by Oliver
21. September 2013 11:08
In day-to-day development on discoverize, our Orchard based custom portal software, I use CompactView to look into my local instance's SQL CE database file if that's what I need to do. Dropping a Table from my Orchard.sdf Database Today, I was experimenting with some migrations code and needed to ...
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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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