Orchard Hungary: Recent Posts
-
Orchard university subject starting in February
We're happy to announce something that some of you (those who attend/watch the weekly community meetings) may already know:
as tutors, we'll begin the first official university subject built around Orchard at the Óbuda University in February. The participants will start by exploring ASP.NET MVC and then dive deep into Orchard module and theme development. Since we're still university students, this is something of a great magnitude for us, not to mention that all the 20 places for our course were filled in 2 days: here's the evidence!
Update: the subject's capacity was increased to 24 places but again it's full.
-
Orchard Training Demo module updates
We just made some notable updates to our Orchard Training Demo module:
- File management demo with IStorageProvider
- Background tasks
- Events
- Unit tests
- And an awesome "map", and index file about the contents of the whole module where we abused C# to give you a conveniently traversable table of contents. This contains keywords (like "permission", "repository") and a pointer to where to look for an example in the module about them.
Check them out! And we'd be happy to hear your feedback!
-
Orchard development tutorial module released! - Orchard Training Demo
Yesterday we released our new module: the Orchard Training Demo module. This module serves as a tutorial: it guides you through learning Orchard development by showing many examples with plenty of explanation (and covers almost everything we listed under the topics of module development). If you're starting with Orchard now, check it out!
-
Associativy modules released to the Gallery!
Associativy, the Orchard-based knowledge graph platform just got its first release! Well, technically it was released a while ago in August but this is the first time the modules consisting Associativy are also released to the Orchard Gallery, not just as downloadable source packages.
-
Orchard Harvest sessions on YouTube
You have probably come across with the videos recorded at the Orchard Harvest Summit 2012, but if you haven't, I have a surprise for you! :)
Including sessions given by the Orchard Hungary Team (Zoltán's about SEO and my session about migrating to Orchard), you will find 9 great presentations in the playlist below at the moment, and the rest of them will arrive soon too. Stay tuned! -
Tested Orchard on Azure Virtual Machines - and it rocks!
I recently played a bit with the new Azure Virtual Machines and Orchard 1.6. With Benedek we migrated Orchard HUN to an Azure VM (extra small instance) using SQL Azure to try it out and... ...and it's blazingly fast. Seriously. Orchard flies, even with every caching disabled. So very impressing!
-
Orchard PHP scripting demo on the Budapest PHP Meetup
Yesterday's PHP Meetup in Budapest also featured Orchard. This is not a mistake: I demoed the PHP scripting engine we recently developed.
-
3-2-1.6!
Yesterday we finally upgraded our sites to 1.6 (it's been sitting in the repository for a while), though we had to face some difficulties with the Web Deploy process.
-
Orchard Training materials and corresponding module releases (introducing the External Pages module)
As you may noticed we have a new menu item: Training. There we collect all the topics and supporting materials not just for our Orchard course but also generally for Orchard trainings. So if you'd like to hold an Orchard training for your colleagues or fellow tech enthusiasts in you local community don't hesitate to use our materials. Just drop us an e-mail first as per the licence, we'd really like to know who teaches Orchard around the world.
-
A tale of experince with spam bots and Custom Forms (and Rules)
We have been experiencing some weird behaviour from our email notification rule, which sends an email to our Orchard Hungary mailing list with the message details when a contact form is submitted on our pages. In detail, the weird behaviour was that we received a notification almost every day and the emails were empty (aside from the nicely configured and tokenized message skeleton). The emails we receive also contain a link to the submitted contact form content item, which displayed a 404 page, however, the content item ids were incrementing.
I have to confess: we ignored it for a while. :)