Early tomorrow morning I am flying out Seattle to see my Mom.  About 6 days ago she called to deliver some bad news – the cancer was back. 

Over the past 3 years my Mom has battled a couple of different forms of cancer.  First there was the Breast Cancer.  Fortunately the doctors caught it early.  They operated quickly, performing a lumpectomy and lymph node removal at the same time.  Following radiation treatment everything seemed to be good.  No further cancer was found in the lymph nodes and my mom seemed to have recovered fairly quickly.  [more] 

6 months later I...

Over and over I see DotNetNuke modules whose settings pages are created using the utilitarian look of the default DotNetNuke settings.  I personally don’t care for this appearance since the layout relies very heavily on the use of tables.  I really wanted to style my settings page along the lines discussed in the recent Sitepoint article on Fancy Form Design Using CSS.  Unfortunately, if you setup your module to use the standard settings page, then you do not have control over the stylesheets.  Unlike the standard page, your module.css is not injected...

July 4th 2008 marks another milestone in the evolution of DotNetNuke:  For the first time that I am aware of, we have distributed a completely automated build of DotNetNuke.  For the last 5 years Shaun has manually built and packaged every release of DotNetNuke.  For the bulk of those releases, the build occurred on a single machine that Shaun has nurtured throughout the life of DotNetNuke.  Not only was almost every release built on the same  machine, but they were built by Shaun.  Often the build and packaging process took a considerable amount of time which limited the frequency with which builds were released.

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