Codegarden Umbraco

Annual gathering of the global Umbraco community in Odense, Denmark. More than 30 high-quality sessions from community experts and the Core team, announcements from Umbraco HQ, in-depth all-day workshops, and the opportunity to influence the future of Umbraco.

Video: Pushing Umbraco to the limits 54:34

Pushing Umbraco to the limits

New Heroes is an online softskill learning platform which a large dev team has been working on fulltime for over 9 months.It uses pretty much every api in the core and in this session we'll explain what techniques we've used to build this platform.
Video: Packages and your data on Umbraco as a service 56:16

Packages and your data on Umbraco as a service

As Umbraco as a Service becomes more and more popular, there's also a rising expectation for your packages and code to be fully compatible with the service and with deployments between environments. The task of making your code compatible with Umbraco as a Service can be anything from just a few minor adjustments, to implementing custom resolvers and providers to support data transfer and transformations. In this session we will give you best practice tips for developing on Umbraco as a Service and talk through some of the common development errors and ways to avoid or resolve them, as well as looking at an actual implementation of a data resolver and a matching provider for custom data stores.
Video: Building springsummer.dk 44:49

Building springsummer.dk

As an agency focused on crafting unique digital experiences, Spring/Summer built their own website on Umbraco as a service. Hear how an agency built an amazing, award winning website with a very strong design focus using nothing but their everyday OSX-based applications and UaaS.
Video: Why we picked Umbraco 53:47

Why we picked Umbraco

Hear from 3 very different Umbraco clients why they went with Umbraco, what they love about it, and they see its unique selling points.Its a rare glimpse into what your customers think are great about Umbraco, why they picked over compering products and also how they think Umbraco could improve. Represented on the Panel is:Christian Hoffmann, Lambretta Watches running a e-commerce website on top of Umbraco and UcommerceVidar Aune Westrum from Komplett Group, managing marketing and sales content as part of the massive Komplett website operationsAfredo Pulvirent, managing websites at the Council of the European Union, whom recently decided to switch to Umbraco. 
Video: Guerrilla marketing suite 44:49

Guerrilla marketing suite

Adam from Novicell will share tricks for using off-the-shelf services to build an alternative marketing suite. The million-dollar marketing suites out there may be awesome. However, do we need all that jazz? Can Umbraco and a handful of SaaS subscriptions do the same? Judge for yourself as Adam demos his alternatives. Track segments across sites and emailsEasy lead management and CRM in minutesConnect the basic profiling dots between servicesProvide personalized content off visitor behavior
Video: Je suis Core 01:06:44

Je suis Core

Stephan and Shannon will take you on a Journey through the Umbraco Core codebase. This session will be presented feature by feature and we’ll try to bring to light many core APIs, concepts and wonders that you may not be fully aware of.
Video: Meet the new Asp.net core 41:02

Meet the new Asp.net core

ASP.NET Core had a very troubled and confusing genesis, changing names and merging with other projects in the course of the last 6 months.In this talk we are going to clear up all the confusion and show what ASP.NET Core brings to the table for web developers.Understand what ASP.NET Core is and how to install itUnderstand the new flow of ASP.NET Core sitesLearn what the default modules doHow to develop outside of Visual Studio
Video: Umbraco as a Service and Visual Studio 55:47

Umbraco as a Service and Visual Studio

So you created a new Umbraco as a Service Project, but all you got was a url to clone a git repository. But how do you get up and running when Visual Studio is your preferred tool for developing Umbraco based solutions?In this session we will look at what you get after clicking "Create Project" in the Umbraco as a Service Portal, and how you get from a newly created project to a solution in Visual Studio.We will also talk about Developer workflows around Umbraco as a Service Projects, and take a look at what the future has in store for Visual Studio + Umbraco as a Service and Application Lifecycle Management (ALM).
Video: Umbraco + Firebase 38:38

Umbraco + Firebase

Creating dynamic apps in the cloud with Firebase & UaaSFirebase is Google’s full stack NoSQL cloud platform that allows developers to build extraordinary realtime apps. Combine that with the power of UaaS, you’ve got a blissful duo: an app in the cloud supported by a database in the cloud!In this session, Badi will take you on a wild ride of speed-coding with Firebase’s JavaScript APIs to build a real-world application in UaaS. We will explore the key features of Firebase including realtime data synchronization, user authentication and session management and how this plays nicely with UaaS to help you create dynamic apps in the cloud that are ready to use and ready to scale—all in a few simple steps. You will also learn how you can easily authenticate users of your app on social platforms like Facebook and Twitter!
Video: Why is wysiwyg so hard? 33:52

Why is wysiwyg so hard?

Joakim will talk about the hows and why of TinyMCE as well as why wysiwyg is so complicated to get just right. And he should know, as he’s been one of the driving forces behind the open source rich text editor of TinyMCE for the past 10 years.
Video: Tour de backoffice 01:00:17

Tour de backoffice

Umbraco 7.4 backoffice have tons of extension points for frontend developers who want to enhance the editor experience or built entirely custom ones inside Umbraco. 
Video: Panel: Extreme property editors 54:17

Panel: Extreme property editors

Nested Content, Archetype and Grid, three different editors trying to solve the same problem: handling dynamic collections of data inside a single page. Ever wondered when to use what? Wonder no more as each editor is compared and their pros and cons are exposed.