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Teched Preview
Inspired by the Microsoft Tech Ed Europe website I decided to create a new Orchard Project theme called Teched. Currently the theme is only an HTML mock up so now the process of converting it in to a theme begins. Watch this space for more progress.
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Serious Blue Released
Okay, so technically it was released last week but I've been a bit slack in updating the blog. Anyway, my latest Orchard Project theme is now up in the gallery ready for you to use on your website. You can find out more about the fully responsive theme and some of its features here.
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Feeling lazy part two
In my earlier post I talked about the lazy observable collection I created so that I could lazy load an observable collection so that I wasn't loading the entire collection until it was absolutely necessary. As a companion to that piece of work I also created a lazy read only observable collection. This brings the same features as the lazy observable collection except with advantage, depending on your viewpoint, of being read only.
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Feeling lazy part one
As part of a project I've been working on recently I needed to bind a potentially quite large collection to a listbox, due to the unknown size of the collection I didn't want to load it into memory until I actually had to. To get around this problem I decided to create a new lazy observable collection class that would leverage the power of IQueryable to delay loading of the collection until it's actually required.
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Swayvillage.co.uk launches
We'll my latest website, swayvillage.co.uk has now launched and is available to the world at large and, once again, it's powered by the excellent Orchard Project CMS which gets better and better with each release.
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Creating the Contact Form
Whilst creating my site I wanted to have a simple contact form to allow visitors to get in touch with me without necessarily exposing my email address to all and sundry, fortunately there are a number of modules available for Orchard that provide this functionality, unfortunately none of them were quite the right fit for my needs. But rather than roll my own I decided to use one of the existing modules and customise it to my needs.
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My feeds passes certification
Well, version 1.0 of My Feeds has now passed certification and is now sitting in the Marketplace waiting for people to show it some love, not that I am expecting a great deal. In it's current incarnation My Feeds is just a neat, simple RSS reader, the question is where do I take it now?