The complete Conference program for Codegarden 2011

Alexander KjerulfThe Chief Happiness Officer

Opening talk from CodeGarden '11 - Alexander Kjerulf aka the Chief Happiness Officer, on the four rules for a happy CodeGarden '11.

Aaron PowellReadify

It’s a brave new world out there with Jupiter moving Umbraco from WebForms to MVC. But just what is MVC? It’s been around for a few years now but unless you’ve been doing non Umbraco work you probably haven’t had a chance to really get into it. This session will help you dive into the world of MVC, show you what you need to get started with building websites in MVC and ultimately building websites in Umbraco v5.

Paul SterlingUmbraco

Peter GregoryUmbraco

Come learn about the Umbraco Deli (marketplace). We'll cover what the deli is and isn't, how to get set up as a vendor, and the considerations you should take into account when creating your packages, extensions, and skins.

Shannon DeminickUmbraco

Extending Umbraco v5 back-office is a breeze with it's new Plugin architecture. Plugins allow you to easily create all of your favourite Umbraco extensions such as data types, trees, applications, editors and much, much more. All of the extensibility concepts in v5 have been engineered from the ground up and we'll cover everything you'll need to start extending the back-office to the nth degree.

Phil Winstanley

Umbraco 5 has some funky features which make it faster to serve pages and interact with, it also has scalability support for Azure, but sometimes, Azure isn’t right for you. Phil’s been working with Umbraco to see just how fast it can be. Come along to this session to see how you can build lightning fast web applications with Umbraco and ASP.NET.

This is the hands on labs track. Where members of the core team, HQ, MVPs and your peers will be on hand to help out. Also this is the place to be if you want to develop and build a package for the package competition.

Sebastiaan JanssenCultiv

The Razor view engine for ASP.NET is now built into Umbraco and provides a viable alternative to using XSLT macro's. In this session we'll be looking at the pros and cons of using XSLT versus using Razor: when should you use which? Also, you will learn that the rumors of XSLT's death are greatly exaggerated. Apart from the comparison you will be shown how you would convert some of your XSLT macro's into Razor macro's. As a developer you will always want to pick the right tool for the job and this session will give you plenty of ideas about when to choose which tool.

Darren FergusonFerguson Moriyama

Dimitri KourkoulisCouncil of the E.U.

Umbraco allows and encourages flexibility - so what is accepted best practice for building multiple language sites? In this Session Darren and Dimitrios will perform a hands on demonstration of two approaches and then open up the session to the audience for Q&A. Topics covered include the built in Umbraco translation workflows and the Umbraco relations API. Unfortunately due to a technical problem with the cameras, Dimitri Kourkoulis part of the session is missing from this video.

This is the hands on labs track. Where members of the core team, HQ, MVPs and your peers will be on hand to help out. Also this is the place to be if you want to develop and build a package for the package competition.

Robertjan Tuit

Come to see how Microsoft has embraced Umbraco on a large scale project. You will get an Architectural overview and see a lot of the code and demo’s on how Umbraco fits into our Business and publication process. Also includes: Custom routing, multi-language/region sites, filtered content cache, automated build & tests, multi data-center deployment and how we use the new and awesome Umbraco Courier 2.0.

Niels HartvigUmbraco

This session is cancelled - content is moved into other sessions on the v5 track! Now that Umbraco 5 is starting to be real, join me for a little session where we build a site using Umbraco v5 best practices. This is a great way to get an overview of how "JUPITER" differs from "JUNO" and how MVC differs from Webforms. The technical level will be low as the focus is on getting an introduction to the concepts that we'll spend the next three days diving into.

This is the hands on labs track. Where members of the core team, HQ, MVPs and your peers will be on hand to help out. Also this is the place to be if you want to develop and build a package for the package competition.

Alex NorcliffeUmbraco

One of the missions of Umbraco 5 was to give us a fresh architecture that would last just as long as the original Umbraco codebase. To do so has called for a lot of complexity and ambitious, testable code that works hard to enable a wide feature-set whilst keeping Umbraco just as friendly in everyday use. In this session, we'll take a look into some of the techniques we've used. This is a no-holds-barred talk about IoC, expression trees in our Linq provider, loosely coupled events, patterns and practises like Unit of Work, and the balance between purism and pragmatism when building a framework. If you're interested in how Umbraco 5 works under the hood from bottom to top, this is the session for you.

Per PlougUmbraco

Make staging and deployment for your Umbraco content, templates and other developement resources, easy, fast and as simple as right-clicking in the Umbraco backoffice. Per Ploug will guide you through Courier 2.0 and its ability to help you deploy anything between your Umbraco instances.

This is the hands on labs track. Where members of the core team, HQ, MVPs and your peers will be on hand to help out. Also this is the place to be if you want to develop and build a package for the package competition.

