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  • Taking an Orchard site offline while you update it

    (c) Bertrand Le Roy 2012If your hosted environment does not give you a staging site and the means to swap it easily with the production environment like Azure Cloud Services do, or if you don’t have a staging database, or if you just need to take your site offline for the public while you perform data updates in the admin, you may be wondering what solutions you have, if any.

  • Dead simple stubbing for JavaScript

    I’m writing a lot of JavaScript these days, and for testing I mostly use QUnit. When I need to quickly stub a piece of the code that I’m testing, I like to use the following micro-library. What it does is enable you to replace a bunch of methods on an object with stub versions, in a easily reversible way.