Sassy Studio SCSS on Visual Studio

instructions here

I decided to try a different extension for VS2012.  Hope it's great.

Treasure! CSS/HTML coding standards

google style guide

There are many on the net. 

Treasure! - dumb reminders

So I'm playing around with Orchard trying to create a module, trying to connect on sqlserver (no dice), etc. But because of securty settings on my computer (I don't have true admin settings) IT'S HELLA HARD TO GET STUFF TO WORK!

However there is one way to bypass some admin rights that is running a prog as admin.
right click on program and choose run as admin.

CMS Umbraco vs Orchard

I have decided to experiment with these 2 products.  Since they seem to have a lot of potential.

• ASP.NET MVC
• Open source (free?)
• large support community

Currently I have done the install and played around with the interface, creating pages, links, apply themes...  And so far I'm liking Orchard in accomplishing these tasks. 

Orchard has a quite detailed set of functions that is easy to find and does what you would expect to see.  As for Umbraco it has an easy to use interface but maybe too easy as it seems difficult to find the functions I want to use.  I'm not sure if I'm looking at a simplified view. 

Performance wise Umbraco seems to load faster.  Since this is back end work the only concern should be the front end performance which I believe will excel in speeds.  (I have read that Orchard has too much stuff).

Next step is creating a module on each CMS.

CMS Umbraco - install VS2012

Very simple instructions here

CMS Orchard - Manual Install

I've been looking at different CMSs that use ASP.NET and came across Orchard CMS.  It's a CMS that is created by Microsoft(c), open source and "similar" to Wordpress(c).

How to Manually Install in VS2012
Orchard.source.zip

1. Unzip the source put it in your projects directory.
2. Open the sln file in VS.
3. Build and run.

There will be an intial setup and account creation.  After that you are ready to roll!

Or if you don't use VS2012, etc.
Orchard.web.zip

Follow instructions from here
Ensure you have the latest ASP.NET

1. Get the latest .zip files of the Web and Source.
2. Put the unzipped web files into inetpub/wwwroot folder.
3. Modify the security for 4 folders:  App_data, Media, Modules, and Themes. (edit: also bin folder)
4. Open iis (edit: right click folder select install as app) and create a new site for Orchard.

note: to create modules you use codegen

Back in Business

Ok so i haven't posted in almost a year.  But i'm back in business starting today coz i'm gonna learn!