http://www.sarasota.me:80/blogOrchard Web Development by David Haydenhttp://www.sarasota.me:80/blog/orchard-website-upgraded-to-orchard-cms-1.5.1Thu, 16 Aug 2012 15:09:00 GMThttp://www.sarasota.me:80/blog/orchard-website-upgraded-to-orchard-cms-1.5.1About two weeks ago I upgraded this Orchard Website to Orchard CMS 1.5.1. Everything is running smoothly just like my other websites on Orchard 1.5.1: DavidHayden.me and DavidHayden.com. I suspect in the next few weeks we may see a new version of Orchard running on ASP.NET MVC 4, Web API, Visual Studio 2012, and NHibernate 3. Looking forward to that release as well! A few Orchard Tutorials I...http://www.sarasota.me:80/blog/orchard-cms-1.4.2-releasedTue, 22 May 2012 17:01:07 GMThttp://www.sarasota.me:80/blog/orchard-cms-1.4.2-releasedTwo quick Orchard CMS releases by the Orchard Developer Team. Recently I downloaded and installed Orchard 1.4.1 for a client and now Orchard 1.4.2 has been released! Looks like 6 important bugs fixed in Orchard 1.4.2. Orchard 1.4.2 Bug Fixes According to the Orchard CMS Issue Tracker the following bugs were fixed in Orchard 1.4.2. Issue# 18700 - Comments module not appearing Issue# 18683...http://www.sarasota.me:80/blog/orchard-themes-and-html-helper-for-accessing-current-orchard-theme-folderFri, 11 May 2012 17:06:19 GMThttp://www.sarasota.me:80/blog/orchard-themes-and-html-helper-for-accessing-current-orchard-theme-folderAs an Orchard Developer there are times you need to access an asset within the current Orchard Theme Folder from a view. Since the current Orchard Theme can be easily changed by the Orchard Administrator on the fly, you obviously can't hardcode a path. You need some way of programmatically determining the path to the current Orchard Theme. As with most things in Orchard, there is an HTML Helper...http://www.sarasota.me:80/blog/umbraco-5.1-released-asp.net-mvc-cmsFri, 27 Apr 2012 20:53:00 GMThttp://www.sarasota.me:80/blog/umbraco-5.1-released-asp.net-mvc-cmsNote: Umbraco has discontinued Umbraco 5 citing it was too slow and complicated. Although I prefer Orchard CMS, I've been spending a great deal of time learning Umbraco and recently Drupal. Umbraco v5 is a CMS based on ASP.NET MVC just like Orchard whereas Drupal is based on PHP. However, as I mentioned after reading Using Drupal, Orchard CMS was inspired by Drupal so it is pretty eay to...http://www.sarasota.me:80/blog/the-journalist-orchard-theme-in-orchard-1.4Tue, 13 Mar 2012 20:11:07 GMThttp://www.sarasota.me:80/blog/the-journalist-orchard-theme-in-orchard-1.4In addition to the Orchard 1.4 features found in What's New in Orchard 1.4 as part of my Orchard Tutorials, there are also a lot of little changes in Orchard 1.4. For those Orchard Web Developers who have been developing Orchard Websites, Modules, and Themes for awhile, you are very familiar with the default Orchard Theme, The Theme Machine, which has been in Orchard CMS since day one....http://www.sarasota.me:80/blog/orchard-website-upgraded-to-1.4-autoroute-projector-module-and-new-fieldsFri, 02 Mar 2012 06:40:42 GMThttp://www.sarasota.me:80/blog/orchard-website-upgraded-to-1.4-autoroute-projector-module-and-new-fieldsOrchard 1.4 was released the other day and today we upgraded our Orchard Website to Orchard 1.4. We wanted to take advantage of the bug fixes and performance enhancements as well as the new routing provided by Autoroute and Alias, the projector module, and a number of new fields that can be attached to Content Types. Be careful when upgrading Orchard to 1.4 as the change from the Route Part...http://www.sarasota.me:80/blog/orchard-cms-developer-meetingWed, 22 Feb 2012 19:05:07 GMThttp://www.sarasota.me:80/blog/orchard-cms-developer-meetingIf you are an Orchard Developer and interested in the new features of Orchard 1.4, be sure to attend a virtual