On the second day of the Orchard Harvest, we had the chance to attend great sessions with awesome speakers.

This year, the 3rd conference Orchard Harvest has been organized in Redmond on the Microsoft campus on June 9th-11th. Keynote: The State of Orchard Speakers : Ylan Kunstler - Bertrand Leroy Bertrand gave us a little idea of the state of the project. Orchard has released 20 versions in the last 5 years. 666k downloads on Codeplex, 6.1 modules downloads on the gallery. 92k messages on the Codeplex forum, 3000 questions on Stack Overflow   High Density Hosting with Orchard on Azure Speakers : Sebastien Ros Sebastien talked about the migration of the 750 blogs of http://weblogs.asp.net/ on Azure in a single Orchard instance. The cost to host all of these blogs is just 350$/month. See Jon Galloway’s article for more details.   Themes, Layouts and Slideshows - Onestop Speakers : Jorge Agraz, Eric Perez – OneStop They are one of the early adopter of Orchard. 40+ of their websites are using Orchard and they develop module to build their own ecommerce solution. A public repository is available to retrieve some of the modules they share with the community.   Proligence, Projects, and Open Source Speaker : Piotr Szmyd (CTO) Piotr listed 3 modules that Proligence share as Open Source projects. A testing framework for Orchard, a WCF library, and a PowerShell integration of Orchard.   Created by Hellocomputer - Built with Orchard Speaker : Samuel Goldenbaum Samuel showed some web sites built with Orchard using web api and Backbonejs: http://toyota.co.za/, http://www.visitjamaica.com/, http://www.fcb.com/ An Ipad app has also been created using Orchard as backend.   Azure Media Services Speakers : Ross Gardler, Roopali Kaujalgi - Microsoft Open Technologies The Azure Media Services module enables you to connect to WAMS, upload your assets, encode and play the videos. It has been integrated in the core modules.   The Future of Widgets Speaker : Steve Taylor

The Orchard Harvest conference will be held in just a few days (June 9-11) on the Microsoft Campus in Redmond. If you are already using Orchard or just want to learn more about it then you definitely have to come. It's 3 days full of really great content, case studies, and exchange.

I recently found a question on Orchard's forums asking for some explanations to query data directly from the database. Here is my take on this.

The conference Orchard Harvest 2014 will be held in Redmond at the Microsoft Campus during 3 days from Monday, June 9 to Wednesday, June 11, 2014.

After 6 months of hard work and wife complaints I have finished to rewrite Jint.

So you've got a bunch of Page content items in your Orchard instance, but nowadays Orchard is getting popular and everybody has Page content items. But you started to use Orchard before it got cool and Pages are now too mainstream. How can you make your existing Pages unique again? Well, you could change them to use you very own content type, BakelitePage!