uComponents is in the top 10 Best rated packages

uComponents is in the top 10 Best rated packages, and is still in beta wooot!....

uComponents is a collaborative project for creating components for Umbraco including data types, XSLT extensions, controls and more.

Currently uComponents consists of 17 data types, 3 very useful XSLT extension libraries, and some great utilities to make consistent data types.

I made a bunch of fixing and featureing to the uComponents last night so its really taking shape, only 6 issues left atm. :-)

So I think that we will make a final release very soon.

Though the code is top quality tested, we still need to do a lot of documentation

you can download uComponents here

Beta http://our.umbraco.org/projects/backoffice-extensions/ucomponents
Code http://ucomponents.codeplex.com/

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!..

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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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!..

Juhuu got certified

Just got "Umbraco Certified Professional" Level 2 developer, juhuu!... :)

så now I can put this nice little logo on my website


The test went good. 100 points out of 100 so no complains at all.
see result
Howto become a "Umbraco Certified Professional" Level 2 developer

New Feature ChildrenAsTable

Umbraco V3 offers many things! and one og them is you now have the posibillity to get you Nodes as a datatable object.
This is great if you love your Usercontrols, repeaters and databinding :)

Niels Hartvig have written an article about how to use the datatable "ChildrenAsTable"

Its a good article, but there is some confusion when you need to get the properties from a node.

Normally when you need a property you retrieves it with the alias, so I tried to make a simple test.
<asp:repeater id="Repeater1" runat="server"><itemtemplate> <a href="'<%#">'><%# Eval("NodeName")%></a> <%# ((DataRowView)Container.DataItem)["umbNaviHide"]%> </itemtemplate></asp:Repeater>

This gave me an error on the umbracoNaviHide, and I thougt whats was wrong with that?

After some debugging I found out that you needs to use the name of the property instead of the Alias, so it looks like this:

<asp:repeater id="Repeater1" runat="server"><itemtemplate>
<a href="'<%#">'><%#Eval("NodeName")%></a>
<%# ((DataRowView)Container.DataItem)["Hide in navigation"]%>
</itemtemplate>
</asp:Repeater>

And then it just worked :)

/Happy coding
Read Nielses article here
<a href="http://www.umbraco.org/documentation/books/what" target="_blank">http://www.umbraco.org/documentation/books/what's-new-in-v3/new-feature-nodefactory-as-datatable-object</a>