This month I tackled a new bowl form – the winged bowl.  I have seen numerous examples of this style and I wanted to do something slightly different.  I originally thought about doing another square bowl but decided that I could sort of combine two styles.  In my first square bowl, there was a lot of added work in gluing up the blank, part of which will be cut off after turning.  [more]

The classic winged bowl style starts with a bowl form with flat, planar projections extending from the sides of the bowl.  I first saw a demo for this form by watching Beyond the Basic Bowl from Bill Grumbine.

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DotNetNuke 4.9.0 Seemed like the little release that could. What started as a single security fix, quickly blossomed into a major release including several enhancements and numerous bug fixes.  Below is just a sample of highlights for this release.

Major Highlights Fixed issues with the URL Rewriter.  There were several issues which could result in unreachable pages using friendly URLs.  We have added in validation logic to prevent pages from being created which would violate folder naming standards or which would result in two pages receiving the...

Last month, I asked everyone to register their selection of DotNetNuke in the 3rd Annual PacktPub CMS Awards.  The community has come through and your voices have been heard.  I am pleased to announce that DotNetNuke has been selected as a finalist in the Best Overall CMS category and in the the Best Other CMS (non-php) category. [more]

Now is not the time however to rest on our laurels.  We are not satisfied with just becoming a finalist.  We are in a good position to win both awards.  So this time I am asking you to do more than just vote.  I am also asking everyone to repost the links to the voting.  Lets really saturate the community with this important news.

I would really like for not just DotNetNuke, but also the entire .Net Open Source development community...