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5 Things I'm hoping to get out of DNNWorld

I'll be attending DNNWorld for this first time this year and thought I would summarise the top 5 things I want to get out of the experience.

#1 Product Roadmap

One thing about the DotNetNuke project that I don't have a clear understanding is the product roadmap.

If you look at their website, the product roadmap area looks to be in a state of disuse.  

I'm looking for some high level points of planned feature sets for the next 1-2 years. 

#2 Networking

I've already met Will Strohl by accident in one of the motel shops. I'm looking forward to linking up with other developers and learning from their experiences. 

Many years ago, I met quite a few of the other DNN developers at a Las Vegas conference, so it will be great to renew those relationships. 

#3 Module Documentation & Best Practices

I'm keen to understand how other developers find the documentation for DotNetNuke. Part of my own experience has been a mashed up mix of blog posts, wiki articles, quickstart posts, etc. 

The end result is a lot of the API is under documented or fragmented in coverage. I spend most of my time reading the core code to understand how best to use it. 

I'm sure the presentations at DNNWorld will help to fill some of this knowledge gap. 

#4 DotNetNuke 7

This version of DNN is shaping up as a great administrative build. I'm looking forward to understanding this release more. 

#5 Deployment Best Practices

Part of my work with F5 is the deployment of a web farm to support devcentral.f5.com. I'm looking to find some best practices for supporting a web farm along with any performance guides. 


5 comments

So...
How was DNNWorld this year.
What were your biggest take-aways?
Phil Speth @ Sunday, October 14, 2012 4:40 PM

DNNWorld was excellent, my biggest takeaways were:

1.) I should have gone previous years

2.) I didn't realise how popular some modules like news articles really were (I met a ton of customers)

3.) Cloud / Azure is going to become increasingly important in the next few years

4.) Significant shift in module architecture is occurring. (KnockoutJS - client, Services Framework API, better centralised services such as Notifications API, New DAL2 Data Framework).

5.) DNN7 is awesome - though will break quite a few skins and any modules that used the 6.2 services framework.
Scott McCulloch @ Sunday, October 14, 2012 4:47 PM

Scott, great meeting you in person at DNNWorld last week!
Hope you had a safe trip home!
Look forward to our next event!

Dang
cdang @ Monday, October 15, 2012 12:36 PM

It was good to meet you at DNNWorld Scott.
I came home and renewed my Gold subscription :)

BTW: I spoke with Charles Nurse about the new DAL2.
It is true, that the new DAL2 using petapoco is only a 1 to 1 relationship between a single table and an object.

However, you can create multiple repositories to update more than 1 table at a time.

Again, it was good meeting you, and I look forward to the new things we'll see this year in DNN as well as Ventrian modules.

Take care.





Brad @ Monday, October 15, 2012 12:48 PM

You too Dang! Epic tree climbing!

Brad - I caught up with Charles as well and that was my impression -- still going to be good to use!
Scott McCulloch @ Tuesday, October 16, 2012 5:45 AM


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