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A poll macro for Umbraco
A web poll is a useful way of gathering opinions from your site users. It is also one of the most trivial pieces of web functionality that you could write.A friend who is a java developer and has never really used .net or Umbraco wanted to see a real world example, so I put this together for him real quick (he was impressed).http://darren-fergusoncom.site.securepod.com/development/polldemo.aspxI’ll look at releasing a package at some point. It is implemented as a Macro that takes a question and a delimited set of answers as parameters. -
Umbraco package repository discussion
There was a very good web chat yesterday about the Umbraco 3.0 package repository. Details are here. http://www.umbraco.org/10722.aspx -
Poll Macro needs improving
A while back I posted a Poll macro for Umbraco. There was a reasonable amount of interest, so I posted the source. As the original post says, this was just a very quick demo and I thought that the method of storing responses would need improving. Niels posted a link to the demo on the Umbraco site and as a result it got several hundred responses which slows down Umbraco when trying to acess the node where the responses are stored in the GUI. This post is just to advise against using this Macro on production systems until I (or someone else) get the chance to improve it. -
Poll macro source
I've had a few requests for the Poll macro source to be released. I am very busy at the moment, so I am just posting the ascx and associated c# for now. Those of you who wanted a complete package will have to wait a week or so I am afraid... an e-mail. - If you use the Poll on a for profit site please consider making a donation using the link at the bottom of the right hand navigation. To get you started here is how the Macro tag looks for the demo <?UMBRACO_MACRO macroAlias="Poll" Width="350" ResponseStoreNodeId="1201" Question="What does Umbraco need most?" Responses="More documentation;Database/OS independence;Better Blog extension;Forum extension;Other"> </?UMBRACO_MACRO> Note: The width property -
intro-uk.com goes live with Umbraco and Flash
After several months waiting for approval the Intro website is live. Umbraco feeds XML to a flash front end build by web maestro Rich Salter. Site design was done internally by Intro. Believe it or not, despite all of my interest in Umbraco, this is my first site to go live other than my own domain! -
Umbraco Backup license clarification
I get quite a few questions about Umbraco Backup licensing, so here is clarification about what each licensing model means. Personal/Non-Profit: For any type of not for profit web site e.g. charities and blogs. The license is tied to a fully qualified domain name e.g. www.mysite.com. Single Umbraco instance: For a single commercial site, tied to domain name in the same way as a non-profit license is. Server license: Allows you to install Umbraco Backup within as many Umbraco instances as you like on a single physical web server. All domain names for these sites *must* resolve to the same IP address. If you have two web servers you need two licenses. Changing the server IP is fine, the license is based on a domain, as long as all -
Feed Cache package for Umbraco
I've created an umbraco package that will cache XML feeds - or any other http URL - to disk on your web server. Click here to download the package The idea came about as a lot of people are displaying feeds on their web pages - flickr feeds, twitter etc. In Umbraco you can cache marcos that read external URLs, but ultimately when the cache expires one user will have to take the hit of requesting this external URL as part of their page download. If the third party server is down - which twitter frequently is - then this can result in a hefty wait until the request times out. Instructions for using the package are in the readme prior to installation so be sure to read this before proceeding with the install. Questions, comments -
Important Umbraco backup information
As a result of user feedback, it seems that a few people are having an issue with failed backups as a result of using a backup target directory under your web root. This is because Umbraco backup tries to backup it's own target zip file, causing some process conflicts. This issue will be fixed with the release of 1.1, however, unless you have to,Do not backup under the webroot. Google and other search engines can index zip files and their contents. One user has already made me... will not let you write anywhere other than your webroot, 1.1 is coming soon, but please note that you should download your backups from your server and remove them from the web root upon completion. -
RSS feed aggregation using Yahoo pipes
I've been digesting some of the information on day two of codegarden and in particular this post that contains a list of 'most wanted' packages. I'm unsure who requested RSS feed aggregation but before anyone were to dive in and start coding it may be worth having a look at Yahoo pipes. As yahoo say: Pipes is a powerful composition tool to aggregate, manipulate, and mashup content from around the web. I've been using pipes for some time to consolidate all of the Umbraco... RSS output to your Umbraco web server, possibly using some kind of Macro, but I'd recommend using a scheduled task and simply writing the feed to the file system as pipes with multiple feeds may impair your page load time - if for example one -
Rolling with Ruby on Rails
I've been hearing a lot of buzz about Ruby on Rails, so I finally got down to running through the tutorial at: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/01/20/rails.html Pretty impressive I must say, but the jury will be out until I get to try and build something ‘real world’ with it. This might not be for a while, as all of my spare ‘geek’ spare time is being invested in Umbraco at the moment. I am pretty sure it would handle any of the web projects that usually land at my feet, but it always comes down to whether I ‘like’ it or not. Also, I did a brief search for UK based shared hosting packages that support ROR and only managed to find one.