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Overriding the Pager rendering in Orchard
The Pager shape that is used in Orchard to render pagination is one of those shapes that are built in code rather than in a Razor template. This can make it a little more confusing to override, but nothing is impossible.
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ZenGallery: a minimalist image gallery for Orchard
There are quite a few image gallery modules for Orchard but they were not invented hereI wanted something a lot less sophisticated that would be as barebones and minimalist as possible out of the box, to make customization extremely easy. So I made this, in less than two days (during which I got distracted a lot). -
Drawing transparent glyphs on the HTML canvas
The HTML canvas has a set of methods, createImageData and putImageData, that look like they will enable you to draw transparent shapes pixel by pixel. The data structures that you manipulate with these methods are pseudo-arrays of pixels, with four bytes per pixel. One byte for red, one for green, one for blue and one for alpha. This alpha byte makes one believe that you are going to be able to manage transparency, but that’s a lie.
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My Orchard comment notification rule
The Rules module in Orchard enable you to set-up “if this then that” types of rules. The system is fully extensible in terms of what “this” and “that” are of course, but Orchard comes with everything you need out of the box to set-up comment notifications. Let’s create this rule:
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Leaving the Evil Empire
TL;DR: I’m leaving Microsoft to found my own company. My involvement in Orchard continues unchanged.