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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Dojo Course, our free and open online Orchard course opened!
Announcement, Dojo CourseWe are very happy to announce that we just opened our free and open Orchard course, Dojo Course on our Orchard training site Orchard Dojo. The course runs in parallel with our Orchard university subject on Óbuda University: students and online participants will receive the same tutorials, same notes and supportive materials and they also have to deliver the same project work to complete the course. The course's syllabus is what we'll follow this semester until December.
This all is very exciting, and we hope not just for us! If you'd like to learn Orchard from the ground up, this is a good opportunity to do so! How about enrolling?
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We've broken the Internet with downloadable content items
Release, Orchard module, Orchard, Open sourceOur new Download as... Orchard module brings the ability to download content items as files: currently HTML or PDF. This means you can give automatic download links for your contents on your Orchard sites (something that's our profession to develop). The module even cares about flattening hierarchies of content that are defined with container-contained connections. We already use the module so you can download the vast knowledge collection of Orchard Dojo Library.
You can see a demo of the module on the Orchard podcast.
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New Lombiq Antispam Orchard module, already in the Orchard core
Release, Orchard, Open sourceA bit more than a week ago we demoed a new Orchard module of us on the Community Meeting, Antispam. The module contains only one small but useful feature, a content part (JavaScript AntiSpam Part): this part prevents clients not running JavaScript from posting content item editor forms. What this means is that content item forms (like comment forms or contact forms) employing this part can't be posted by spambots, since spambots commonly don't support JavaScript fortunately.
Following the decision on the meeting we also quickly added this feature to the built-in Orchard.AntiSpam module, so if you're running the latest Orchard source (like the Lombiq sites do) you can already use JavaScript AntiSpam Part! We use it and it really works!
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New Orchard modules: Watcher and Route Permissions
Release, Orchard module, Orchard, Open sourceAt Lombiq we believe in open source and empower it how we can: for example we routinely release open source Orchard modules that are freely usable by anyone on their Orchard-driver websites. Recently we created two modules: Watcher and Route Permissions.
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Helping GI Joe Search & Rescue get back on track with their website
Case study, EmergencyOn Friday we completed a short but important emergency assignment: getting the GI Joe Search & Rescue team's website back online. The website was moved to a new hosting company but wasn't feeling all right (the standard IIS 404 page greeted the visitors). This was especially problematic given that the team needed the website for their communication on the weekend.
That's when we got contacted on behalf of the team and started investigating. After checking the logs and verifying the integrity of the deployment we recognized the source of the error: although the site's database was seemingly restored all the tables were empty! Running the restore again fixed the database and thus solved the issue altogether.
Naturally we didn't charge the team for this emergency fix: they don't charge you when you need their help either!
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Lombiq is now a BizSpark startup!
Announcement, BizSparkWe applied to participate in Microsoft's BizSpark program and found to be eligible for participation. This is great news since with BizSpark we've won the opportunity to get enough support for making our services better. We'll embrace this awesome program and try to make the most of the BizSpark-backed year!
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Our new Orchard module, Associativy Internal Link Graph Builder released
Release, Orchard, Open sourceWe recently released a new module of ours, Associativy Internal Link Graph Builder. This module lets you automatically build Associativy graphs by parsing internal links between content items. Associativy graphs are networks of connected content items that can be visualized, explored and searched in many ways, creating a unique form of content display. The Orchard Dojo Graph runs on Associativy too and uses our new module.
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Orchard Harvest logo - a sneak peek
Orchard HarvestThis is the Orchard Harvest logo that Apor Püspöki, our associate designer created:
This logo will be printed on the Harvest t-shirts too, that Lombiq is sponsoring.
Apor by the way designed also two of our websites: Lombiq.com and OrchardDojo.net.
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Lombiq sponsors Orchard Harvest!
Orchard HarvestThis year's Orchard Harvest conference in Amsterdam is something we are really looking forward to. That's why we also decided, despite our company being in its infancy, to sponsor it: Lombiq will provide the Harvest t-shirts for the attendees this year.
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Lombiq announced on the Orchard Community Meeting
Orchard, AnnouncementAs you may know, Orchard's community meets on Tuesday every week at 20 o'clock GMT in a Lync meeting room. On today's meeting we took the opportunity to announce and also a bit present Lombiq and Orchard Dojo.
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Lombiq just started to boil!
Day0, Announcement, Orchard Dojo, Orchard HarvestHello and welcome to the beginning of the existence of Lombiq - a company we want to be something inspiring, exciting and innovative.
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Lombiq's first open source projects
Release, Orchard module, Orchard theme, Orchard, Open sourceLombiq maintains and/or provides commercial support for multiple open source projects, Orchard modules and themes, as you can see under our GitHub profile. There are two projects that we actually published along with the founding of Lombiq: Pretty Good Bootstrap Base Theme and Orchard Read-only.