Orchard 1.1 looks pretty slick, but also pretty complex.
However the upgrade did not go smoothly at all - before upgrading the site I attempted to install the latest version of the BlogML module, with which to take a backup. The only effect was to totally break the site - yellow screen on any URL. So, a bit of recent data has been lost. This is painful, but I will see what I can recover.
I've been enthusiastically tweeting about and from my new Google Android Nexus S phone. It's a lovely little phone with so much inside it. I felt that shiny-new potential way about the G1 running Android 1.5 when I got one about 2 years ago, too. Now it seems so dated and clunky in comparison. Such is the pace of change.
One software feature, I think, is badly misdesigned. This handset is my personal phone, which I have bought and paid for. But it would help to be able to read work emails on it from time to time. The 2010 iteration of Outlook Web Access is slick, but a native mail client is prefereable. So I entered the exchange server mail details into the email app, but stopped at a dialog asking me if I wished to accept the mail administrator's security control over the phone.
This blog stopped working, some time around Friday 1 October 2010. I know that it worked on Thursday night, and that it was broken on Saturday. Orchard had gone wrong, and it was showing a yellow error page including a compilation error: The type or namespace name 'Comments' does not exist in the namespace 'Orchard' Continue reading...
The About link on this site seems to be failing frequently with a 404 error. This is due to a known isue in Orchard. Hopefully it will be fixed in a release soon. Continue reading...