http://www.davidhayden.me:80/blogDavid Hayden - Orchard Web Developerhttp://www.davidhayden.me:80/blog/webmatrix-database-migration-for-orchard-cmsWed, 15 May 2013 12:46:28 GMThttp://www.davidhayden.me:80/blog/webmatrix-database-migration-for-orchard-cmsI spend 70% of my time as an Orchard CMS Developer in Visual Studio developing custom modules and websites for clients, but the other 30% is developing custom themes using WebMatrix. In addition to creating themes in WebMatrix, I also love the database migration wizard in WebMatrix that will allow you to convert / migrate a SQL Server CE database to a SQL Server Express or SQL Server Database....http://www.davidhayden.me:80/blog/media-manager-and-image-editor-in-orchard-cms-1.7Sun, 12 May 2013 16:59:00 GMThttp://www.davidhayden.me:80/blog/media-manager-and-image-editor-in-orchard-cms-1.7Orchard 1.7 contains a new media manager as well as a number of features to help process and edit media within Orchard. All of this is still in development, but I am seeing new built-in media content types like Audio, Document, Image, and Video; Image Editor and Image Profile content types to edit images and process images; a Media Location Term to integrate media into the Taxonomy Module; Media...http://www.davidhayden.me:80/blog/microsoft-webmatrix-3-web-development-tool-orchard-cmsSun, 05 May 2013 14:16:38 GMThttp://www.davidhayden.me:80/blog/microsoft-webmatrix-3-web-development-tool-orchard-cmsMicrosoft released its WebMatrix 3 Web Development Tool. Most Microsoft Web Developers like myself have probably been developing with the WebMatrix 3 Preview for at least a month or two, but news of the release is great to hear. WebMatrix 3 now supports TFS, Git, and GitHub making version control a breeze. If you are using Microsoft's Cloud Offering, called Azure, you will find it easy to publish...http://www.davidhayden.me:80/blog/microsoft-enterprise-library-6Wed, 01 May 2013 17:57:15 GMThttp://www.davidhayden.me:80/blog/microsoft-enterprise-library-6Microsoft Patterns & Practices released Enterprise Library 6. I still do a fair amount of Enterprise Library and Unity consulting and development for my larger clients so it is good to see the libraries continue to push forward since my PnPGuidance.net days. We're all familiar with the DAAB, Logging Application Block, and Validation Blocks, but in EntLib 6 they have a new Semantic Logging...http://www.davidhayden.me:80/blog/orchard-security-patchWed, 01 May 2013 13:55:41 GMThttp://www.davidhayden.me:80/blog/orchard-security-patchAn Orchard Security Patch was just released to combat an XSS Security Flaw in connection with the Orchard CMS Blog Comment Module. Orchard.Comments is a core module in Orchard CMS so all Orchard Website Owners are asked to patch Orchard.Comments with a recently released security patch. This XSS vulnerability exists in all versions of Orchard CMS up to and including 1.6, so anyone running versions...http://www.davidhayden.me:80/blog/orchard-workflow-moduleFri, 19 Apr 2013 03:41:50 GMThttp://www.davidhayden.me:80/blog/orchard-workflow-moduleLooking forward to the release of the Orchard Workflow Module, which will probably be released around the same time as Orchard 1.7. The Workflow Module will probably replace the Orchard Rules Engine, which I have thoroughly enjoyed up to this point. The Orchard Workflow Module will have similar events and actions just like the Orchard Rules Engine, but offer quite a bit more functionality with...http://www.davidhayden.me:80/blog/webmatrix-git-and-github-source-controlTue, 09 Apr 2013 18:47:14 GMThttp://www.davidhayden.me:80/blog/webmatrix-git-and-github-source-controlI am a big fan of Microsoft WebMatrix and often use it for Orchard CMS Development. WebMatrix 3 preview was just released and it has support for Git and GitHub. You can open websites by providing a remote Git URL or clone a repository in your GitHub account. WebMatrix detects your website is a Git repository and displays a new Source Control Toolbar to perform simple Git commands. It's a...http://www.davidhayden.me:80/blog/mac-hacks-book-reviewFri, 05 Apr 2013 14:34:00 GMThttp://www.davidhayden.me:80/blog/mac-hacks-book-reviewI develop web applications and websites on a Mac in OS X, but I've never taken the time to become an OS X power user. When Mac Hacks, Tips & Tools for Unlocking the Power of OS X, became available as part of the O'Reilly Blogger Review Program I realized now was a good time to dive deeper into OS X. Mac Hacks Mac Hacks reads like a cookbook, and I love cookbook-style books because 1) they...http://www.davidhayden.me:80/blog/instant-angularjs-starter-book-reviewSat, 23 Mar 2013 16:18:00 GMThttp://www.davidhayden.me:80/blog/instant-angularjs-starter-book-reviewPackt Publishing emailed me to see if I was interested in reading and reviewing their new book Instant AngularJS Starter. I am a huge fan of AngularJS and use it for developing single page applications so of course I said yes :) And I am glad I did, because Instant AngularJS Starter is an EXCELLENT introduction to developing web apps with AngularJS. Instant AngularJS Starter Unless I am...http://www.davidhayden.me:80/blog/content-picker-has-content-type-filtering-in-orchard-cmsFri, 15 Mar 2013 15:47:00 GMThttp://www.davidhayden.me:80/blog/content-picker-has-content-type-filtering-in-orchard-cmsThe content picker is an incredibly useful field in Orchard CMS. When it first came out, however, it did not filter on content types which led me to creating my own Content Picker in Orchard CMS With Content Type Filtering and Search. In the upcoming release of Orchard 1.7 we now have content type and part filtering built into the content picker which