Blog posts from me are like London Buses. You wait ages for one, then three come along at once but all get stuck in traffic behind a delivery driver. Yes, it doesn’t seem very long since I was last down in London for Umbraco UK Festival 2023, and yet in reality 12 months have already
About a year ago now, I did a talk and blog post comparing various mini PCs for running Umbraco, to try and encourage people to look a bit wider than just the common Raspberry Pi default, as repurposing old machines is much better for sustainability. Back then Umbraco was still on version 12, and running
When it comes to sustainability, it’s all well and good building an amazing website where the templates are well optimised, minimising the download size of images, css and javascript that are baked in. But if a content editor then subsequently adds in actual content filled with huge and poorly optimised images, the good work can
As part of something I’m working on for a future blog post/technical demo, today I had the need to implement some custom Property Value Converters in Umbraco 13 to allow me to modify the HTML from them in one place. To do so I had to implement converters for both the Umbraco Markdown editor and
If you’ve been in any way involved in working with Umbraco in recent years you’ll have heard about the major overhaul to the back office that was coming in Umbraco 14, finally released at the very end of May. With a total rebuild from the ground up using all new web component technologies rather than
Having only just narrowly missed it in 2020 due to it being the year every event got cancelled, I’ve been keen to get to every Camp Digital held in Manchester since events were able to reopen in 2022. So 2024 marked the third time I’ve been able to get along to CD. I always say
I hadn’t intended there to be another sustainability improvement blog post so soon after the last one, but I thought I’d put this quick one up just as a little story for everyone on how even when you think you’ve covered every possible angle, it’s always worth looking at projects again in a different way
Having completed all of the underlying code for the backend of the site, first upgrading Umbraco and moving the database, before moving on to making the site’s custom functionality cross-platform compatible at the server side, attention moved now to the frontend of the site. When it comes to the site rendering, the differences between Umbraco
It’s time for the second part of the series taking a look at the recent upgrade of my TV Whirl site from Umbraco 10 to 13, as well as moving it all from Windows to Linux. In the first part I focused on getting the core database and Umbraco upgrade itself out of the way,
March 2024 saw the return of Umbraco Spark to Bristol for a fourth iteration, and the third one in total I’ve now been able to attend even if I wasn’t able to blog about it last year. By now you’d think I’d have the routine for this down to a fine art, however this year
