Orchard and Lucene: getting started with custom search – problems with booleans

by Oliver 12. September 2011 01:46

Update: I filed a bug in the Orchard issue tracker and it’s already been fixed. Nice work! We’ve just started to build our own customized search module. The goal is to have checkboxes for all searchable boolean properties of a given ContentPart and search by checking or unchecking them. In Orcha... [More]

Orchard CMS: module settings not visible in Admin area? placement.info is the key!

by Oliver 9. September 2011 22:29

Today I went off to create a custom search module for our new Orchard based web application. I simply copied the module Orchard.Search, renamed all namespaces and such to Teamaton.Search, replaced some strings and prepended a prefix of “Teamaton” to a bunch of them. I wanted the new module to be abl... [More]

Rendering problem with flot 0.7 and excanvas in IE8

by Oliver 8. September 2011 02:41

On Camping.info, we use flot 0.7 with jQuery and asynchronous updates for internal click statistics visualization. Unfortunately, we’ve been having some trouble with our flot graph – but only in IE8 and only sometimes! This has been really annoying, especially since we’re expecting a usage growth of... [More]

Application development with Orchard

by Oliver 7. September 2011 01:02

A while ago, we decided to build discoverize – our generic portal software inspired by www.camping.info – using Orchard, “a free, open source, community-focused project aimed at delivering applications and reusable components on the ASP.NET platform.” We will write about our experience with Orchard... [More]

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MSBuild and Visual Studio 2010 generate different DLLs

by Oliver 6. September 2011 22:18

Recently, we encountered a quite surprising behavior of MSBuild – the continuous integration build of our new collaborative Todo Management app (we hope to go into beta soon!) would produce a broken version whereas the local build with VS2010 was all smooth and well. Our admin and tester already pos... [More]

Missing Index: CREATE NONCLUSTERED INDEX

by Oliver 17. August 2011 18:28

Lately, we encountered a problem with the speed of our search on www.camping.info for a certain set of search criteria. It sometimes used to take over a few seconds before the updated results were shown. This most likely seemed to be a problem with the database so I went to investigate the offending... [More]

NHibernate Save – System.ArgumentNullException: Collection cannot be null

by Oliver 22. July 2011 18:45

Today I hit a quite subtle bug setting up persistence for our soon-to-appear new todo management tool. Since we’re building on ASP.NET 4 I simply used the ISet<T> and HashSet<T> types in the System.Collections.Generic namespace for all entity collections, e.g. 1: using System.Collecti... [More]

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JSON Import In .NET

by Anton 22. July 2011 13:37

Bantam Is Quitting Services We as teamaton were using bantam for all of our todos. At the beginning of this year bantam was bought by ConstantContact, and they announced that bantam will cease services as of July 1. Since we are developing our own todo management tool (see our blog), we decided to ... [More]

Creating a new module in ‘discoverize’ – using multi-file templates and good ol’ batch scripts

by Oliver 15. July 2011 09:07

For our portal software discoverize I was looking for a way to create new modules faster and more reliably. The basic structure would always be the same, so a Visual Studio multi-file template seemed appropriate: Well, unfortunately I didn’t find a way to create new folders with that approach. Mu... [More]

Code evolution + LINQ

by Oliver 28. June 2011 01:27

Three year old code: 1: protected string CpeBehaviorIds() 2: { 3: var cpeIds = ""; 4:  5: var helpItems = GetHelpItems(divGlobal); 6:  7: foreach (var helpItem in helpItems) ... [More]

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shades-of-orange.com code blog logo I build web applications using ASP.NET and have a passion for javascript. Enjoy MVC 4 and Orchard CMS, and I do TDD whenever I can. I like clean code. Love to spend time with my wife and our children. My profile on Stack Exchange, a network of free, community-driven Q&A sites

About Anton

shades-of-orange.com code blog logo I'm a software developer at teamaton. I code in C# and work with MVC, Orchard, SpecFlow, Coypu and NHibernate. I enjoy beach volleyball, board games and Coke.