I will now show in this Orchard CMS Tutorial....http://www.davidhayden.me:80/blog/coding-with-coda-book-reviewWed, 13 Mar 2013 00:08:51 GMThttp://www.davidhayden.me:80/blog/coding-with-coda-book-reviewI'm a big fan of various programming and web development editors on both the Mac and PC. I primarily use Sublime Text 2 and Webstorm, but I own several other free and commercial editors like Textmate and Espresso on the Mac. I have always been intrigued by Panic's Coda, but it always seemed to be a bit more about aesthetics than actual functionality when I weighed the pro's and con's. With the...http://www.davidhayden.me:80/blog/shape-link-for-orchard-menusWed, 06 Mar 2013 16:34:49 GMThttp://www.davidhayden.me:80/blog/shape-link-for-orchard-menusThere is a new Shape Link in Orchard for adding custom shapes in Orchard Menus and Navigation. This will be released as a part of Orchard CMS 1.7, but I thought I would add it to my Orchard Tutorials now so Orchard Web Developers can prepare for it. This is all possible thanks to the pluggable navigation released in Orchard 1.5. I talked about the pluggable navigation some time ago in Dynamically...http://www.davidhayden.me:80/blog/dom-enlightenment-book-reviewFri, 01 Mar 2013 17:54:00 GMThttp://www.davidhayden.me:80/blog/dom-enlightenment-book-reviewI joined the O'Reilly Blogger Review Program for books like DOM Enlightenment. It is an insightful and easy-to-read book about manipulating and traversing the DOM with JavaScript as opposed to an abstract library like jQuery. This is a great look at fundamentals and very useful for better understanding JavaScript libraries, like jQuery, Zepto, etc. In cases where you are creating an HTML 5 hybrid...http://www.davidhayden.me:80/blog/orchard-content-type-widget-layer-ruleFri, 22 Feb 2013 16:05:00 GMThttp://www.davidhayden.me:80/blog/orchard-content-type-widget-layer-ruleThere is a new Content Type Layer Rule in Orchard CMS that allows you to add widgets when a specific content type is displayed in Detail View. This type of Orchard Layer Rule is perfect when you want a widget to be displayed only when a page, blog post, product, or other content type is displayed in your Orchard website. This new widget layer rule is available in the Orchard 1.x source code now,...http://www.davidhayden.me:80/blog/learning-from-jquery-book-reviewSun, 17 Feb 2013 16:53:29 GMThttp://www.davidhayden.me:80/blog/learning-from-jquery-book-reviewLearning from jQuery is a book for those developers familiar with jQuery and wanting to use that knowledge to better understand JavaScript and even use that JavaScript knowledge to write better JavaScript code for jQuery. Throughout the book you will see examples on how to achieve solutions to common problems in both jQuery and JavaScript as well as JavaScript specific language features to give...http://www.davidhayden.me:80/blog/orchard-cms-bootstrap-skills-widgetFri, 15 Feb 2013 14:51:03 GMThttp://www.davidhayden.me:80/blog/orchard-cms-bootstrap-skills-widgetI love Twitter Bootstrap and I love creating Orchard Modules that support it. A lot of my Orchard Training is using an Orchard CMS Bootstrap Theme and various Orchard Modules for it. Earlier I mentioned the Bootstrap Carousel Widget for Orchard CMS, which is just one of a number of widgets. Late last night I created a Bootstrap Skills Widget for kicks. Twitter Bootstrap Skills Widget for Orchard...http://www.davidhayden.me:80/blog/orchard-cms-module-for-page-view-statisticsTue, 12 Feb 2013 18:10:00 GMThttp://www.davidhayden.me:80/blog/orchard-cms-module-for-page-view-statisticsI developed an Orchard website for a client that wanted a quick and easy way to see trends in page views for routable content types like Pages, Products, Blog Posts, etc. The website was already backed with various hard core analytics. This request was more for casual use when managing store products or blog posts. They just wanted a simple bar graph that showed X days of page view statistics...http://www.davidhayden.me:80/blog/jquery-mobile-facebook-panelFri, 01 Feb 2013 17:34:30 GMThttp://www.davidhayden.me:80/blog/jquery-mobile-facebook-panelIt just so happens that jQuery Mobile comes out with 2 killer features, responsive tables and facebook-style panels, just when I can use them on a project. Responsive tables in jQuery Mobile allowed me to rip out custom code to achieve a similar and much better solution, and now the new panel in jQuery Mobile provides a fantastic solution for displaying configuration screens, shopping carts, and...http://www.davidhayden.me:80/blog/jquery-mobile-and-responsive-tablesTue, 29 Jan 2013 16:26:00 GMThttp://www.davidhayden.me:80/blog/jquery-mobile-and-responsive-tablesjQuery Mobile is a fanstastic framework for developing mobile websites for smartphones and tablets, especially iOS devices like the iPhone and the iPad. In jQuery Mobile 1.3.0, the jQuery Mobile development team focused on responsive web design as well as a bunch of additional features like Facebook type panels, etc. I am particularly excited about their development efforts around responsive...http://www.davidhayden.me:80/blog/orchard-cms-training-and-developing-seo-meta-tags-moduleTue, 22 Jan 2013 00:03:05 GMThttp://www.davidhayden.me:80/blog/orchard-cms-training-and-developing-seo-meta-tags-moduleThe other day I mentioned teaching Orchard Training where we built several Orchard CMS modules, including a Carousel Widget for Twitter Bootstrap. Check out the following post: Orchard Training and Twitter Bootstrap Carousel Module. In addition to the Carousel Widget, we also developed an SEO module, called Meta Tags, to help with one aspect of search engine optimization of your Orchard...