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3.0.5 is almost ready to release, so I wanted to show-off some of the improvements we've made this time. Niels has already mentioned that property descriptions have been added to the edit view, but we have some other improvements coming as well.

Roll Back dialog updated.

The old dialog was a bit crammed and it was hard to actually spot the differences between 2 versions. So we've simplified it a bit, and added DIFF capabilities, so it's easier to see what has changed between 2 versions, green text will be added, red text will be removed (compared to the current active version):

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Import package dialog

The import dialog has been updated to reflect that the repository has matured a lot the last 12 months - thanks to the great work by the package repo group.

Copy Document type

We've added a dialog for copying document types. This is something that the community has been wishing for, for some time, and we're really excited to finally getting this feature added.

Plus lots of other improvements

This was just 3 of the new things in 3.0.5. We've done plenty of other things, which you see in detail in the change-log on codeplex. We are really looking forward to this release, and hope you do too.

Yesterday Jesper Ordrup (of forum and http://jesper.com fame) came by the office to discuss his session on CodeGarden. Luckily I had the video camera with me and even more lucky he was willing to do a ten minute interview.

His session will be about having a toolbar of multiple and very re-usable macros for mashing up forums, intranets, etc. very fast. Think of it as AutoForms on steroids. He literally showed me some fantastic ways of building umbraco solutions in a very short time - yet completely open for being heavily customized later on (for advanced security/permissions etc). Think of it as mashing up a prototype in an hour, but it isn't a prototype - it's a fully working intranet, but in the exact way you want.

The video doesn't really show the whole potential as Jesper wasn't really sure how much he was allowed to show (it was a customer website - hence the black squares covering logos some times), but I can tell you that his one hour session alone will be worth the EUR250 CodeGarden fee.

The keynote is over, and the break-out sessions have started here in Las Vegas. As soon as I get the photos from my iPhone onto my Laptop I'll get those uploaded to flickr to keep all of you up to date.

From umbraco's perspective the most interesting thing so far has been the Beta 1 of IE8, I'm really impressed by it, fantastic debugging tools, much better performance and I'm happy to report that Umbraco is running smoothly on it. You should try it out, it's at: www.microsoft.com/ie/ie8

And as soon as the keynote is up on visitmix.com go see it - if you ever doubted that microsoft could pull of something really great with silverlight, you should absolutely see it! (the demos begin after about 30 minutes I think.

That's all for now, I'll check back in regularly during the week. 

We're getting reports of random performance hiccups in umbraco v3. If you experience the same, we'd like to hear from you so we can solve this ASAP.

The typical way to identify this issue is that your site in general are running very fast, but sometimes it does respond at all for a (very) short time and after that it runs fast again. Also, recycling the application pool will also make the site instantly run fast again.

We're only interested to hear about this particular issue (other issues are handled via the pro subscriptions), so please make sure. We'll also ask of access to your server via remote desktop, so if this is not possible, there's no reason to get in touch.

You can contact us via our contact page.

We'll keep everyone updated via this blog about the progress and we're hoping for a hotfix as early as next week.

I hope that you appreciate our open approach in solving this issue. All software got bugs, but critical issues like this needs fast solving which is why we're using our fantastic community to get as detailed reports as possible, thus ensuring faster fixes.

I promise that this will be the last post about how fast tickets are selling (at least this week ;-)), but 30% of the tickets are sold now, so you better not wait if you want to join the event of the year.

And what an event - we've started doing video interviews with the speakers and they're even more excited than we and I think the stuff some of them are going to show will redefine "cool". I'm blown away when I see and hear how people are using umbraco in so many ways. So whether you'd like to experience the skills of XSLT ninjas or see how to implement a complete intranet with front-end editing in less than an hour - join today.

Updates to the speakers pages, program and video interviews will start appearing next week.

I'm pretty confident that all seats are sold by the end of this month. Wow and thanks!