January 17, 2007
It can be difficult to keep updated on Umbraco. So many things
are happening.
Because of this situation, I have written some internal
newsletters at work about Umbraco for project managers and
developers to keep my colleges updated on Umbraco. And why not share
this info with the Umbraco community.
I will try to summarize what I have noticed on the Umbraco scene the last couple of months. Most of the text is coming from the newsletters at work.
Hope you will enjoy it.
Change of license, CPL instead of GPL.
In short, as developer you can now sell Umbraco packages/modules
to your costumers and the rest of the world without concerns about
breaking the more restricted GPL
license and give back your source code to Umbraco.
Websites build with Umbraco
www.hasselblad.com
www.antonveneta.it (bank in Italy)
As usual you can find Umbraco powered sites at the Umbraco
website.
Umbraco solution providers
More and more agencies around the world are embracing
Umbraco.
UK is one of the countries, where Umbraco have gotten more addicts
the last half-year. RiverInteractive where the Umbraco blogger Ismail is
working, are one of them.
In my own country it is no secret that Ebita and Netmedia are
focused on being big umbraco provides in Denmark.
The Netherlands Clockwork have chosen Umbraco for small and
medium solutions.
The largest online agency in Australia WDG is a strong
believer in Umbraco.
This show how easy it is to get started with Umbraco. Most of
the agencies using Umbraco have not been visited by Niels or
attended at Codegarden 2006.
Umbraco documentation
When a new developer is starting with Umbraco one of the first
comments is: "Umbraco lacks on documentation, I can't find
anything!"
But that is not totally true. But it can take some time to figure
out how to find packages, documentation, snippets etc.
Personally I use Google. Jesper has actually created a Google Co-op search, where you can search 26 sites for Umbraco related content.
The Umbraco team is aware of the problem with documentation
spread out.
Hopefully in 2007 will the Umbraco community get a brand new
Umbraco site with all of the documentation, snippets etc one click
away.
It will properly be some sort of a Wiki for the documentation
part.
For more info see the transcript for the Umbraco developer chat in November 2006
A devoted Sitecore blogger about Umbraco
Time for something different: Umbraco
CMS
It was actually the most viewed post in 2006 on Alex's
blog because it got linked from Umbraco.org
Umbraco wins two BNP challenger awards.
BNP have done a really big CMS benchmark analysis for 2006/2007. They have
done this since 2000.
For the first time they are giving awards. Umbraco got two
challenger awards this year. One for integration and one for
community.
BNP was having a best practice seminar and Niels did a
presentation, watch it on Youtube.
24 hour race, mapmee
Last year Per, Jesper and Jhonny wanted to see what they
could do with Umbraco in 24 hours without any sleep.
It turned out to be mapmee, an Umbraco flash yahoo map mix
up.
I was one the viewers getting entertained by the 11 videos posted
on Youtube while the 24 hours race went by.
More on the 24 hour race on Per's blog
CMS marketplaces - the missing link
There was an article on the Danish Computerworld about the
missing marketplaces in content management systems.
Every agency was selling their own homemade (workmade) modules.
Which in the end do not benefit the CMS customers.
Umbraco got mentioned for the new package repository in the
upcoming Umbraco version 3, which will make it easy to buy/try/get
modules for Umbraco.
Umbraco codegarden 2007
Next time it will be UK, looking forward to this
Umbraco hosting
In Denmark fab-it and netmedia offer umbraco hosting on dedicated
umbraco servers. But why not just use the first and best hosting
company you can find? Umbraco are just asp.net and MS SQL - most
hosting companies in Denmark are not very clever on asp.net and ms
sql hosting and do not know what you are talking about when it
comes to asp.net hosting, tweaking and backup/restore of ms
sql.
I have got umbraco running on different hosting companies in
Denmark, but most of the time I need to be in touch with the
hosting company allot before umbraco is up and running.
With hosting companies that are used to deliver umbraco hosting,
you know the company can handle an umbraco solution.
I use Buydomains for small sites. The servers are
located in US it cost around 7 dollars / 6 euros for a month. Very
cheap.
Umbraco Certifications and training
Umbraco is introducing certifications and
training.
Learn from the makers of Umbraco. Meet fellow
Umbraco developers and have a good time.
Christian Palm on www.umbraco.org
The biggest news, I got my name on the people page.
Want more: What's up! In the future?
I could go on and on, but please give me some feedback with a
comment whether you like/dislike this kind of "What's
Up!"