Nik Kalyani's Irrationally Exuberant Musings on Technology
In an average week, I communicate on the phone, by email, through webinars and in person, with some 100 DotNetNuke business customers, prospects and partners. A majority of them use DotNetNuke in some mission-critical way. I enjoy these conversations and get many insights on their real-world experience with DotNetNuke. I have noticed that there are some common things that end-users find problematic with... 
If you are like me and want your websites to have a clean, unblemished look, then most likely you have either turned off the Print functionality in your DotNetNuke module settings or just use containers that don’t display the icon. While this does make the site look cleaner, it also takes away the functionality. I gave this some thought and concluded that a Widget would be a great way to provide the... 
Starting with Release 5.x, the DotNetNuke platform has included a Javascript-based Widgets framework for dynamically injecting client-side interactivity into skins and modules. Like most Open Source developers, I thoroughly enjoyed coding the Widget framework but neglected to document it properly. In this four-part series I hope to correct this shortcoming. In Part 1, I will introduce some fundamental... 
It has begun. With Amazon’s announcement of the Alexa web search platform beta the index of the web is no longer the domain solely of 800 lb gorillas. Anybody who knows how to consume a webservice can tap into Alexa’s index of billions of documents. This move will truly democratize search as ideas will no longer be constrained by the need to have a massive data center and web... 
