DNN Hangout - March 2015 - Basics of DNN and Microsoft Azure

This month, we talk to our first Microsoft employee, Jared Shockley.  Interestingly enough, he wasn’t technically a Microsoft employee when we originally scheduled him to appear as a guest speaker.  We spoke to Jared about how he found DNN, what it was and is like to work for Microsoft (since this is his second time with the company), and we dive into some of the first things you need to know before starting with Microsoft Azure. 

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Site of the Month

Earlier this year we spoke with Aaron and Dylan Lopez from Innosoftware.  They submitted a site of the month submission immediately following that broadcast and I couldn’t wait to show it.  It looks great!

Northspan is a contract drilling company focused on exploration drilling, based in Kelowna, Canada.  Their site follows a lot of the “best practices” that Aaron discussed with us in the January hangout.  They have implemented a beautiful video as the background of the header area and implemented quite a few third party extensions.  Those extensions include DNN Sharp URL Adapter, DNN Sharp Action Form, 40 Fingers Style Helper Object, and plenty of 2 Sexy Content. 

If you would like to submit one of your sites to be featured in a future hangout, please let me know.

DNN Hangout with Jared Shockley

Show Notes

Events

• March 19:  Central California .Net User Group meeting in Fresno, CA
• April 29 – May 1:  Microsoft Build 2015 in San Francisco, CA
• May 4-8:  Microsoft Ignite 2015 in Chicago, IL
• May 28-31:  DNN Connect 2015 in Millau, France

News

• Preorder the DNN 7 Book
• Meet Jan Jonas
• Meet Brian Dukes
• Submit your skin to be the new default DNN skin
• Core extensions moving from Codeplex to Github

Extensions Mentioned

• DNN Sharp URL Adapter
• DNN Sharp Action Form
• 2 Sexy Content
• 40 Fingers Style Helper Object
• BTB-Tweet
• Turbo Scripts
• HammerFlex Skin
• OnyakTech Syrup iPhone app for Hotcakes (currently in BETA)
• OnyakTech Comments Pro (now integrated with Hotcakes)
• OnyakTech SigmaLive Live Chat (now integrated with Hotcakes)
• Azure Redis Caching Provider for DNN
• Content Injection

Additional Resources

• Vivaldi web browser
• Opera web browser
• Scott Hanselman’s ASP.NET Community Standup (hangouts)
• Microsoft Azure
• Microsoft Azure 30-Day Free Trial
• MSDN Subscription
• BizSpark
• Microsoft Azure Traffic Manager
• Microsoft Azure Application Insight System
• Channel 9:  Inside the Azure Storage Outage of November 18 with Mark Russinovich
• PowerShell
• Channel 9:  Windows PowerShell Unplugged with Jeffery Snover
• OneGet PowerShell Package Management Aggregator by Garrett Serack

This blog entry is cross-posted from my personal blog.