First blog entry for March 2009!

Mark this one as problem solved.

I am working on a project that uses ASP.NET Master Pages. I added an Ajax ModalPopupExtender to a Content page, but it was not rendering properly.

The modal panel was displaying at one location, not at the center of the page, and the shadow was displaying somewhere else. I discovered that the following DOCTYPE declaration was missing from the Master page.

Now the modal is displaying properly.

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Tom Kraak's (Seablick Consulting) presentation on Search Engine Optimization is now available as a webcast at CDUG.

DNN SEO

We have Chris Hammond coming to talk with us at the Capital Area DotNetNuke User Group (http://www.capitaldug.org) meeting this coming Wednesday, May 21st. Chris is a core team member of the DotNetNuke development team.

This will be a great meeting for those interested in developing DotNetNuke Modules!

The meeting starts at 7pm at the ATT offices in Tysons Corner, in Vienna, Virginia.

Working with Microsoft MVP, Jeff Schoolcraft, we have organized a wonderful developer learning event on Saturday, March 29th at Strayer University in Woodbridge, Va.

CodeCamp SOUTH

Speakers include:

• Brian Noyes, Microsoft MVP
• Jonathan Cogley, Microsoft MVP
• Sahil Malik, Microsoft MVP
• Frank LaVigne, Microsoft MVP
• Antonio Chagoury, DotNetNuke Team Lead

and many more.

Topics to be covered include a host of new technologies along with some introductory courses. Here is a sample (you can see the rest at the NovaCodeCamp site).

• Visual Studio 2008
• SQL Server 2008
• SharePoint 2007
• DotNetNuke Module Development
• Office 2007 Development
• Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Development
• Ajax
• Silverlight

For you developers, this is a golden opportunity to see presentations that would typically be presented at high priced conferences like Microsoft TechEd and VSLive. And it is FREE. However, registration is limited to the first 100 that sing up - so make your reservation today!

I was doing a review of content management systems, and came across a surprising reference on Wikipedia.

What surprised me was the large number of free CMS products there are, and that most are written in PHP. The reference also goes on to group commercial products into low (<$5k), medium ($5-15k), and a high ($15>) categories. At the low commercial end, the split is between .NET solutions and PHP solutions.

At the high end, surprisingly to me, was the predominance of all the Java solutions.