Blog
This is our company blog with news about Lombiq: Announcements about new open source projects, new services and products, case studies about customer projects, and more. For Orchard Core and Orchard CMS tutorials and community news check out our Orchard training website Orchard Dojo!
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Laying the foundation of a sporty community - Lombiq's part in a new gymnasium
PhilanthropyHere at Lombiq sometimes we "give back" not just to open source projects, but also to local communities of ours. In the town of Solymár, Hungary an initiative was started that we could support: Fészek Waldorf School together with Parthus Sport Association wanted to build a new gymnasium, which would not only serve the school's pupils but also the town's 10 000 residents.
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Algolia search integration for Orchard CMS
Orchard module, Algolia, SearchIf you haven't heard of it, Algolia is a pretty neat hosted indexing/search service; it's a bit like Lucene in the cloud, but extremely fast. Now thanks to our new Algolia Search module you can very easily plug in Algolia search into Orchard CMS!
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Atlantis Programs has a new look and further updates are coming!
Orchard, Pedalheads, Development, Wordpress, Atlantis Programs, Foundation for SitesThe relationship between Atlantis Programs and Lombiq started in January of 2014 - less than a year into Lombiq's existence - when we migrated their website from Wordpress to Orchard with regards to theming and content. We have worked on a few other tasks regarding hosting and performance since then as well.
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A new website for .NET Foundation, using Orchard of course
Orchard, Development, .NET FoundationIf you're a .NET developer, you must have heard of .NET Foundation: they basically take care of a lot of legal and administrative stuff for you if you're running an open source .NET project. They needed a new website, they wanted to use Orchard, they came to Lombiq!
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Let's do science! - Partnership with Wigner Research Centre for Physics
Partnership, WignerIt's called Lombiq Technologie_s_ for a reason: While day to day we are deep in Orchard CMS development we also strive to build our R&D bigger and bigger. Now Lombiq just got closer to the world of science!
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Orchard in Switzerland: working with inteno ag
Orchard, Development, Orchard upgrade, Localization, Multi tenancyA Swiss company, inteno ag is some all around tech company: apart from custom software development services they offer product information management and publication management systems, as well as cloud computing resources. And they use Orchard, wouldn't you guess? That's how we met.
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Helping CarolinaMLS deliver a new Orchard-based web presence
Orchard, Advisory, Development, ContributionThe Charlotte Regional Realtor Association®, or more precisely Carolina Multiple Listing Services® got in touch with us to get some hands-on help with launching their new Orchard-based websites. The Association represents more than 9000 Realtors® (real estate professionals) in the Charlotte (North Carolina, USA) region.
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Git-hg Mirror is now open source!
Release, Open source, Git-hg MirrorThe code behind our two-way Git-Mercurial sync service Git-hg Mirror is now open source! We're quite an open source company with dozens of projects on GitHub but up until now the code of Git-hg Mirror was private. Why? Simply because we didn't think it's worth open sourcing (being a very specific solution) and it was just easier not to do it. But suddenly several people nudged us in the last weeks so it's now all open source! Check out the Git-Hg Mirror Daemon and Git-Hg Mirror Common repos on GitHub!
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If you're an Orchard developer, do we have a Visual Studio extension for you!
Release, Orchard, Visual Studio, Lombiq Orchard Visual Studio ExtensionA long time ago you had to write Orchard code by hand, like cavemen. Then the era of code-writing code came when Orchardizer was released. Now we add our own take on an Orchard developer's Visual Studio extension, introducing Lombiq Orchard Visual Studio Extension with an enterprise-level long name!
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Big improvements arrived to the Liquid Markup module
Release, Orchard module, Liquid MarkupOur Liquid Markup Orchard module now got a lot smarter! The module enables you to create templates (from the admin or from code) in which you can use the Liquid Markup language. This is a bit more restrictive than e.g. Razor what you may usually work with when developing Orchard. However still it's quite powerful and now we have the following new features:
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How about some magic: turning software into hardware
Hastlayer, FPGAAs you may have heard we were in London last week at ProgSCon, a diverse conference for programmers. And we turned software into hardware with Hastlayer! Do you want to see how we do this?
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Big Orchard Project for Big Company from the UK
Orchard, Big project, SASS, LESS, Slack, JIRA, Octopus DeployMore than 10 Orchard developers, net 120000 lines of code and 17000km flown between Hungary and the UK - all this within 5 months. What are we talking about? Our latest Big Project!
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Access our open source projects on Bitbucket and GitHub!
Good news everyone! We're happy to announce that all our open source projects are now available not only in Mercurial, but in Git too on GitHub!
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Lombiq Fields Orchard module released with some useful content fields
Release, Orchard, Open source, Content fieldsFields in Orchard are simply to use ways of building your own content: you can enrich content items to store a variety of data in the available fields. With our Lombiq Fields module we now add two new ones: Media Library Upload Field and the Money Field.
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Orchard training for the Microsoft MCIO team
Training, Microsoft, MCIOMicrosoft is not a company that needs introduction - but one that needed Orchard training. More specifically the Microsoft Cloud Infrastructure and Operations (MCIO) team (who supply the infrastructure for all Microsoft divisions, including Windows, Bing or even Azure) reached out to us: before starting a big Orchard project they wanted to have some expert help.