Umbraco - moving servers

Umbraco is moving servers tonight, so the website is down atm, so I got this friendly message!..




If you re looking @23:10 Niels is still smiling, even though he made a little mistake late at night.

That's what I call "umbraco spirit"

Keep up the good work Niels, and thank for a great CMS!..

Test .NET solutions and SVN with powershell

Developer consultants are often working with several projects during each day, and between colleagues, and there is nothing wrong with that, as long that you have your projects in version control.

@ Ebita (where I work) we are using Subversion and Visual SVN for VS200x IDE and its working great.

Every time I have worked on a project I commit my changes, but to ensure that the projects still compiles in a fresh clean checkout, I check all the code out in a different folder and compiles the project.

This is a manual process "Click checkout,open solution in VS,Click Rebuild button,check for compilation errors"

I don't like manual processes, if it can be automated, why isnt it so?
I installed powershell on my new laptop a few days ago, and thought let me see how easy it can be done with that.

Here is the code

$svnProjectName = "test_svn_project"
$svnUserName = "foo"
$svnPassword = "bar"
$visualStudioSolutionName = "test.sln"
$CheckoutPath = "C:\test\testFolder"

"//////////////////////"
"Get project from svn"
"//////////////////////"
[diagnostics.process]::start("svn.exe","checkout svn://svn/$svnProjectName $CheckoutPath --username $svnUserName --password $svnPassword").WaitForExit()

"//////////////////////"
"Rebuild .NET..."
"//////////////////////"

c:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\msbuild.exe "$CheckoutPath\$visualStudioSolutionName" /t:Rebuild /p:Configuration=Release

"//////////////////////"
"Finsished test deleting project"
"//////////////////////"

rm $CheckoutPath -recurse -force

"//////////////////////"
" DONE "
"//////////////////////"


Happy shelling :-)

LéLé - Hot food, Cool website!

Me and my wife went out for dinner a few days ago on a vietnamese restaurent called LéLé placed i copenhagen.

The food was hot healthy and none fatty with alot of taste.

The atmosphere was Asian/New Yorker style, really cool!

LéLé has 2 cool websites:

Umbraco website: http://lele-nhahang.com/
TakeAway http://www.allezallez.dk/


The websites is made by Ebita


Try it next time you visit copenhagen, you wont be dissapointed.

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CNUG - Ny hjemmside

Jeg var lige inde og tjekke CNUG "Copenhagen .NET User Group" for at se om der kommer nogle arrangementer som kunne være interessante for mig.
Så i den forbindelse at de havde fået fået skiftet det gamle design ud med et nyt og pænere et. derudover kører det også på umbraco (ved ikke om det også gjorde det før) - tjek det ud her http://cnug.dk/

Du kan også tilføje dig gruppen på linkedin hvis du har sådan en http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1837948#h207-619

Næste interessante arrangement var vist noget med en geekdinner og nogle bajere, måske man skulle se hvad det er for noget....

Enlarge your VPC

I have now used Microsoft VPC for some time now, and went into disk space problems.


I didn't realy know howto fix this problem, but after som googling i found a way to fix it in 2 steps.

1.wmtoolkit - vhd resizer to enlarge my vhd image.
2. Downloaded and run partition manager home http://vistaguide.dk/?EaseusPartitionMaster3.0HomeEdition/Diverse/Programmer/784#

CMS utopia with umbraco

I have worked with different cms's the last 4 years, and must say that umbraco is really showing off these days with version 4.0. and is in the top 12 download ranking on codeplex - really cool.

Some new features in umbraco is Canvas, Web PI and performance, to name a few.

Canvas : Is live editng of content really cool, read more

Web Pi : install umbraco in a single click

Performance : The umbraco UI has made a great performance boost from v.3 to v.4, and umbraco says "Umbraco 4 is blisterngly fast and performs with reponsivness of a desktop application" and it actually feels like that some time!..

Read the whitepaper

There is still som features that I would like in the future, primarily the use og attributes, instead of using xml files, examples of this will come in another post later :o)

May the Umbraco force be with you!..

MS Virtual PC 2007 and screen resolution problem

I just got my new awsome "Dell from Hell" laptop!..

My laptop is running vista ultimate and works as a Virtual PC server.

This is all great, but I ran into a little problem with the screen resolution.
The problem was that im using 1920x1080 on my laptop and the VPC can't give me that resolution, so the VPC was surrounded with a black frame every time I went to fullscreen, and that was quite anoying.

I found a fix - well it's not a real fix, but it works until Microsoft update their s3 trio driver to handle my resolution.

The fix is to start VPC, and then connect to it via Remote Desktop.

If anyone knows a better fix, please let me know :)