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uProfile March 2024 - Amalie Wowern

Amalie expresses her love for Umbraco, its supportive community, and her involvement in hosting meetups and hackathons. She shares her plans, tips for joining the community, and personal interests.

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Community

How to handle Umbraco Commerce Notification Events

Umbraco Commerce offers various notifications for events like order creation, email sending, and more. Notification handlers are used to extend and customize these events, making it easy to implement and expand upon Commerce notifications.

The Extreme Sport of Solo-Conferencing

Lotte Pitcher reflects on her experiences at various conferences, emphasizing the impact of attending alone and offering suggestions for both solo attendees and conference organizers to improve the experience. She advocates for initiatives such as "green light" stickers for willingness to converse, designated conversation spaces, sociable activities, and the importance of making introductions and leaving space for others to join conversations. Lotte encourages solo attendees to initiate conversations, do research, and be open to changing plans, while also highlighting the role of friends or colleagues in helping solo attendees connect with others.

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Community Corner - Huw Reddick

Huw Reddick, an Umbraco MVP, shares his journey into the Umbraco community, his work history, open-source collaboration, Umbraco projects, learning, and motivation. He emphasizes the importance of community and knowledge sharing.

Quick n' dirty blog with Astro and Umbraco

Kenn Jacobsen discusses building an Astro blog powered by Umbraco with minimal effort. He provides steps for setting up the blog template, integrating Umbraco as the headless CMS, and connecting Astro with Umbraco. He also suggests improvements for the setup.

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Onwards to Umbraco 13 and Linux – Part 3

Terence Burridge discusses the backend and frontend improvements made to a website, focusing on sustainability and performance. He details the optimization of image and video content, frontend build, and infrastructure, resulting in reduced data transfer, improved PageSpeed Insights scores, and energy usage reduction.

Simple Content Synchronization with Umbraco

Johan Reitsma discusses developing a basic logic for content importation into an Umbraco CMS due to budget constraints, providing C# code and examples for implementing content synchronization from different sources to Umbraco.

Converting Backoffice Language files using ChatGPT

Richard Soeteman discusses converting XML language files to TypeScript using ChatGPT. He shows the old XML format, the new TypeScript format, and how ChatGPT can automate the conversion process.

Watch & Listen

WEBINAR: Why Sustainability Needs To Be On Your Web Tech Agenda

A webinar featuring sustainability experts and Umbraco's CMS Product Owner, Lasse Fredslund, addresses the crucial link between digital solutions and environmental responsibility. It emphasizes the imperative for the tech industry to prioritize sustainability in its innovations.

Events

UmbraCollab - Bellissima edition: Gmaps property editor part 2

2024-03-27 from 13:30 to 14:30 - Online on other

UmbraCymru - Virtual Umbraco Meetup, March 2024

2024-03-27 from 18:30 to 20:30 - Online event

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Umbraco Kent Meetup - Getting Personal with Bellissima (v14)

2024-03-28 from 19:00 to 21:00 - Dragon Coworking (Rochester), 7-8 New Road Avenue, Rochester, GB

Umbraco Meetup (København)

2024-04-03 from 16:30 to 19:30 - Nyropsgade 41A, 6 sal, Nyropsgade 41A, København, DK

Virtual event : Dan Lister : Advancing the Umbraco Cloud

2024-04-04 from 19:00 to 21:00 - Online event

Deadlines

UMBRAAD Call For Speakers

31 Mar 2024 - 11:59 PM

Packages

Dyfort.Umbraco.IndexNow

This plugin enables automated submission to multiple search engines

Dyfort.Umbraco.BingIndexing

This plugin enables automated submission to the Bing search engine

Reflections.Umbraco13.StarterKit

Reflections StarterKit for Umbraco 13

Social

Applications for the new Umbraco Cloud Community Team are now open

Umbraco Deploy now supports v7 allowing easier migration to newer Umbraco versions

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