Umbraco 8 has been out a year now and it's really shaping up to be a great version. I think Umbraco can now rightly shout about it being a great release. I've been having the following conversation with several people and I thought it would be easier...
This year would have been our 11th proud year as an Umbraco Gold Partner. Regular visitors may notice that on the site there is no mention of our Gold Partner status. That is because in January 2020 when the renewal came around we took stock of our s...
Using Umbraco's grid is one of the best content experiences an editor can have, especially when using the excellent Doc Type Grid Editor by Umco (aka Matt Brailsford and Lee Kelleher). Here at Offroadcode it's our go-to editor of choice for grid cont...
A Genie developer is one that will only do exactly as they are told. There is no critical thinking (or if there is its kept internal and never shared with the client) or clarification of the request or its knock on consequences. What you ask for is w...
Every now and then you hear about a nugget of wisdom which rings true to a part of your life. The latest I've found is the title of this post and comes from the SEAL team who went in and "got" Mr Bin Laden. When we get a programming problem, as devel...
In the third of what seems to be growing into a series of posts about Umbraco V8 I delve a little deeper into the idea of "when" V8 should be ready and released. You can read the first two posts here: Getting Umbraco V8 up and running - how to get t...
Every year Umbraco CMS hosts their yearly Conference in Denmark and for the 7th (maybe 8th?) year in a row the "award winning" Offroadcode Team attended. The hot topic this year was the forth coming Version 8 (aka V8) which would be released...erm......
So at the wonderful Umbraco conference that is "Code Garden" a few weeks back Umbraco released a very early Alpha release of the next version of Umbraco, aka V8. I've been doing some work on trying to get AngularJS (the framework used for running the...
Here at Offroadcode we spend a lot of time thinking about the experience of our clients' editors in the Umbraco back office. It's a philosophy that guides how we design the back office UI for humans with property editors and docTypes. It also has had...