Creative Web Specialist - An online portfolio and resource site of Warren Buckley

Hello all,
Well I haven’t blogged in since forever as I have been quite busy recently, but I suppose that's a good thing. So let’s have a quick catchup of what has been going on recently.

5th Birthday Umbraco Meetup

Well last month me and Adam Shallcross from The CogWorks help setup and organise the 5th Birthday party meetup event for the Open Source .NET CMS Umbraco which was a huge success.

Originally Gregory Roekens from Wunderman offered space at his offices to hold the event, but Adam, Gregory and myself soon realised that this event was very popular and space ran out in a day or two. So the event was moved from Wunderman’s offices to a boat on the Thames where we could hold twice the number of people.

In the runup to the event Gregory put Adam and me in touch with William Coleman from Microsoft UK who wanted to talk at the event and would able to help with some of the funding for it.
16th February came and we had a great day of talks, networking and drinks all for free, I won’t go into too much depth about the event as I have blogged about it on the umbraco.org blog

Hello this is a very quick post to let you know I have updated the Twitter package for Umbraco to version 1.2.1 after David Conlisk of Web Garden contacted me that he couldn’t get the existing 1.2.0 of the twitter package to work with V4 of Umbraco. So yesterday I created 1.2.1 of the Twitter package which now works with V4 of Umbraco. The XSLT has not been changed but the DLL for the XSLT Extension is now installed via the standard Umbraco Package Actions, instead of the previous method of running custom install code in a .NET usercontrol.

For more information on how to use the package, visit this previous blog post.

Download Twitter for Umbraco V1.2.1

Hello all.

Well it’s been a while sine I last posted on my blog and there has been a good reason for it, as I have been squirreling away and working on the NEW Creative Website Starter for Umbraco aka CWS2.

With CWS2 I have teamed up with ex-collegue and great designer Sam Grady of G-72 to give CWS a lovely lick of paint. If you have seen my previous CWS you can tell I was no designer :)

With this new version comes the following:

• A focus for this site to be used to help teach new users to the Umbraco CMS platform.
• .NET usercontrols written in C#
• XSLT & .NET code heavily commented to help understand what is going on.

What’s the plan for the future?

Now CWS2 is released my main focus is to write two documents, the first is an installation and how to configure CWS2 document and the second document is a technical explanation of how the site works and what the code is doing.

Download

You can download Creative Website Starter (CWS2) for Umbraco here on Codeplex.

Feedback

If you have any suggestions for CWS2 please put them here on the discussions on the CWS2 Codeplex project and if you come across any bugs for CWS2 please post them on the issue tracker on Codeplex.

Hello all,
Well this is will be a very brief post to let you know that I have released update 0.9.9 of my Creative Website Wizard Package for Umbraco.

This release is identical as 0.9.8 which is currently in the umbraco package repository, except this version will ONLY work for Umbraco V4.

In addition to this package file and previous versions are now stored on Codeplex. This has been done as I build a new version of the package for V4 (new design, amendments etc..) You will be able to download the source and modify it to your needs.

As before if you find any MAJOR problems please let me know.

Download Creative Website Wizard version 0.9.9

Thanks,
Warren

Hello all I thought I would do a screencast on the new ASP.NET masterpages integration in the upcoming version of Umbraco, a free .NET opensource CMS.

These videos come about when the great guys and girls from Xeed who I work for asked me to document Umbraco for internal documentation. Instead of doing the normal boring written documentation approach I thought I would try my hand at doing a screencast to cover the same information instead.

So Xeed has let me release these videos to the Umbraco community as well as they will be useful to people new to Umbraco V4. Xeed As based in Oslo, Norway where I work with along with core team member Kenneth Solberg has recently become a company who specialises in Umbraco solutions as we now have 4 umbraco certifications within the company which makes us an official Certified Solution Provider for Umbraco.

These four certified people are as follows:
Warren Buckley/Me - Level 1 Umbraco Developer
Ståle Engen - Level 1 Umbraco Developer
Kennth Solberg - Level 2 Umbraco Developer
Christian Melbye - Level 2 Umbraco Devleoper

So thanks again to the guys and girls over at Xeed to let me release these videos with you all and finally I have never done a screencast before, so please go easy on me with your feedback please ;)

Warren

Continue to watch the other videos on Masterpages in Umbraco v4