by Oliver
25. July 2013 11:44
We've been working on our customizable portal software discoverize for about two years now using Orchard CMS. From the beginning we were convinced to use Specification By Example to build up a live documentation of the functionality of our software. This has been very important to us since we plan t...
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by Oliver
24. June 2013 23:08
worker_processes 1; # http://nginx.org/en/docs/ngx_core_module.html#worker_processes Thanks to http://www.theunixtips.com/how-to-find-number-of-cpus-on-unix-system for helping me find out how many processor cores our VPS is using. Fixing the painful "24: Too many open files" error in NGI...
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by Oliver
19. June 2013 11:39
The scenario I'm facing quite regularly during development is that I want to change to a different feature branch that really someone else is working on to do some maintenance or the like. I know that I can just fast-forward my local branch to the current HEAD of the corresponding remote branch, but...
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by Oliver
17. June 2013 13:59
This is just a short post to draw your attention to a sweet tool I've just discovered: PNGGauntlet. It runs on Windows using the .NET 4 framework and is as easy to use as you could possibly wish. Also: it's completely free to use. Convert Your Existing PNGs For starters, we'll just convert some ex...
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by Oliver
14. June 2013 18:09
These are session notes, so they might not adhere to the standards of a complete blog post, but there's a bunch of inspiring info that I had to get out of my head… Shapes – Overview What are they dynamic data model can be updated at runtime replaces static(ally typed) v...
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by Oliver
13. June 2013 15:30
These are just quick notes from one of the sessions at the Orchard Harvest conference currently taking place in Amsterdam. Fluid Grids bootstrap-responsive SimpleGrid 1140Grid FooTable hides columns, shows content in expandible elements Fluid Fonts Fi...
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by Oliver
13. June 2013 15:27
This post is most of all a log drop of an SMTP session I had with our mail server over telnet. We use hMailServer for all of our own and hosted e-mail accounts. Today, I set up a new account to use for our SQL servers to report any problems. I couldn't get SQL Server's DatabaseMail to successfully ...
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by Oliver
13. June 2013 15:17
Some part of MVC 4 didn't like what was in my view: 1: @using Orchard.ContentManagement;
2: @using Orchard.Users.Models;
3: @{
4: var userCanRegister =
5: @WorkContext.CurrentSite.As<RegistrationSettingsPart>().UsersCanReg...
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by Oliver
13. May 2013 11:41
Today, this question came up on the SpecFlow Google Group: Assuming I would like to define in Gherkin the following: 1. When I send some argument xxx with parameter aaa and another parameter bbb 2. When I send some argument xxx with parameter aaa And I would like to have only one reusab...
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by Oliver
9. May 2013 12:20
During automatic frontend testing, some of our tests recently broke, which were trying to connect a Google account to our new TeamReview application using OpenID. Those tests used to make sure that on Google's confirmation page the checkbox to remember my choice was unchecked. I'd like to show a scr...
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