Dojo Blog
Our blog contains the activity stream of Orchard Dojo: general news, new resources or tutorials are announced here.
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First Orchard CMS Workshop in Mumbai
Introducing Abhishek Luv, Orchard Dojo Trainer!, Orchard CMS Workshop, Orchard CMS Workshop In MumbaiOrchard CMS Mumbai User Group will be conducting the First Orchard CMS Workshop in Mumbai "Introduction To Orchard CMS and Theme Development" on 2nd Nov 2014.
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Introducing Orchard Beginner
Orchard Beginner, Getting Started with Orchard CMSAre you confused, frustrated or intimidated about how to begin or get started with Orchard? Have no fear Orchard Beginner is here. Orchard Beginner is created with the aim to provide users and developers to have a Beginner's Guide to learn the ins and outs of Orchard.
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Introducing Abhishek Luv, Orchard Dojo Trainer!
New Orchard Dojo TrainerWe welcome our new trainer, Abhishek Luv! You surely know Abhishek from the Orchard discussion board or from one of his online Orchard courses like the popular "Orchard CMS Tutorial for Absolute Beginners". From now on Abhishek is officially among the trainers of Orchard Dojo and thus also offering his Orchard training services through the Dojo too.
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Forum favourites: independent transactions in a post-TransactionScope world
Community resource, Forum favourites, TransactionsA quick explanation on how you can create a transaction independent from the ambient transaction in Orchard. Only for hardcore Orchard developers!
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Orchard Spring Harvest Challenge - Results
Orchard Harvest, Harvest Challenge, DotNestOn the last (third) day of this year's Orchard Harvest we announced the results of the Orchard community's second module development competition, the Orchard Spring Harvest Challenge. The amount of submissions may be small ("only" 6), though in quality they certainly made up for it. The top 3 places are the following:
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Live from Seattle - Orchard Harvest Day 3
Orchard Harvest, Harvest 2014, Orchard Harvest SeattleThis is the third day of Orchard Harvest! The downside is that it's the last day, though it's really great that this is the first Harvest with three days (instead of two). Sébastien is today's keynote speaker sharing his long-term vision regarding Orchard. Sébastien also enumerates the important aspects of Orchard and its community, most of them centered around openness. To make Orchard better, we need to learn from other systems and communities!
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Live from Seattle - Orchard Harvest Day 2
Orchard Harvest, Harvest 2014, Orchard Harvest SeattleThe second day of Orchard Harvest is on! Our keynote speaker is Damien Edwards, Senior Program Manager in ASP.NET talking about how to use AngularJS in ASP.NET. He shares a lot of pieces of knowledge on how to build powerful single-page applications with a small amount of code. AngularJS is a client-side MVC framework with a ton of features that allow you to write input-heavy UI with highly reusable code, it's actually quite Orchard-y! On a sidenote, we at Lombiq also use AngularJS for most of our projects, including the ones we create for our clients and DotNest too!
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Live from Seattle - Orchard Harvest Day 1
Orchard Harvest, Harvest 2014, Orchard Harvest SeattleThe third Orchard Harvest conference, held in Seattle, just began! Orcharders from all around the world gathered together at the Microsoft campus to share their experiences about their favourite CMS.
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Checking your infoset data consistency after upgrading from 1.x to 1.8+
Database, Advanced, Upgrade, InfoSet, Orchard 1.x, Orchard 1.8, QueryMany Orchard developers, including ourselves act as early adopters of the Orchard source and use the code from the 1.x and other work-in-progress branches. While it gives us the opportunity to try the new features and get the latest bugfixes, some changes introduce important bugs every now and then. That was the case lately on the 1.x branch, when a problem surfaced regarding the infoset storage: for shifted, versionable content parts the infoset data was not saved in the ContentItemVersionRecord table, but into the ContentItemRecord table instead. Sébastien discovered this issue before 1.8 release and provided a method to fix it, along with a well-detailed description on the Orchard discussion board.
