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  • Block Content Type Picker for Flow Part and Bag Part, Christmas in Lombiq - This week in Orchard (19/12/2025)

    12/19/2025 10:48:59 AM

    Orchard Core updatesMove GetAllCulturesAndAliases to the default implementationPreviously, the ILocalizationService interface had a static default method, GetAllCulturesAndAliases(), that returned a list of all cultures available in the system along with their aliases. Hisham Bin Ateya replaced this method with an instance method, allowing developers to customize the implementation rather than rely on the default one.

  • Add Delete and Unpublish buttons to the content editor, Blocks editor for the Bag Part improvements - This week in Orchard (12/12/2025)

    12/12/2025 10:57:44 AM

    Orchard Core updatesFix pluralization for pagers with 0 or 1 itemAntoine Griffard changed the first parameter of many @T.Plural() methods. Ex: 1 item has to be changed to {0} item because, in languages like French, if there are 0 items, it will display the localization of 1 item instead of replacing the count with 0 or 1. Some of these are inside an if condition like this:

  • Data Catalog 3.0

    12/7/2025 7:28:59 PM

    Role of the Data Catalog in Data Mesh A Data Mesh is a decentralized architectural paradigm, while a Data Catalog is a tool or component used within it. A Data Mesh focuses on organizational principles like domain ownership and treating data as a product, whereas a Data Catalog provides a way to discover and inventory all the data assets, including these data products, across the decentralized domains. Essentially, data catalogs are foundational and necessary for a data mesh to function effectively by providing a central point of access and discovery for decentralized data

  • Power BI Incremental Refresh

    12/7/2025 7:08:20 PM

    Incremental refresh is a feature in Power BI that allows you to increase efficiency when refreshing data by only updating the most recent data instead of completely rewriting the entire dataset. This is especially useful for large datasets as it minimizes the amount of data handled during the refresh process, reducing load times and resource usage.

  • Azure CI and CD pipelines using Linked Template Specs

    12/7/2025 7:08:03 PM

    This document goes over how to write code to package up and promote a TEST environment Azure Data Factory to PROD environment Data Factory using Linked ARM Templates via a new Linked Template Specs process. Linked Templates are needed when your Data Factory size is over 4MB. This process goes over how to deploy large Data Factories.

  • General Delta Table processing

    12/7/2025 7:07:54 PM

    Python is an object-oriented programming language, and it supports the four main pillars of OOP: encapsulation, inheritance, polymorphism, and abstraction.

  • Orchard Core Shapes

    12/7/2025 7:07:42 PM

    Orchard Core doesn't render HTML directly, but instead will usually render something called a Shape, which is an object that represents the thing to render and has all the necessary data and metadata to render HTML. When rendering a Shape, Orchard Core will look for specific templates, passing the Shape to this template. Orchard Core can match with many templates for the same Shape. These potential templates are called Alternates.

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