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well hello hello hope everybody is doing well this is the let me see what month |
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are we in now is this October October the 20th or uh Southern |
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Fried DNN uh it's been a minute since we've been together uh and it's great to |
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see all the faces and uh placards on the on the zoom screen there uh from Jeremy |
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yeah um we uh I think it was last month and |
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maybe the previous month did we skip two uh there Ryan or was it just one that we |
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skipped we had to reschedule one and then we skipped one so they were pretty much |
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back to back yeah yeah so it's been a while it's great to see everybody again um I mean just because we haven't been |
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meeting doesn't mean that nothing has been going on in the DNA community so we've got all sorts of for sure uh |
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greatness to talk about tonight with the focus kind of being on uh a big release I mean it the numbers say that it's a |
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minor one but for all practical purposes it's a it's a major release |
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um so we're gonna try to do a little Deep dive into that tonight and kind of talk about some of the highlights of |
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that so let me uh take a second to share screen and we'll go into a few |
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probably shouldn't move that out of the way everybody able to see the uh Meetup page okay |
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yep you're in good shape excellent good deal then and I need to fix my windows |
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here just a little bit but um yeah so uh I guess we'll just kind of start out with a few |
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um Community type announcements here but it's kind of funny because the this uh I |
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I was gonna if Daniel vladis was on here I was going to give him a bit of credit I was up at his place |
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um for about uh three weeks or so in Canada and uh I was uh getting ready to publish |
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a Blog on the the testing for the 9.11 release and I started playing around I |
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was like I got to create a graphic for this you know I got to figure out kind of what doing I I had some ideas in my |
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head and everything and we were sitting there and this image was supposed to be used for another blog but um it was kind |
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of cool it's a compositive this is just a little bit of Side Story but a little little composite here of a concert and |
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people in it okay that's the perfect time to pay for |
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a concert yeah let me figure out who's who the feedback's coming from there uh let's |
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see okay okay I think I'm good there now |
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um yeah so uh but it was kind of cool because it was it's actually multiple images and Graphics so I kind of |
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composited together but it was really kind of neat the way it came out and uh DNN being the center stage there and |
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9.11 is pretty big release so it kind of warranted that kind of Epic uh type uh |
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type little thing there but I mean just a little Side Story so um I guess what is going on in the |
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community um one of the things that I have on my list and feel free to chime in if there's things that I miss here that uh |
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because there's been so much going on I guess we're kind of covering a lot from the last couple of months here but one |
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of the recent things I mean since we're in October let's talk a little bit about Oktoberfest |
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um usually uh I try to do a little bit more talking about this in the Indian Community but this is something that's |
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broader in the open source Community if you're not aware of it check out hacktoberfest.com |
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um it's sponsored by digitalocean and a few other sponsors like Docker and upright |
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um on this but it's it's really kind of grown into this the yearly thing where |
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um developers and you know people in the open source Community kind of come together they start contributing a |
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little more probably than normal and you get credits for doing open source work |
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and get a cool t-shirt I should have worn my t-shirt tonight I got one year that they did it was like my favorite |
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shirt because it's just so comfy um but uh yeah every year you either get a t-shirt or some swag stuff or some |
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planetary you know kind of whatever floats your boat on that but it's really fun um new be involved in any kind of Open |
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Source platform of course DNN can be one of those or some of the open source |
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Community modules or you know whatever you know is in that world but I encourage everybody to check this out |
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and take a little bit of time in October to see how you can contribute to uh to various projects out there you know even |
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if it's small type stuff I mean every every little bit help helps so it's uh really nice to be involved in |
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that one of the things that you'll probably notice like in the DNM platform |
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repo or some of the other dating Community modules will have a label on |
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some of the issues there that are like a help wanted label and any issue like |
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that or kind of like low hanging fruit and be less of a you know kind of a |
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learning curve to to be able to contribute in those areas so that's a quick way to kind of sort through some |
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of those issues and seeing if it's something that you kind of is up your alley to be able to to to contribute on |
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but a lot of the repos it's not just something specific to us but that they encourage using that particular issue |
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label across different repos so any project that you're following or a part |
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of maybe you're a user of a open source project that's out there outside of our community and you know want to kind of |
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look and see how you can help or you know you've always wanted that to do X or Y and go ahead and see if you can |
