Orchard

Benedek is one of the founders of Lombiq, and the caretaker of Orchard localization. Application localization requires taking into account cultural differences such as gender, formal vs informal, pluralization, right to left, verbosity, accents, etc.

In the first session of the second day of Orchard Harvest, Steve Taylor showed how to build a new theme for Orchard Core. All the pieces are already in place for building themed sites, and the work is similar to Orchard 1.x themes, except for some json file editing because of missing admin UI in places.

I bought my first camera recently and have been snapping many awful snaps as I bumble around the world. Now, when you take a photo in portrait mode, the camera doesn't do any expensive rotating or anything, it just adds a little tag in to say that ... [More] this photo should be displayed like this. So when you open the photo in your photo viewer on the laptop, bam, it looks great. Upload to Orchard? Damn all my photos are sideways. I had no clue what was going on at first but after reading a blog post about what an EXIF tag is, deeming myself an expert, I set about fixing it. [Less]

Ever tried to edit a post that has more lines than your text area in TinyMCE? Scroll down and poof the toolbar is lost. You cant do anything! It is terrible. Here is a simple extension for Orchard to make the toolbar static.

Nick Mayne is one of the main developers working on Orchard 2.0, a.k.a. Orchard Core. Orchard Core started as an MVC application, but this had several challenges with multi-tenancy and Glimpse integration. To solve those problems, Nick moved things ... [More] around so MVC actually is a module instead. I found that really interesting as I had implemented something really similar when I built DecentCMS: Express is loaded as a module, for each tenant. [Less]

Today was the first day of the Orchard Harvest conference 2017 in New York.

Rob King works for Bede Gaming, which specializes in providing a platform for gambling web sites. The company moved to Orchard in 2013, and has strong scalability requirements, with sites serving millions of requests per day.

Taylor Mullen from the ASP.NET team is a developer working on MVC Core 2.0. In this session, he went over the design of the new Razor Pages feature. He carefully explained what is difficult with MVC currently, in order to justify the feature. He ... [More] actually started by showing what it’s not: it’s not PHP-like, and it’s not a new take on previous “ASP.NET Pages” features. [Less]

Daniel Stolt and Chris Payne from IDeliverable presented some new output caching techniques that they’ve developed. The problem that they’re solving is what happens when you have to output user-specific data into rendered contents. In those cases ... [More] , you want to cache the constant parts of the output, while keeping holes dynamic. This is known as donut caching. [Less]

Jorge Agraz is opening the conference after Sébastien Ros’ keynote with a talk about using external data in Orchard. Jorge work for Onestop, a company that builds e-commerce sites. Their web sites get their commerce data from APIs and then used to ... [More] display that through their controllers with Orchard shapes. They attempted to use widgets instead of controllers, but that came with some significant maintenance problems. [Less]