Orchard Harvest 2014 – Day 2
On the second day of the Orchard Harvest, we had the chance to attend great sessions with awesome speakers.
Speaker : Damian Edwards
The Program Manager at Microsoft on the http://ASP.NET team presented the future of SPA applications.
The https://github.com/aspnet/MusicStore developed with ASP.NET vNext uses AngularJS, Jquery, Bootstrap, LESS, TypeScript, Grunt, Bower, …
From Boostrap to Orchard in 20 minutes
Speaker : Sébastien Ros
Sébastien demoed how to build a theme TheBootstrapMachine similar to the one used by weblogs.asp.net.
It just took him 45 minutes (Slides included 
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Speaker : Sipke Schoorstra
Sipke (Ideliverable) made a demo on an approval content workflow.
Many steps (mail, timer, jobs, …) composed this huge workflow.
Speakers : Travis Maddox, Adam Anderson - AMC Theatres
2 developers of https://www.amctheatres.com/ exposed the architecture of their solution and the steps to adopt Orchard as a powerful CMS.
This web sites has 30 millions page views / month.
Speakers : Eilon Lipton (Principal Development Manager), Scott Hunter (Principal Group Program Manager)
Scott talked about the vision of http://www.asp.net/vnext and the future of .NET.
Eilon made some impressive demos with Visual Studio 14 and the new asp.net vNext web application.
Speaker : Sébastien Ros
The next version should integrate new modules and enhancements like :
Audit trail, Deployment, Rest API, OData, Localization, Dynamic layout, …
The Orchard project site and the gallery will also have a redesign.
Panel - A Conversation with Core Contributors Followed by Q&A
Speakers : Bertrand Leroy, Piotr Szmyd, Sipke Schoorstra and Sébastien Ros.
The members of the steering committee answered questions about the future of the project.