Orchard Developer's Meeting on Tuesday, March 6, 2012 from 8:00 AM to 9:00 AM (PT). There are two topics being presented by two different presenters. What's New in Orchard 1.4 How to run Orchard on Azure You can find out more information on Matt Harrington's blog and/or you can...http://www.sarasota.me:80/blog/custom-404-error-pages-with-orchard-cmsSun, 15 Jan 2012 22:32:59 GMThttp://www.sarasota.me:80/blog/custom-404-error-pages-with-orchard-cmsI received an email from an Orchard Web Developer asking how to create a custom 404 Error Page with Orchard CMS. This task is very similar to another developer request recently on how to display a Google SiteMap File ( site.xml file ) with Orchard CMS. As with the Google SiteMap File, this isn't really an Orchard CMS question, but more of an ASP.NET MVC and Web.Config challenge. Although there...http://www.sarasota.me:80/blog/orchard-authentication-module-secure-pagesSun, 18 Dec 2011 18:19:02 GMThttp://www.sarasota.me:80/blog/orchard-authentication-module-secure-pagesDeveloping Orchard Websites is fun, especially when the Orchard Website requires a custom Orchard Module to extend the functionality of Orchard that isn't provided out-of-the-box or in the Orchard Gallery. In addition to developing Orchard Websites and custom Orchard Themes, I develop a lot of Orchard Modules for clients. From time-to-time I like to mention custom Orchard Modules I develop, and...http://www.sarasota.me:80/blog/send-email-when-blog-post-publishedWed, 16 Nov 2011 14:55:46 GMThttp://www.sarasota.me:80/blog/send-email-when-blog-post-publishedI haven't heard much noise about the Rules Engine in Orchard CMS so I thought I would just simply post an image of how easy it is to create a rule in Orchard that sends an email when a blog post is published. Now, of course, you can create numerous rules, and I created an Orchard Tutorial showing you just that: Rules, Tokens, and Forms API in Orchard CMS. However, sending an email when a blog...http://www.sarasota.me:80/blog/blog-post-created-on-date-and-time-in-orchard-cmsWed, 26 Oct 2011 00:21:59 GMThttp://www.sarasota.me:80/blog/blog-post-created-on-date-and-time-in-orchard-cmsI have been blogging a lot of tutorials lateley on Orchard CMS and the new features in Orchard 1.3. In particular, I have created Orchard blog posts on Markdown Support for Pages, Blog Posts and Content Authoring, Previewing Unpublished Blog Posts and Pages in Orchard 1.3, Deleting Content Types in Orchard 1.3, and recently the new Title Part and ITitleAspect in Orchard 1.3....http://www.sarasota.me:80/blog/head-first-jquery-book-reviewSat, 22 Oct 2011 13:52:19 GMThttp://www.sarasota.me:80/blog/head-first-jquery-book-reviewI just finished reading Head First jQuery, which I received as part of the O'Reilly Blogger Review Program. Head First jQuery is my first Head First Book. As the title implies, Head First jQuery is focused completely on web designers and web developers new to jQuery and even JavaScript. In fact, Head First jQuery doesn't stop there, it also teaches basic PHP and SQL using MySQL as it pertains to...http://www.sarasota.me:80/blog/upgraded-website-to-orchard-1.3Mon, 10 Oct 2011 17:42:20 GMThttp://www.sarasota.me:80/blog/upgraded-website-to-orchard-1.3As I mentioned earlier, Orchard 1.3 was released this past week with a number of really cool features! I've been ugrading client websites and found a little time this past week to upgrade my own Orchard Website. Upgrading from Orchard 1.2 to 1.3 was uneventful, which is the way I like it. While upgrading to Orchard 1.3 I also changed the Orchard Theme. The original Orchard Theme was the first one...http://www.sarasota.me:80/blog/orchard-13-releasedTue, 04 Oct 2011 16:40:05 GMThttp://www.sarasota.me:80/blog/orchard-13-releasedWe're very excited about the release of Orchard 