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So for those of you who attended the Post Conference training last week after OpenForce you know we tried to squeeze too much information into the session and had to leave out some of the important items from the module development topics. This blog post will hopefully serve as a pointer to get you headed in the right direction for your module development!

So OpenForce 2008 has come and gone way too quickly! It’s Thursday afternoon and three of us from Engage are still sitting here...

There must be a thousand people or more sitting here in the room with us watching Scott Guthrie’s keynote here on the first day of DevConnections/OpenForce 2008. Scott is currently showing some of the cool features that shipped with .NET 3.5 SP1 and VS 2k8 SP1 regarding object relational mappers (demo done in vb.net).

It's Sunday night and some of the guys from Engage are prepping themselves for spending this week in Las Vegas at the OpenForce DotNetNuke conference. Ian Robinson, Cuong Dang, Rich Campbell and myself, Chris Hammond, will be starting our journey at Lambert Airport tomorrow around noon.

With just 5 days until OpenForce starts in Las Vegas there is still time to get registered! This will be the ultimate DNN gathering for 2008.

It's been a few months coming but Engage: Publish 5.2 released last week while I was off in Kansas racing. There are a lot of new features/enhancements and bug fixes in the release. You can read a forum thread where I discuss a lot of the new functionality and changes here. You can also check out the release notes in our Wiki.

So I've been saving this blog post for over a month, now that there is information out in the open I'm going to post it! OpenForce08 is coming! Being held at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas again this year, November 10th thru the 13th. The OpenForce08.com website is still getting updated but you can find out information about OpenForce08 by checking out the DevConnections website http://www.devconnections.com/openforce/

It took two years, and adding girls to the team, but we finally won a softball game! In 2006 we played in a men's rec league and managed to screw up every game just enough to lose. Well tonight was the first game of the 2008 Season and we pulled off a winner! 15-8!

In the first DotNetNuke newsletter from the DotNetNuke Corporation for 2008 the project spotlight showcases a website that is using Engage: Publish for content management. Here's some of the text that was included in the newsletter. "At the ZoneDiet.com site, visitors can get a wealth of information about the Zone Diet, in addition to being able to order official Zone Products (Omega-3 Concentrates, Food Items, Polyphenols, Supplements, Skin Care Products, Books) through the e-commerce store. "

Earlier today we had a customer post a question in the forums on www.engagemodules.com regarding using Engage: Publish as a replacement for the Text/HTML module within DotNetNuke.

For my personal website I converted from CommunityServer to DotNetNuke, using Engage: Publish as the Blogging platform. I did a pretty lengthy writeup of the conversion process. You can read more about the conversion on the writeup.

For those of you who may have missed it, Engage: Publish 4.5 released last week. This release has some big improvements for the module, and lays the groundwork for a new major releasing coming in the next month or so. Read more for more information!