In this series, I'll reverse-engineer algorithms from video games dating back to that time when the CPU was all you had. Today, we're looking at Dungeon Master, a fantastic game by FTL that set the gold standard for RPGs for the years to follow. It looked amazing, and still does to this day. It changed everything.

A game developer from the UK (whose name we can't disclose) got in touch with us in August regarding their newly developed online game: the game was running on Orchard but was too slow shortly before the release date. The company asked us to do a review of the whole application and to give advices on improving performance.

Today is Lombiq’s 8th birthday. On this special occasion, we have gathered 8 important factors of our company's life. We are glad that we took these steps at that time otherwise we might not be able to celebrate with our strong community here today.

After installing VS Code on Ubuntu 20.04 as well as the Docker VS Code extension, the VS Code extension displayed an error when it attempted to list the various Docker containers and images as well as connect to the Docker registry. The VS Code error displayed connect EACCES /var/run/docker.sock and questioned me if Docker was actually running. I've never received this error when using the Docker...

As a Microsoft developer, I mainly use Azure for all my cloud services needs, whether this be for ASP.NET Core MVC, Web API, and Razor Pages development or Orchard Core development. Azure Storage is a critical piece of the Azure cloud services along with the Azure Web App Service and SQL Server Database services in most of my development projects. More complex projects will use Azure Functions,...

When .NET5 and C# 9 was released I eagerly began developing ASP.NET Core web applications and web API's using the new features. The C# 9 Record Types are especially handy as well as features in EF Core 5 like better handling of many-to-many relationships. As an Orchard Core developer I eagerly awaited for .NET5 and C# 9 support in Orchard Core as well. It took longer than I had hoped, but in the...

This week we will do some deep dives and take a look at the latest changes of Fluid 2. After, you can see how you can register your custom resources in Orchard Core and how to use the updated code generation templates with .NET 5! Check out our post for more!

The Application Insight module is now available for Orchard Core too! Check out our current post for tons of updates like the new HeadMeta zone alternate, the now() helper function in SQL Queries and many more!