A recording of my talk at CodeGarden 2021. Also available in written form.
I am a .NET back end developer with experience in C#, MVC, WebApi, Umbraco, T-SQL, JavaScript and Sass/CSS.
I’m based in Southampton working remotely for Bump. I get involved with the Umbraco and southampton.digital communities and can be found at various local tech events.
Blog posts & appearances
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It’s a dark and stormy night and you wake up with a start: is that the looming feeling of .NET 5 and Umbraco 9 on the horizon?! Upskilling yourself (and your team) can be a daunting prospect for developers, but I’ll guide you through which skills and processes need to change and which you can put on the back-burner. From development environments and .NET 5 concepts to configuration, deployment and hosting - it’s not as big a change as it might sound!
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Mapping our journey to accessibility: What we can learn about accessibility from maps
Accessibility is a fairly new concept in the world of the web. The web itself is only in its early 30's (not much older than myself!) and I think it's fair to say that accessibility wasn't a priority in Web 2.0. To catch up, it makes a lot of sense to stand on the shoulders of giants - what can we learn about accessibility from the real world that we can apply to the web?
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I moved my website to Umbraco Cloud, this is how I got on
One weekend. One website. One rebuild.
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How to set Windows Terminal as GitKraken's default terminal
GitKraken allows you to open the current repository in the terminal by hitting Alt + T but by default, this won't be the new Windows Terminal.
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Umbraco is "The Friendly CMS" and, as a community, we aim to be warm and welcoming, greeting everyone we encounter with a Friendly high-five. But how can we inject some of this Friendliness into our work and make the websites we craft as Friendly as possible?
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Marcin and Callum together with their guests celebrate umbraCoffee's 3rd birthday and talk about the new Community site, the Community Teams "retreat", Hacktoberfest and more.
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This week's guests are Honorary & New Umbraco Community Teams members - Poornima Nayar (@PoornimaNayar) and Joe Glombek (@JoeGlombek)
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Easily open uSync Sync-Pack files
uSync Sync-Pack files (with the .uSync extension) are simply ZIP files and can be viewed in any ZIP viewer, including the one built into Windows.
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Integrate, don't imitate - when an API beats rolling your own
It wasn’t long ago that every agency and freelancer had their own custom CMS they’d use for client projects. We decided that was a bad idea. But we’ll often be seen writing custom code within that standardised CMS. Are we making the same mistakes again?
