Hello all well I have finally found some time to write up my remaining days from my umbraco codegarden08 trip.
Day 4
Day 4 was the second day we used at the retreat house to do some more openspace meetings. The main topics of interest to me was how we could improve documentation for Umbraco and What can be done to improve the umbraco project.
After all the openspace meetings for the day had finished it was tidy up and the house and get ready to leave. Whilst we was all waiting for the repair guys to come out and take a look at the rental van that had been making some funny noises the day before, we had another kick about.
The "Hohler" was yet again on top form and taking on anyone that would stand his way!
Credit to Douglas Robar for the photo
Some "friendly" football between me and Niels - bloody cheater!
Credit to Douglas Robar for the photo
With football finished and all us exhausted it was a perfect time to BOMB into the pool, to cool off!
Per going for the spectacular BOMB !
Credit to Douglas Robar for the photo
With all the work and fun had it was time for us to all pile into the vans and head back to Copenhagen ready for the main event on Tuesday!
Hello all,
I have yet to finish my blog posts from my visit to codegarden08 which will come later in the week. However I wanted to tell you all for the second year running I have achieved an Umbraco MVP (Most Valued Person) award. It's great to receive it again and makes me feel valued within the umbraco community and its a real boost for my motivation to keep contributing to the CMS I love.
Morning all I have just woken up to a boiling hot room checked the window and its real sunny outside, yippee got my shorts, T-shirt sunglasses and my camera ready for a "tourist" day around Copenhagen, i'll be back at the end of the day to fill you in.
OK so we travelled more into the center of Copenhagen and done a canal tour around the sights, which included the "largest indoor golf center" and the little mermaid. So after we done THE TOURIST thing we had some lunch and then went to pick up Paul Sterling from Motus Connect from the airport and made our way to the retreat.
Credit to Douglas Robar for the photo
So after some informal introductions outside in the glorious sun, we chilled out and discussed our background and experiences with umbraco and had some dinner at a local steak restaurant, we came back and chilled, but hey that was the first informal day over so we could get to know one another.
Hello all well this is my first of daily blogs whilst I am away in Copenhagen for a week for the Umbraco Codegaren08 conference.
I have started writing this post from home this morning whilst I am finishing up packing I've checked that I have got all my cables for my laptop and checked my e-mail for my boarding pass, so now I am good to go!
OK I landed in Copenhagen and met the gang at the Metro station dropped off my stuff at the hotel (which I have 4 beds to choose to sleep from tonight - including a top bunk) and was discussing some different things with umbraco and stuff in general, but the coolest thing to me was that Niels made a change to the latest source that allows me to improve the performance of my XSLT macros to external services such as twitter etc in a matter of minutes !! Niels has improved the XSLT extension umbraco.library for GetXMLDocumentByURL which supports caching by providing a value in seconds for the cache time.
Hello all,
I thought I would share with you all that I am officially now an “Umbraco certified level 1 developer” and it feels good to have something to show for all the hard work I have invested into Umbraco.
Warren Buckley
is a Creative Web Specialist based in
Leigh on Sea, Essex
,
UK.