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252 days ago
With the launch today at MIX09 of Microsoft’s Windows Web Application Gallery we are thrilled to announce that Umbraco is already integrated with this excellent platform. We worked hand-in-hand with the Microsoft Web Team to quickly integrate the latest Umbraco release (4.0) with the Windows Web Application Gallery. With Microsoft’s revision to the Web Platform Installer and Web Deployment technologies we believe the case for building your web solution on the Microsoft Web Platform is irrefutable. (We at Motus Connect have made this assertion from the founding of out practice.) Using the Web Platform Installer a user can now install and configure all the components of a web solution (even a PHP-MySQL solution!) using a single interface – the enormity of this set in when I was setting up a new web server and wanted to install the Microsoft Web Platform, MySql, ASP.NET MVC, and Umbraco. Until now that process entailed visiting numerous different web sites ...
268 days ago
In preparation for this year’s Umbraco Codegarden 2009 in Copenhagen I decided to try and obtain an award-travel itinerary from Seattle to Copenhagen. For last year’s Codegarden I purchased an itinerary on SAS in coach for nearly $2,000 (USD). Although SAS offers a very convenient direct Seattle to Copenhagen flight, the level of comfort was low and the cost high – I arrived tired, stinky and found working (which we were there to do) very difficult. Having heard the extreme pessimism surrounding the ability to actually locate and book one of these itineraries without being forced to use the higher point requirement (200,000), I was not very optimistic. I collect most of my award points in Continental’s OnePass program and also have an American Express card which earns points that are transferrable to the OnePass program. All in I had 96,000 points available in the OnePass program. Note: these points do seem to add up fast as I had previously booked an award ...
274 days ago
A message I received this morning has again caused me to consider if and how we will implement registration keys and licensing for the Umbraco Store. A search through my Google Mail archives tells me we’ve had at least a dozen inquiries with regard to this feature – all in favor. While we consider the least intrusive way to implement this, please take a moment to tell us your opinion. Please vote here I’ll update this post with our approach as soon as its decided – this week if all goes well. -Paul
293 days ago
This is a tip that is so simple I’m a little embarrassed to post about it. But, some of the front-end developers were thrilled by this, so what the heck. I am lucky to work with a group of very talented external front-end developers that have access to some of our Umbraco installations. To date, I’ve given them access to the Content, Media, and Settings areas in the UI. Of these, the Settings area is the most ‘sensitive’ as it allows them to view all templates and document types in the installation and has the risk of inadvertent changes to underling templates. The goal was to allow them to input their beautifully crafted XHTML without worrying about what Tidy or TinyMCE might do to it. Of course, using a SimpleEditor or Textbox Multiple data type is an option, but this allowed them to view only a small portion of the code at a time. As a solution, I’ve used the Textbox Multiple data type and edited the related CSS and created a nearly full-screen view for these ...