1.3 today. We have already upgraded a client website from Orchard 1.2.41 to Orchard 1.3.9 this morning and everything looks great. Lots of bug fixes and improvements in Orchard 1.3, including: Content Item Preview, Forms API, and Tokens to name a few. Orchard Web Developers will particularly enjoy the ability to delete content types and parts as...http://www.sarasota.me:80/blog/orchard-cms-navigation-admin-menu-and-localnavFri, 23 Sep 2011 03:37:53 GMThttp://www.sarasota.me:80/blog/orchard-cms-navigation-admin-menu-and-localnavThis is another quick Orchard CMS Tip. The other day while building a custom Orchard Module for a client I wanted a tabbed navigational interface in the administrative dashboard. If you're an Orchard Web Developer, you have seen the tabs when choosing Content, Modules, or Themes from the dashboard's administrative menu. The tabs, which are referred to as Local Navigation items, provide a nice UI...http://www.sarasota.me:80/blog/javascript-web-applications-book-reviewWed, 31 Aug 2011 16:24:51 GMThttp://www.sarasota.me:80/blog/javascript-web-applications-book-reviewI had the pleasure of reading a copy of JavaScript Web Applications by Alex MacCaw from O'Reilly over the summer while it was still in early release. Even in early release form the book was an absolute joy to read. The book not only discusses techniques and patterns for developing web applications using the popular MVC pattern, but it discusses techniques for building your own JavaScript MVC...http://www.sarasota.me:80/blog/firefox-scratchpad-for-javascript-developmentTue, 23 Aug 2011 14:41:19 GMThttp://www.sarasota.me:80/blog/firefox-scratchpad-for-javascript-developmentIn Firefox 6 Mozilla has added a JavaScript Scratchpad to their Web Developer Tools. This allows JavaScript Developers to enter JavaScript into the Scratchpad and execute and debug it. This is much more handy for web developers than entering JavaScript into the console. If you enjoy experimenting and developing with JavaScript and use Firefox for your main browser, you may want to download...http://www.sarasota.me:80/blog/html5-and-css3-support-in-visual-studio-2010Thu, 04 Aug 2011 12:49:11 GMThttp://www.sarasota.me:80/blog/html5-and-css3-support-in-visual-studio-2010HTML5 and CSS3 are important standards for developing websites, but Visual Studio 2010 SP1 does not offer intellisense and validation against these W3C Specifications. However, Microsoft Visual Studio Developers can now download a free Visual Studio Extension, called Web Standards Update for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 SP1, that provides support for HTML5 and CSS3 in Visual Studio! As an...http://www.sarasota.me:80/blog/jquery-intellisense-in-microsoft-expression-web-4Sun, 24 Jul 2011 15:07:43 GMThttp://www.sarasota.me:80/blog/jquery-intellisense-in-microsoft-expression-web-4Expression Web 4 is a web design and development IDE from Microsoft. We've been mentioning the new features in Microsoft Expression Web 4 introduced in Service Pack 2. Two features we have mentioned are the image thumbnail previews of images selected in the folder list as well as code snippets to increase web developer productivity and reduce errors. Another new feature in Microsoft Expression...http://www.sarasota.me:80/blog/web-design-using-expression-web-4-snippetsFri, 22 Jul 2011 15:46:55 GMThttp://www.sarasota.me:80/blog/web-design-using-expression-web-4-snippetsLet's continue our look at the new features in Expression Web 4 SP2. Last time we mentioned the new thumbnail preview for images selected in the folder list. This time we are focusing on the snippets panel that allows web designers and developers to easily copy and paste reusable snippets into the code view in Expression Web 4. Snippets Panel in Expression Web 4 SP2 Most Web Development IDE's,...