How we repositioned Lombiq.com for the people who decide
Our website spoke to developers, but the people who decide on critical platforms usually represent different roles. Here’s how we rewrote Lombiq.com: message first, and the design second.
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The European Accessibility Act came into effect today. Should you care?
With the European Accessibility Act coming effect into today (June 28th, 2025), we've reached an important milestone in (web) accessibility. As the official announcement states: "The Act mandates that a range of products and services such as consumer electronics (TVs, smartphones, computers, gaming …
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Open-source Lombiq projects now published on NuGet
We have more than 160 open-source repositories under our GitHub organization, out of which more than 140 are somehow related to Orchard (including Orchard Core and 1.x). Up until now, if you wanted to utilize our projects in your own ones, you could only reference them as Git submodules or copy …
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Lombiq is 8 years old!
Today is the 8th anniversary of founding Lombiq! 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. Is this your first time here? We …
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Introducing our HipChat to Microsoft Teams Migration Utility
If you're a user of Atlassian's chat service, HipChat, just like us, then you've surely heard that it'll be retired in February 2019. While Atlassian recommends and officially supports migrating to Slack what if you wanted to try Microsoft Teams instead? While there is no official support from …
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Git-hg Mirror is now open source!
The code behind our two-way Git-Mercurial sync service Git-hg Mirror is now open source! We're quite an open source company with dozens of projects on GitHub but up until now the code of Git-hg Mirror was private. Why? Simply because we didn't think it's worth open sourcing (being a very specific …
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Access our open source projects on Bitbucket and GitHub!
Good news everyone! We're happy to announce that all our open source projects are now available not only in Mercurial, but in Git too on GitHub! We've moved 67 projects from CodePlex to Bitbucket, so you can clone, fork, raise issues and comment on them (along with all those that were already on …
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Lombiq Fields Orchard module released with some useful content fields
Fields in Orchard are simply to use ways of building your own content: you can enrich content items to store a variety of data in the available fields. With our Lombiq Fields module we now add two new ones: Media Library Upload Field and the Money Field. So what are these two fields doing exactly? …
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Making simple Orchard development tasks simple with Abstractions
Orchard, the beloved content management framework we built Lombiq on admittedly has a steep learning curve. Well, with great investment into learning Orchard comes great power or something, but still, how can we make some simple, everyday development tasks in Orchard easier? Can we also give …
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We've broken the Internet with downloadable content items
Our new Download as... Orchard module brings the ability to download content items as files: currently HTML or PDF. This means you can give automatic download links for your contents on your Orchard sites (something that's our profession to develop). The module even cares about flattening …