During the last several months I have been doing more and more jQuery development and have found a few key tricks that have improved my code and made my development experience much more enjoyable.

1.  Inject the jQuery library reference in the head section.

jQuery does not know about the DNNMenu and the ClientAPI.  It will step all over them if given half a chance.  Of course, DNNMenu and the ClientAPI are aware of possible conflicts with popular JavaScript libraries and will take steps to avoid any conflicts IF the jQuery library is already loaded.  The ClientAPI is loaded at the top of the ASP.Net page form so loading jQuery in the header ensures it is loaded before the ClientAPI. 

If you are building a module that injects a jQuery library reference, add it in the page header and you will be safe.  If you just want to include a jQuery script on a page then you can edit the Page Settings/Advanced Settings to add the script reference to the Page Header Tags.

DotNetNuke 4.9.4 is a minor stabilization release for the 4.x codebase.  This release is targeted at resolving a major defect with the module caching code and also addresses two minor security issues.  We do not anticipate any further releases of the 4.x codebase.

As always you can see a complete list with all the details of each fix/change in the ChangeLog.

Major Highlights in this release Fixed a major module caching issue which resulted in empty content for webcrawlers Improved performance of FormatRemoveSQL method Security Fixes...

Yesterday, announcements went out to speakers who submitted sessions for DotNetNuke OpenForce North America.  During the call for speakers we received almost 200 entries and 70 speakers.  Obviously, everyone cannot speak and making the selections was extremely difficult.  We appreciate all of the input we received which made our task both easier and more difficult.  Easier in that there were lots of great topics to choose from so getting good coverage across all the tracks was relatively simple, and more difficult in that we knew that we would have to eliminate many great topics and speakers.

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As many people already know, I spent the past week traveling to California and Canada to meet with the DNN Corp. management and engineering teams. This was an exciting trip for me as it was a chance to see us reach one more milestone in the growth of DotNetNuke and DNN Corp. For the last 6 years, DotNetNuke has been a virtual organization with core team members spread around the globe. This is the norm for most Open Source projects and while it poses some challenges, it is something you learn to deal with if you want to be involved. When Shaun, Scott, Nik and I formed DNN Corp in 2006, we continued operating in this fashion. We each had our own home offices along with Charles Nurse and Bill Walker. Starting in January DNN Corp began hiring additional employees. It is no longer possible for everyone to work from home or to work from temporary office spaces and we began the search for office space. As anyone who has been through the process can tell you, it can sometimes take a while to find suitable office space and get it built out and ready for employees. In April we finally moved into new offices in both San Mateo, California and Abbotsford, British Columbia. This trip was my first opportunity to visit the new offices and meet some of our new employees.

Once again the DotNetNuke community will be heading off to Las Vegas in November for the annual DotNetNuke OpenForce North America conference.  We are looking for a handful of people who want free hotel accommodations and conference admission.  All you have to do is get selected to be a speaker.  You know you have a lot of great insight and knowledge of DotNetNuke and would love to share it with the DotNetNuke community.  Well today is your last chance to turn in your speaker submissions for the North American conference.  Just go to the OpenForce homepage at http://www.openforce09.com...