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help you know or at least help contribute to that that path but it's a neat little website they've got together |
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today um on this that I thought it was really kind of cool the registration process |
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and everything they seem to outdo themselves every single year a lot of fun |
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um is anybody uh had any good hacktober story uh is out there so far I personally have |
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not done Squad as far as contributing yet but it is on my list for this |
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weekend to try to spend some time has anybody had any uh um stories they want to share about their involvement |
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no pressure no pressure um first I've first I've heard of it oh |
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really it's it's really I mean this is something I've been I look forward to when it gets close to October I'm like |
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gonna start geeking out it's like I mean you're either of course or you're not right you know but it's kind of neat to |
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have a focused month you know of where I don't know it's just motivated awareness |
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of Open Source initiatives and so forth and and you know other people are are |
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contributing at the same time so it kind of energizes you exactly exactly I just like the retrographics on their |
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website it's very retro and you know are scrolling Marquee and like uh 1980s Graphics very cool |
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reminds me of uh just a modern day kind of uh old school computer you know |
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sci-fi movie or something you know a hacking movie um I wonder if they got it from what was |
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that movie uh the uh uh War Games was that it yeah |
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[Laughter] but yeah when you when you uh register |
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out here of course your GitHub username gets associated with your activity and |
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so forth that's kind of how they how they how they track once you get involved they you can get little badges |
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for stuff and you know you can participate a little bit or a lot you know and reap the benefits they even |
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have events that are focused on hacktoberfest we if we were more organized and more available on our end |
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we would have some events that were focused completely on uh October Fest as well but um yeah a lot of fun and get a |
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cool t-shirt or plan a cool tree that would be awesome um one other thing is um and Ryan or |
| 8:41 |
Mark or anybody's involved in the union Summit may want to mention this coming up because I know I haven't seen a whole |
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lot of social um messaging coming out about this but the the upcoming conference in uh |
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February of uh 2023 is set um to be another you know online event |
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and um the site's been updated out here to have all the appropriate information and |
| 9:07 |
the early bird you might want to try to take advantage of that because it'll end |
| 9:13 |
on December the 9th so we have a little bit of time but not a lot of time |
| 9:19 |
um save yourself seventy dollars there if you want to be involved in that this year and I think they have a call for |
| 9:26 |
speakers out as well um yeah let's see here conference |
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a little bit uh I'll mention a couple of things that |
| 9:39 |
are uh exciting to me about uh what we're putting together for this DNN Summit uh so like David's mentioning uh |
| 9:46 |
first off uh call for speakers is open and it closes faster than you might |
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think um so it closes here in the first weekend of November and that might as |
| 9:58 |
well be tomorrow so we have a proud history in the DNA Community if everyone's submitting their sessions the |
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last day or maybe asking and nicely if they can submit them two days after it's |
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already expired so um if if anyone's listening who's in our usuals for presenting then I encourage |
| 10:20 |
you to please try to get in there and do it early uh post your session Concepts you don't have to have them fully fled |
| 10:26 |
fleshed out but if you can put together the outline and submit that then that |
| 10:31 |
would be fantastic if you're not in the regulars and you haven't presented before but you you've got an idea of a |
| 10:39 |
session some you know bit of DNN Corner that you really feel passionate about and that you enjoy teaching or training |
| 10:46 |
about you see it rarely discussed um you know I I give my brother Dustin |
| 10:52 |
it's a good example um he kind of bemoans that there aren't enough sessions for database focused DNN |
| 10:59 |
database information at conventions like this and so my encouragement to him is |
| 11:04 |
well make a session about databases let's talk about it let's talk about performance let's talk about positions |
| 11:10 |
or database side so if you have some good ideas like that put together a session put it out there we'd love to |
| 11:17 |
have you present something new to the audience of of all of us in the community who uh would love to see you |
| 11:24 |
present a couple of other things about um the conference this year we are still |
| 11:31 |
virtual this is the second year uh virtual in a row and uh one of the things that we are |
| 11:37 |
working on our swag packages uh that is right there on the screen um we will have a t-shirt we will have a |
| 11:45 |
few other items that we are sending out if you purchase your tickets in time |
| 11:51 |
especially before the early bird then I personally will be shipping them out to |
| 11:56 |
you so the idea is these are uh Creature Comforts for you in your office while |
| 12:03 |
you are um attending the conference virtual so they are desktop items they are shirts |
| 12:09 |
they are mugs and things like that for you to uh to enjoy and celebrate uh knowing that |
| 12:17 |
you've got math package out to you um and you can enjoy it while you're at the conference virtually so swag |
| 12:22 |
packages that is new for this year and uh me personally that's one things I enjoy about being in person with |
| 12:28 |
everyone is a little Trotsky and swag and uh things like that to get some |
| 12:35 |
sponsors uh number two item um mention is that |
| 12:40 |
there is an ever-changing or evolving situation with recordings for videos |
| 12:47 |
in that I think the very first year we use hop in there were some issues with the recordings the next time it worked |
| 12:55 |
but for a limited time now we really have a good foundation for recordings so |
| 13:02 |
your attendance at the event and and your ticket is going to be even more |
| 13:08 |
valuable now at this point because you will be able to attend the sessions that you're part of but then you'll also be |
| 13:14 |
able to go back and watch every session because they are all being recorded and will be presented so if you have to |
| 13:21 |
convince someone that DNN summon is a great value for you and is a great benefit then this is the screen that |
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will give you those details because for sure you get extra benefits even more than in person because you can see every |
