Codegarden 09 Day 2

A summary of the second day at the retreat house:

This day had been affected by talks about the main themes 'the community' and 'umbraco with MVC?'. We had some great talks about these two themes discussing forth and back all the possibilities we can see.

Afterwards we had BBQ and again I got the clown of the retreat podcast. Just laughing about it and taking it as it seems to be: make a joke on one who don't care.

Also had a nice evening talking to many of the guys here.

Codegarden 09 Day 1

• Journey
• BonBonLand
• Retreathouse
• Demo of the CG09 surprise
• Talks about MVC

After a short night (daughter gets tooth) and a flight full of giggling teens I meet most of the other guys joining the Retreat before Codegarden 09. They are all very friendly guys you can meet at Codegarden 09 in Copenhagen.

After loading the buses we drove to BonBonLand drove the Rollercoasters (me only one) and had a few hours of fun before driving to the retreat house. It is exactly the same house as last year. While we waited for the arrival of the last three guys we played the first round of the retreat football game (my team loosed this game, shame on us) and started the first talks and demos.

The most important things on this day were the friendly guys I met, the socializing talks with them and the great demo of the Codegarden 09 surprise from Per (more on monday).

Tomorrow we will start with the talks about ASP.NET MVC for Umbraco, where I am really curious about it.

Just check out the pictures from the first day from Doug.

Stay tuned, Thomas

Speaking at Codegarden 09

Only one week left till Codegarden 09 and I missed to blog about me speaking on this conference the last months. Shame on me, but now I am confirming that I will talk in the hacking session about using Webservices in Umbraco.

What will I talk about and what demos will I show? As the name of the session says I will talk about using Webservices in Umbraco. Umbraco has a rich API in the background which you can use via .NET to manipulate the complete content. The API is most used by building .NET Usercontrols, but not only the Usercontrols can consume these API. Every code written in .NET and running in the scope of the Web application Umbraco can consume these API. So Webservices can do this too. I am using Webservices with Umbraco in many ways in my company. This has several advantages especially the user experience when using Win-Forms connected to Umbraco via Webservices.

So some samples I will show will be:

• Simple usage of Webservice via Win-Forms: Reading from Umbraco, adding, updating and deleting nodes in Umbraco
• The same as before, but not using Win-Forms, thus I will use another Website made with the ASP.NET MVC Framework
• Using an own implemented search via .NET Usercontrols and jQuery.
• Implementing a search Plugin for IE
• Showcase of my ClientTools, especially the Log Viewer, the Version Cleaner and (if ready) a cool new feature

So I have only 2 days till I leave for the retreat meeting and I have a lot of work to do. I hope you will join Codegarden 09 and we will see us there.