DNN's Marriage With Ajax

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DNN's Marriage With Ajax

Posted on Mon Apr 30, 2007 by Tom Kraak
In: DotNetNuke, DNN Friday, DNN News | 8 Comments

Oops, it’s already Monday. So let’s quickly warm up last weeks “news” one more time and move on.

The big news of the week was the announcement of the DNN OpenForce'07 conference. We covered it here.
Follow along as Shaun Walker builds a simple module to highlight DNN’s new affection with Ajax.
Running a large DNN site on a web farm? Charles Nurse explores web farm specific settings in web.config and how they may help you even on a single server.
You think you discovered a potential DNN security flaw, but now what? Shawn Mehaffie sheds more light on the proper protocol and the difference between a security exploit and a security issue.
Kariem Ali releases a free IP Geo location module, which acts as a friendly reminder of where you are (in case you get lost between the copy room and the boss’ office)
Mitchel Sellers publishes round two of test results on the support of Ajax in DNN core modules. Interesting read.
Xepient Solutions announces the release of Open-DocumentLibrary v1.5, a document management module with granular control over folder and document access.

Did I miss anything important in my haste to catch up?

Comments

Wednesday, May 02, 2007 at 10:35 AM Exiton says:

I just tried that Gaia geolocation module. Istalled successfully. After I've added it to the page the page stoped loading. FF2 shows empty page, IE says that the page can not be displayed. Good thing I created separate page to testdrive this module. Had to delete the whole page to remove the module.

Anybody got any ideas on what might have gone wrong?

Wednesday, May 02, 2007 at 11:16 AM Tom Kraak says:

Sorry, I did not play with it yet. Did you check with the developer?

Wednesday, May 02, 2007 at 11:27 AM Exiton says:

No, but I guess I should. Didn't think about it. It's the end of the day where I am, so I kinda dumb right now. :)

Wednesday, May 02, 2007 at 2:53 PM Exiton says:

Ok, I've experimented a little with the copy of my site on local machine and now I can tell you what this module doesn't do:

- does not work with core compression enabled
- does not work for unauthenticated user
- does not work for authenticated user
- does not work for admin
- does work for host... but only under IE

What I also don't like is that it does not load data required on the server side (which obviously has much faster internet connection).

Iccording to the module I'm somewhere in Sweden. :) I wouldn't mind being there... at least for a couple of days... too bad I'm not.

Wednesday, May 02, 2007 at 3:10 PM Exiton says:

I jumped to conclusions about user privileges. They don't actually matter. It's just that the module does not "like" your skin. :) I think it has something to do with the background.

Wednesday, May 02, 2007 at 9:52 PM Tom Kraak says:

Wow Exiton, this is a good start for a module review. Email me if you are interested in becoming a guest blogger.

Thursday, May 03, 2007 at 12:41 AM Exiton says:

Apparently, not so good. I was wrong twice. First was about user privileges. Second, I realize now that since the module is using AJAX the whole point is to do everything on the client side, so it does not have to do anything on server (even if it could)...

Thursday, May 03, 2007 at 11:24 AM Tom Kraak says:

That's all part of the "game" ... live and learn :)