The new iMac with its 27” LED display and core i7 goodness, slim profile and drop dead gorgeous looks lacks just one thing. It doesn’t run Windows 7 out of the box. Snow Leopard and the lackluster  Apple supplied software notwithstanding, I was still drooling at how big a code window I could get if I fired  up Visual Studio 2010 in this baby. Here’s a step by step guide to matching the most beautiful (if not the best) hardware with the most useful OS of all times – Installing Windows 7 on iMAC 27” Core i5/i7.

Here’s wishing you a very Happy New Year. And a very happy new decade too!

I’ve been making resolutions off and on since childhood. And breaking them too. At some point I lost interest in them. At another, I tested my will-power to its extremes. Of course, a resolution was always meant for just that one day.  This year’s resolutions;

How does somebody package a DNN module? Login as host, go to Module Definitions, hit Edit on the module you want to package and voila, there’s a Create Package button!

How do you create a package from command line? Or, how do you create a package that contains multiple packages? I have to admit, I couldn’t Google enough to find a solution. So, here it goes.

I’ve never hosted with PowerDNN. I have no idea why their services are so -- “Expensive.” I also hate spammers. And scammers. So tell me people; what is it that I have missed about PowerDNN? Is it a ripoff? What’s with all the TVs and Giveaways spamming my DNN search tabs on twitter? Are people really stupid? Or is it just me? Updated.

A proof of how quickly time flies asserts itself around this time of the year when it is time to renew the SSL certificate used for SMTP, POP and IMAP services on Exchange Server 2007. It is surprising however that the documentation on how to do so is still scarce and hard to come by, nearly 3 years since I embarked on the original installation. What is more intriguing however -- I end up doing the same mistakes every year. This time, I’m going to outline the  whole process.

Here’s how to use GoDaddy’s SSL certificates with Exchange Server 2007 and ISA Server 2006.

Planning for that much awaited vacation? Expect boss to come up with a work-during-weekends-plan.

Never been late on payments? Expect your credit card company to jack up the interest rates.

Thinking of saving some money by moving to Vonage? Expect AT&T to hit you with a $1000+ bill.

Planning on flying after a long time? Expect Obama to pay a visit and lockout the entire airspace.

Hoping Bipin or Ashok would show up on the weekends? They’d get too darned busy to even say “See ya sucker.”

It’s done! It’s over. Goodbye DNN Blog, Hello SpeedBlog.

Written from grounds-up, SpeedBlog is my own platform for writing blogs and articles.

Now, now I’m not going to say much except for quoting purely-narcotic - “Normal blogging shall resume soon.”

This was bound to happen. But it didn’t have to. For an open source framework like DotNetNuke, so powerful and widely adopted, yet blogging or even publishing an article was an after-thought. In the OpenSource world they say, “The product has to be absolutely top-notch to succeed” and yet instead of harnessing and shoring up on the success of DNN, the Blog module stands there, lackluster in every sense, reeking of neglect, derelict, unending wait  except for the oohs and aahs of what’s about to come in the next version.