It took long enough, but I have finally mastered development of a DotNetNuke 2.1.2 Private Assembly. I made a simple module I call ACIA.JogLog, which logs the Date, Duration, and Distance of a jogging event. Eventually, I would like it to display Average Distance Per Day over time graph using some of the cool sample GDI graphing code I have.

To start, I followed the basic guide to DNN 2.x Module development at DotNetNuke.dk . To make my module, I used John D. Cooper's RAD Module Developer to build my basic Visual Studio.NET project for both the Module and the SQL Data Provider, the ... Read More »

The Senate report on the faulty intelligence used to justify the Iraq war smacks of a whitewash. It singles out the CIA for falsely inflating the claims of Iraq's weapons status, thus clearing the White House of any culpability in pushing the nation into what we now know was an unjustified war.

By examining one of the major justifications for the war (that Iraq had attempted to buy uranium in Africa), we can see how the administration ignored the CIA when the intelligence agency's information conflicted with pre-existing policy goals.

In February 2002, the CIA sent Joseph Wilson to Niger to investigate the uranium allegations. He reported back to the CIA that the allegations were bogus and unrealistic. The CIA relayed this information to Vice President Dick Cheney's office, since it had requested the investigation.

In September 2002, the British repeated the "yellowcake" claim in an official dossier, despite the CIA informing that nation that the claim was unsubstantiated. Ge ... Read More »

Well, I think I have finally added some value to the DotNetNuke community today, with the introduction of Watermarking capabilities into the Ideacca Photo Album courtesy of JohnDCooper.com.

Starting with excellent code I got from the CodeProject.com, by  Joel Neubeck, I was able to port it to the Ideacca Photo Album, another great piece of work following ever so nicely the KISS philosophy (Keep It Simple Stupid). I changed it subtely to let me pass it an initialized image object, which could optionally be watermarked if there was a watermark file available. My version integrates nicely with the Photo Album and DotNetNuke, as I got it to read t ... Read More »