New Climbfind Branding!
Big thanks to one of my team volunteers Devin!!
Contents tagged with Climbfind
Creating a custom Orchard CMS Module that reads data from the central Climbfind.com database
My goal for this module is to show my “climber profile data” and my “recent check-ins” on my Orchard Homepage site on the ‘CF Activity’ menu tab.
Climbfind is launching a whole new site at the end of April. This new site has a WCF Data Service that exposes lots of OData queryable goodness. I’ve decided I’m going to use that to get to my data, because I don’t really want to touch Orchard’s data stuff for as long as I can. I’m not interested at all in NHiberate and would really have preferred the team to have used Entity Framework.
So a quick overview of WCF Data Services from someone who has just gotten into them. A WCF Data Service is an extension of a normal WCF Service. It’s not a different beast as I had originally thought. Basically it allows you to access some form of data exposed as an IQueryble property on your service using url conventions talked about on the OData Website. A WCF Data Service = An OData Service implemented using WCF. You can also add custom operation to perform domain driven business actions. The big gotcha is that everything is done by restful http requests.
Climbfind
The 2011 Climbfind Team
New Kresner.com & getting back into Microsoft's Orchard CMS
I was one of the early adopters back in May-Jul in 2010. Kresner.com was the first live Orchard v0.5 site. It took a lot of hacking to get it together and after quite a few weekends trying to sift through and understand Orchard under the covers, I came to the decision that the pre-release Orchard codebase was too complicated for me. The platform also didn't meet some very basic requirements that I needed to put together some brochure style websites for a few clients - so I put it on the shelf hoping it would mature and be ready for another time.
I think that time has come! After playing with it for a day yesterday - I covered a lot of ground quickly. It's feeling more ready for some real world action - so I've decided to upgrade kresner.com from Orchard v0.5 to v1.01 and restart my Orchard blog, documenting my experiences and honest opinions from the trenches. As you can see from the intro above, this is not an advert for Orchard but my pure experiences to share with the .net community and help others decide whether it's a good idea to jump onboard.