (I'm up to 8 directs, and hundreds of thousands 2 and 3 degrees below me).

If you're looking to build your network then you owe it to yourself to check out Read More »