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Chirping birds on the web: a little insight to understand the data management in Orchard
Community resource, Database, Content managementSébastien just tweeted about his new blogpost to tell you how Orchard manages the content items' data in the database by demostrating simple use-cases and the corresponding queries. It's a great read even if you're new to Orchard or a seasoned veteran!
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Orchard Spring Harvest Challenge has begun!
Orchard Harvest, Harvest Challenge, DotNestIn case you haven't heard from the Lombiq content network and its neighbours, a module competition named Orchard Spring Harvest Challenge has begun yesterday! The aim of this contest is to give Orchard module developers some more motivation to upgrade their old modules to Orchard 1.8, or create new ones that are compatible with latest version of Orchard. You can find more information on the event's (DotNest-hosted) website.
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Advanced Orchard: accessing other tenants' services
Tutorial, Multi-tenancy, AdvancedMany using Orchard's multi-tenancy feature sooner or later want to share data between tenants or generally, execute some operations on other tenants from one tenant. This is possible! Let's see how.
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Beginning with Orchard: what to start with?
Tutorial, BeginnersSo you'd like to begin exploring Orchard because somebody sold Orchard to you. This is great! Now probably your next question is: how should I start, how can I try Orchard in action? Glad you asked. There are several simple and less simple ways, all free, so let's see. We'll start with the easy ways and build up the tension so you end up with the most complicated one if you want to become an Orchard developer.
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Thank you for everybody participating in Dojo Course!
Dojo CourseUPDATE (2017-11-22): Dojo Course 2 is released with new, updated videos!
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Last lesson: viewers' requests - Dojo Course
Dojo Course, Facebook, Antispam, C# scriptingUPDATE (2017-11-22): Dojo Course 2 is released with new, updated videos!
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Useful and interesting services to enhance your features - Dojo Course
Event handlers, Dojo Course, Background task, Scheduled taskUPDATE (2017-11-22): Dojo Course 2 is released with new, updated videos!
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Client-side development and a little more of the Orchard API - Dojo Course
Tutorial, Dojo Course, Dojo, Model binder, File storageUPDATE (2017-11-22): Dojo Course 2 is released with new, updated videos!
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End of Dojo Course nearing! What do you want to learn a bit more about?
Dojo CourseUPDATE (2017-11-22): Dojo Course 2 is released with new, updated videos!
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Forum favourites: precompiled, bulk content item insertion, AngularJS and theme development
Community resource, Forum favourites, Precompiled, JavaScriptThis time on Orchard forum favourites:
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Diving into the Orchard API - Dojo Course
Tutorial, Dojo Course, Authorization, LazyField, Permissions, Content managementUPDATE (2017-11-22): Dojo Course 2 is released with new, updated videos!
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Content Part development continued - Dojo Course
Tutorial, Dojo CourseUPDATE (2017-11-22): Dojo Course 2 is released with new, updated videos!
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Forum favourites: multi-node Orchard, community features and low-level data access
Community resource, Database, Forum favourites, Multi-node setup, Social, NHibernateForum topics from the Orchard discussion board that we found interesting:
- Running Orchard on two nodes: this is a tricky thing but in this discussion there some good tips
- Community features in Orchard: a lot of built-in and third-party modules bring "social" functionality to Orchard. You won't be able to just install Contrib.Facebook but there are some decent fundamentals.
- A tale of database table locking, transactions and low-level data access in Orchard: sometimes you just have to bury deeper.
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Data storage and content part development - Dojo Course
Tutorial, Dojo CourseUPDATE (2017-11-22): Dojo Course 2 is released with new, updated videos!
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Module development continued - Dojo Course
Tutorial, Dojo CourseUPDATE (2017-11-22): Dojo Course 2 is released with new, updated videos!
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Have you started your Dojo Course project yet?
Dojo CourseUPDATE (2017-11-22): Dojo Course 2 is released with new, updated videos!