I’ve got a couple items here that I think are somewhat news-worthy, at least related to this blog. Instead of several small posts though I thought I would combine them.
New Bloggers
I’m adding a couple new bloggers to my recommended reading section which just shows as “recommended” because of the word wrap.
Alan Evan’s blog - www.cleverthink.com. Alan, as the blog title goes, is a pretty clever guy who writes about technology, business and many of the new trends coming our way. He’s a pretty active blogger, posting just about every other day. It’s kinda funny because he sits about 30 feet from me at work and I never knew…now I do and I dig his blog so give it a read.
John Sim - www.bluestudios.co.uk/blog. John’s blog apparently has been around for some time, but it appears he’s now starting working with Oracle’s Universal Content Server. He has quite a bit of content on a variety of subjects, but is also posting some UCM examples.
New Component Version
All of my UCM examples and components are developed right here(as if you could see me) on my local laptop. I’m running W2K03 server R2, Oracle enterprise 11g and Oracle UCM 10gr3 1.3.3.3(something like that…just patched so it ends with 3 now). If your environment is different most of these examples will still work, but ocassionally there are issues. For instance, I had a request for a Stellent 7.5.1 and JVM 1.4.2 version of the IDOC Developer interface. I don’t have a great 751 test environment, but I managed to dig one up at work. It needed a couple tweaks, but over all pretty much the same. Here’s the link though if you need that earlier version(rememebr you will need scriptaculous).
idocdeveloper_stellent751_java_142
Really, Really old Refinery Example
Way back in the day I had a lot of fun playing with Stellent’s inbound refinery. In fact the first project ever posted to content on content management was a .NET example and framework to create a custom conversion engine for the 7.5.1 refinery. Basically it was two projects; The framework which is just an assembly that provides an abstract class you inherit to create the conversion engine and an example conversion engine using the framework. I wrote the post, threw it up on the site(then in DotNetNuke..yuck) and proceeded to ignore the blog for the better part of a year(I am pretty sure no one ever visited the site either). By the time I actually started blogging 10gr3 was out with it’s whole new refinery and I never re-posted the project. Then a few weeks ago on the Oracle forums I mentioned the example and there was a bit of intrest in the project. I’ve actually had it posted for download for a little while now, but figured I would call some attention to it with this post.
Here’s the link:
.NET Custom Refinery Converter
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3 Comments
DotNetNuke isn’t that bad
just don’t use any of the core modules and when you develop with it don’t use any of their middle tier. Then it’s actually pretty good haha. We use entity spaces to do our DNN development and it’s the best .NET CMS we have at the moment so thats what we have to live with.
It’s been well over a year since I last played with DotNetNuke, so perhaps things have changed, but my main problem with it is it’s performance. I’ll grant you that it has a lot of nice functions and it’s pretty easy to use, but I think there’s too much overhead in it to process a page quickly.
I definitely disagree that its “the best .NET CMS” too. Perhaps the best OpenSource .NET CMS?…And I’ll only not argue with that statement for lack of experience working with the others. We use Ektron and SiteCore at work and I’d say the best .NET CMS title would fall to one of them.
Thanks very much for the comment though, I really do appreciate them. I checked out your site, and that is some pretty cool work you’ve done. You’ve definitely taken DNN pretty far!
Ahh yes, critical word excluded from my post! If i knew nothing of DotNetNuke and set it up today, I would quickly move on. It takes some work to know all the things that need to be changed to make it perform better and not just look awful. We turn off much of the logging, that will kill performance pretty quick.
I’ve read about Ektron before, ill check out SiteCore. Thanks for the links.