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single session |
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fantastic um Mark do you have anything to to add to |
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any of that or Ryan does an excellent job no I don't think I have anything to add thank you Ryan |
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awesome yeah well that's great um it's always good to to get together uh even |
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if it is virtual uh of course there's some elements of the virtual that I really love and and the fact that get to |
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talk to people that would probably have never shown up at a uh in-person event so that's that's really neat to to be |
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able to to run into folks that you don't normally get a chance to cross paths with so it's one of the big benefits of |
| 14:22 |
the uh the virtual I am hoping to be able to submit some |
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sessions but that deadline is really soon I don't think anybody I mean who has actually heard about the call for |
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speakers yet because I have not until uh till I uh put it on the website |
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be nice to to get that posted out there because I got to fill and it won't be a whole lot of submissions uh so if you |
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know anyone that might be interested please spread the word um you know um and get it out and get the word out |
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on this because it'd be nice to get get a lot of submissions okay |
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um I I guess let me open it up for just a second to see if there's anything in |
| 15:07 |
particular you know this happened in and around the DNA community over the last two months that you'd like to uh |
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highlight or or mention uh otherwise I'm gonna probably just jump right into the |
| 15:19 |
uh to the DNN 911 review here hey I'll jump in and do my usual too |
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sexy um thing if you guys aren't paying attention the two sexy major |
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enhancements and revisions and Bug fixes have been absolutely amazing since they |
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uh came back from their little vacation they do every year so um there's a ton to learn I mean I'm |
| 15:46 |
quite frankly I'm overwhelmed with it I'm having trouble adapting to all the new ways to do things that are obviously |
| 15:54 |
better but um it's worth digging in and learning everything I've touched so far is amazing even just switching stuff |
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over so you're using image flow um there's benefits your cash sizes are |
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smaller things are operating faster um all kinds of stuff little things that |
| 16:14 |
you don't notice the only thing that's lagging still is documentation there's quite a few things I want to learn and |
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there's still no Docs especially related to the whole new settings stack which I think is kind of |
| 16:27 |
exciting but I barely touched it no docs not complaining very excited |
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so I guess the last May uh long-term support release was 7 |
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14 the I could speak 14.7.4 |
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um since then what are some of the some of the highlights that you've seen that you that interest you the most |
| 16:52 |
the ones that are um they're basically the polishing and finishing of things like the formulas |
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are really becoming pretty useful in advance now you can actually do things |
| 17:04 |
like read data uh they've even made the syntax that you used in c-sharp and |
| 17:11 |
razor on the back end nearly identical so you can move stuff into your JavaScript in your formulas and |
| 17:18 |
literally just Access Data the way you do in C sharp there's just amazing little things like that that are really |
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nice they've also uh mentioned image flow um what else is in there that I've been |
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playing with uh you've put me on the spot because I'm like all excited about this stuff but I |
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don't have good examples yeah sorry I didn't mean to put it on oh |
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if you're not using them the the the kits are just amazing being able to do |
| 17:47 |
kit dot whatever those are fantastic if you haven't paid attention to that those are documented |
| 17:53 |
well so start using those kits I'm not familiar with that what is what |
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is that Jeremy kids and he's bundled together all kinds of things you used to do into this thing |
| 18:08 |
called a kit okay um let me see if I can find a link to share hold on a sec |
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and by the way while Jeremy's looking for that um there an idea came up I don't know |
| 18:22 |
maybe three weeks or so ago of uh kind of doing a a meet up every once in a |
| 18:29 |
while just just for two sexy users you know just to be able to kind of get together and share some things and it is |
| 18:36 |
on my list to try to see if I can coordinate that so if you are interested |
| 18:42 |
in that post something in the chat or in the DNN Community slack and just let |
| 18:48 |
know your interest because like I know there's a few of us that are always talking about things uh too sexy and but |
| 18:55 |
it'd be nice to know if there really is more interest than just that and then we can really kind of turn into that into a |
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you know a little more focused yeah that'd be great you know I'll be there |
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um so I posted the link in the chat so you can just see a quick example of how |
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the service kits work um so you can scroll down slightly there's an example right on screen of |
| 19:19 |
turning you know three or four lines of code right there that was pretty common |
| 19:24 |
for the last year and it's now just that oh Nate okay |
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and then if you scroll down further the other big one that I've actually used a lot on a recent project I've converted |
| 19:37 |
all my uh toolbar stuff over to the toolbar Builder and basically for those of you that like um |
| 19:44 |
um Razer Blade and building your HTML that way he's used the same style of |
| 19:50 |
fluent API to build those toolbars and for the first time ever |
| 19:56 |
it's actually easy and useful and it's kind of exciting |
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because I don't know if you guys have been paying attention but when you use toolbars and too sexy there's like four |
| 20:07 |
different versions of the documentation over the years I heard someone laugh was that David yeah yeah and and like you so |
| 20:15 |
I have code from 2018 to now that does the same thing and there's four |
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completely different versions and none of it you retain in your head but this toolbar Builder is very logical it's |
| 20:29 |
much easier to learn and it's documented and I highly recommend paying attention to it so if you like to put those hover |
| 20:36 |
buttons on your page now you have control of them properly so this is more for the quick edit stuff |
| 20:43 |
or is this in replacement of tag yeah don't come this is the replay this is what to use
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