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
Regular readers may remember back in 2022 I moved my personal project site TV Whirl first from 7 to 9, then shortly follwed on to Umbraco 10 on .net 6.0, which was then the Long Term Support release of the CMS (though I technically didn’t stick truly to the LTS releases as I never upgraded
The Umbraco Sustainability Team ran a short webinar this afternoon to give out lots of ideas and tips on various ways to improve the sustainability of your Umbraco website solutions. Many of the various aspects have been covered before in individual different talks, but it was good to have them all brought together into a
After many months of teasing us with release candidates, the final latest release of Microsoft’s .net 8 framework came out mid-November, marking the latest long-term-support release of .net core (for all we’re not supposed to include the ‘core’ moniker any more). Following the new roadmap plan of aligning their own LTS releases to that of
I already put a few brief notes on ‘the socials’ (to use that awful hackneyed term) earlier today, but now that I’ve had a bit more time to properly formalise my thoughts I thought I’d put together a slightly longer blog post on this. I’ve actually been going to developer meetups for over a decade,
You generally hear most people talking about using app services or serverless architecture to host websites these days as they’re seen as the ‘cooler’ in thing, with far fewer people still talking about more traditional fullscale servers. Always one for bucking trends though, I still retain much love for the good old traditional server even
Disclaimer: This blog post contains pre-release functionality, all subject to change before final release, and some of my interpretations of what is there may be wrong. Background For those who’ve been around in development a few years, people may remember ‘headless’ (effectively separating the frontend application from the backend data) being a huge buzzphrase a
