And other News from DotNetNuke Connections 2010
DotNetNuke Connections 2010 Mandalay Bay – Las Vegas November 2,3,4th 2 Rooms 18 sessions
Key Note Presentation Presented by Shawn Walker Packed Room .. People standing !! Described the State of the Nation Pure marketing Announced:
DotNetNuke Version 6 – “Hadron”
DotNetNuke Version 6 - Roadmap User Experience “Instant On” Performance Social & Mobile Enterprise Integration
User Experience Modal “Pop-up” Dialogs Data Entry “Form” Patterns Overhauled Admin Modules Telerik Wrappers Mega-Menu / New Default Skin Content Localization Usability
“Instant On" “On-Demand” version of DotNetNuke “App Store” integration between DotNetNuke and Snowcovered Installation and Upgrade Simplification Business Usage Templates
Performance Database Optimization Javascript, Style Sheet & ViewState “Minification” Content Delivery Network Support CSS Sprites Website Startup Acceleration Intelligent Caching
Social & Mobile Seamless Content Publishing to popular Social Channels Mobile Web Browsing Support for Mobile Devices Native Mobile App Development Support for Mobile Devices
Enterprise Integration with Microsoft Office Sharepoint !!?? Document Management Folder Providers for External Storage Content Staging
Timeline DotNetNuke 6.0 Q2 2011 DotNetNuke 6.1 Q4 2011 To satisfy community and customer feedback, we will move to longer release cycles, fewer major releases, and a significant focus on product quality in 2011
New Offerings from DotNetNuke Perpetual Licenses For customers who require a license for perpetual usage of the DotNetNuke product Bundles A complete solution including our commercial products along with related services and webinar-based training Express Edition Affordably priced, commercially licensed small business solution Entry-Level Product with limited Feature set and limited Support Easily upgradable to Professional or Enterprise
Request for “our” help DotNetNuke Corp. wants to hear from the Community on what features and changes are needed in Version 6 Looking small improvements to functionality Looking for large directional suggestions Not all will be used, but all will be assessed Send suggestions to DotNetNuke by emailing Staff Additional suggestion “routes” will be forth coming
Other Stuff Razor Support coming via a new core module Charles Nurse is implementing module Patching Support being strongly considered Update specific DLLs to implement Security fix No need to update entire Site. Will require minimum site level. Cloud Support Recent updates in Cloud offerings by Microsoft will help DotNetNuke Staff reviewing announced at PDC the week before Connections Strong pressure for improvements on this issue
Other Stuff – cont’d Day of DNN coming for Spring In the Washington DC area – proposed, not confirmed Should be announced very soon “HUGH news coming soon… stay tuned” Twitter post made 23-Nov @11:03 Will have DNN Corporation Support Developers Conference focus Connections to be Marketing focus
Demo Ian Robinsons demo of an packaged solution Uses Web Platform Installer a.k.a. MSDeploy Based on DotNetNuke V5.5.1 No new features – uses what exist today Demo available from www.devconnections.com/updates/LasVegas_Fall10/DNN