Shannon DeminickUmbraco

ClientDependency framework has been shipped with Umbraco since v4 and has since come a very long way. Recently it has been taken up by many developers for managing their own JavaScript and CSS dependencies for their web applications. This session will show you everything you need to know about how to implement ClientDependency in your own Umbraco web applications and any other web sites you might be building. It will highlight the benefits of the framework and show you all of its features including some brand new ones which you're sure to love.

Anders Burla JoahnsenTea Solutions

Søren Spelling LunduCommerce ApS

Jason ProtheroProWorks Corporation

In this session we bring you 3 different E-commerce solutions for Umbraco. Each speaker will tell you about their solution and why it may suit your next E-Commerce project in a quick 15min presentation each, followed up by a Q&A to wrap up the session. We have the following e-commerce solutions presenting in the showdown: Anders Burla Johansen from TeaCommerce for simple & low budget solutions Søren Spelling Lund from uCommerce for more complex & larger budget solutions Jason Prothero from Commerce for Umbraco as a free open source solution

This is the hands on labs track. Where members of the core team, HQ, MVPs and your peers will be on hand to help out. Also this is the place to be if you want to develop and build a package for the package competition.

Shannon DeminickUmbraco

Alex NorcliffeUmbraco

Aaron PowellReadify

Umbraco v5 has some incredible new features, both big and small. We'll run through our ever growing list of the new and awesome things that you can do in Jupiter. There should be something for everyone in this talk - we'll show you stuff you may have wished you could do in v4, and show off a few hidden gems that even surprised us!

Tim GeyssensUmbraco

In this session we'll look at a sample site where we've pushed Contour (umbraco HQ's official form builder) to the limit. Taking it further then contact forms and questionnaires and using it for polls, voting forms, registrations and much much more. By taking advantage of Contour's rich feature set and extension points you'll see that it's a piece of cake.

This is the hands on labs track. Where members of the core team, HQ, MVPs and your peers will be on hand to help out. Also this is the place to be if you want to develop and build a package for the package competition.

Aaron PowellReadify

Earlier this year the decision was made to move Umbraco from TFS source hosting to Mercurial. On the back of this we've seen an explosion in the community collaboration on Umbraco with the likes of Elijah and Gareth doing brilliant work to make Umbraco's Razor support what it is. But with developers located all over the world and community driven features how do you manage Open Source? How do tools such as Mercurial aid in this and what else is in play to ensure that Umbraco stays the quality product we know and love?

Adi MolinaFOX International Channels

"Spicing Up Umbraco" is a hands-on, developer-oriented session which encapsulates how to: create your own panel and content tree in Umbraco, develop customized and sophisticated web forms, and provide users with options to run automated tasks. This session will also feature a showcase of how the websites for FOX International Channels are managed with a "Spiced up" Umbraco installation.

This is the hands on labs track. Where members of the core team, HQ, MVPs and your peers will be on hand to help out. Also this is the place to be if you want to develop and build a package for the package competition.

Niels HartvigUmbraco

Per PlougUmbraco

Niels and Per in this session will show you how to move data from your v4 site over to a v5 site.

Douglas RobarPercipient Studios

A fast-paced grab bag of hidden gems, folklore, crazy ideas, and tips for having even more fun with umbraco!

This is the hands on labs track. Where members of the core team, HQ, MVPs and your peers will be on hand to help out. Also this is the place to be if you want to develop and build a package for the package competition.

Aaron PowellReadify

Alex NorcliffeUmbraco

The v5 data layer is designed for extensibility but where do you get started? Alex and Aaron will take you on a journey on how to produce a simple Hive provider and open a world of possibilities for integrating your own services into Umbraco's UI.

Elijah GloverThe Farm Digital

See how data from Umbraco can easily be taken offline and made mobile. This session will demonstrate what’s possible today using the Open Data Protocol, HTML5 storage and Silverlight.

This is the hands on labs track. Where members of the core team, HQ, MVPs and your peers will be on hand to help out. Also this is the place to be if you want to develop and build a package for the package competition.

Niels KühnelEksponent ApS

Niels will be talking about the new, exciting localisation framework in Umbraco 5. You'll be taken all the way from a simple "Hεllo Wørld" example to the features of the grammar, including proper handling of plural forms in exotic languages, separation of markup and text in translations, reusable templates and more. You'll also see how you can embed your own custom text provider as an alternative to the XML format, how to override pictures and texts or add new languages to the core and plugins, and how to localise view models without attributes.

Morten ChristensenCodehouse A/S

Martin Beeby

When Microsoft UK wanted to build a site for their largest technical conference, they had some key requirements. They needed it to be flexible, easy to edit and capable of coping with large traffic spikes. They also needed it yesterday. In this session Martin will discuss why they chose Umbraco on Azure, what Azure is and how the site was constructed in just over a month. This will be followed by Morten Christensen demonstrating how to deploy an Umbraco website onto the Azure platform, with a Q&A for Martin & Morten to end the session off.

This is the hands on labs track. Where members of the core team, HQ, MVPs and your peers will be on hand to help out. Also this is the place to be if you want to develop and build a package for the package competition.