Join me for a ride down memory lane to understand where Umbraco
came from and why and where we're heading today. A good combo of
awful looking screenshots of the early Umbraco UI, the horrible
first db schemas and all the way to some exclusive things to be
unvealed at this wonderful day.
Niels Hartvig is the founder of Umbraco project and have been
working on it since 2003. Since 2008 he's been in charge of Umbraco
HQ, the corporate entity behind the project proudly employing five
people working on evangelizing the project, enhancing the core all
while trying to build add-ons to finance it all.
Despite the core team would love to see him stop making weird
commits, he's still able to scare the core team to death when he
opens Visual Studio (even though he claims he has become a better
coder throughout the years).
The Razor view engine for ASP.NET is now built into Umbraco and
provides the first viable alternative to XSLT macro's. It's safe to
say that Razor is the future of macro development in Umbraco. No
more need to learn XSLT: your average .net developer can just use
C# (or VB, if they must) and get intellisense in Visual Studio. No
more need to do explicit compiles of your source code, no more
having to use XSLT "tricks" that are hard to find: just look up how
you would do it in .net and write it. In this talk you'll be shown
tips & tricks and an overview of the helpers that are built
into Umbraco. If you care about being very productive with Umbraco,
you will not want to miss this.
Sebastiaan Janssen has been using content management systems for
over a decade, but never with as much pleasure as with Umbraco now.
He loves the web and does freelance work for his company Cultiv Web
Development and works for WVD Media. He became an Umbraco
enthousiast 2 years ago after working with it for a few evenings
and comparing it to the systems he was used to working with. A few
months later, a job opportunity came about where he would be able
to work with only Umbraco. He jumped at the oppertunity and has
been an Umbracoholic ever since.
Umbraco 5 is going to become the Umbraco you know and love on
the outside, with a leaner body on the inside. In this reasonably
techie talk I'll go through some of the architecture choices, and
I'm sure at one or two points there'll be Visual Studio and a
browser up on screen to show everyone progress so far. It's early
days so we'll be looking at the concepts in progress, but Umbraco 5
will be pluggable to the nth degree, so this talk will give a bit
of insight into where things are headed and how we're going to get
there. For anyone interested in how we maintain a global team I'll
also give a quick insight into how we organise the project and
explain about some of the upcoming milestones for the rest of
2010.
Alex Norcliffe (aka BoxBinary) has either been designing or
implementing WCM systems since 2000, in Classic ASP at first and
then .NET from the heady days of 1.0 in 2002. He joined the Umbraco
Core two years ago in 2008 whilst his development team at Condé
Nast were busy putting Wired onto Umbraco. A few years down the
line he's now taken the reigns as Lead Architect for v5, working as
part of the Umbraco HQ and Core teams. Alex brings experience from
running a wide gamut of sites - from Vogue.com et al totalling
millions of pageviews per day, to consultancy for large sites by
Xeed and Wunderman, to his own blog BoxBinary.com which gets at
least seven hits per week.
UMedial, the media library extension for Umbraco. How to handle
a large amount of media items without leaving the Content-section.
You'll see a demonstration of the Umedial backend and frontend, the
power of Lucene (Examine) and several custom made datatypes.
Martijn Beumers is founder and Managing Director of Axendo and
started his first web design company back in 2000. Since then he
worked with several WCM systems and developed his own using Classic
ASP. He discovered Umbraco mid 2008 and became a certified
developer three months later. At the same time Axendo became the
first Certified Partner of Umbraco in the Netherlands.
Building a webshop for Umbraco is easier than you would think.
This session will show you that within a few minutes of your time
and the SSWS package, you can have a fully functional
multi-language, multi-currency webshop running.
After launching the basic site in minutes we'll show you how
easy it is to use packages like uComponents to extend the
functionality and a demonstration how to import your current
product catalog into the shop using the CMSImport package.
We'll know how you all like free stuff, so there will be the
chance to win a free license + extended support for 1 year!
In this session we'll take a look at the datatype improvements
introduced in v 4.6 of Umbraco.
By taking advantage of the data editor settings creating
configurable datatypes is a breeze.
Combine that with the usercontrol wrapper and xml data storage
and you'll be able to create complex and versatile custom datatypes
in minutes.
As part of the Umbraco HQ Tim, among other things, drives the
development of Umbraco Contour and makes sure that umbraco.tv keeps
the Umbraco community entertained and educated on the latest
umbraco topics. You might have already bumbed into him since he
runs the official umbraco trainings in Belgium.
Tea Commerce is a strong lightweight e-commerce system for
Umbraco - which provides the necessary tools to easily implement an
e-commerce solution. The main focus of Tea Commerce lies on the
front-end developer. Everything can be done with HTML, CSS,
JavaScript and XSLT/Razor, while it's still possible to extend your
e-commerce through .NET.
This session will show you what Tea Commerce is all about, what
it looks like and how easy it is getting started with an e-commerce
solution built with Umbraco and Tea Commerce. Using the Tea
Commerce starter kit as a foundation, Anders will show how Tea
Commerce integrates with Umbraco, how to extend the webshop with
new functionality and a walkthrough of the powerful JavaScript
API.
Throughout his career, Anders has worked with various content
management systems. He has chosen to specialize in Umbraco because
of its strong foundation, flexibility and extensibility - all of
which made Tea Commerce possible. Anders has surfed the Umbraco
wave since version 3.0.3 and has never looked back. With his
experience in configuring and developing e-commerce solutions he
knows what is required of a good e-commerce system. This expertise
and his passion for Umbraco created the idea for Tea Commerce.