I retired from personal blogging in July 2008.
But you can find me over at http://blog.xero.com.
I had an overnight in Auckland so went along to the Auckland .Net User Group session on DotNetNuke.
DNN is an open source portal built on ASP.Net (VB). It has 40 core team members, and 85,000 site members.
What was impressive was how they had architected the framework to allow components to plug in. The skinning or UI separation was really clever.
I now get how the open source model changes the rules. As a developer you can tap into a wide body of work to extend yourself virtually. It gives the smart developer scale and opportunity.
I think we are only now seeing the start of the model and I’m going to spend a bit of time thinking about where it could go.
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