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Developer Diary 2021: week 15
Welcome to Developer Diary, a weekly chat to share what a week as a developer is like, for me at least 😊
Developer Diary 2021: week 14
"Don't call it a comeback"... I finally managed to write a technical blog for the first time for months! A long weekend meant lots of coding, learning & alot of watching TV.
Building friendly APIs in Umbraco v9 (alpha)
This post will provide a quick start guide to using Umbraco v9 as a Headless CMS with friendly documentation for folks using your APIs.
Developer Diary 2021: week 13
MVP Global Summit, a local (virtual) tech meetup, podcasts & running.
Developer Diary 2021: week 12
Running, goal setting & reading.
Developer Diary 2021: week 11
Another week done already! A pretty chilled one for me: family, baking, jigsaws and books.
Developer Diary 2021: week 10
A short diary this week, but I promised myself to document the not so busy weeks aswell as the fun ones!
Developer Diary 2021: week 9
Welcome to Developer Diary, this week was a busy one for both community and day job! Presenting workshops and table talks, training and lots of reading.
Developer Diary 2021: week 8
Welcome to Developer Diary, a weekly chat to share what a week as a developer is like, for me at least 😊
This week: meetups, learning video recording tools & football.
Developer Diary 2021: week 7
Welcome to Developer Diary, a weekly chat to share what a week as a developer is like, for me at least 😊
Developer Diary 2021: week 6
Welcome to Developer Diary, a weekly chat to share what a week as a developer is like, for me at least 😊
Developer Diary 2021: week 5
Welcome to Developer Diary, a weekly chat to share what a week as a developer is like, for me at least 😊
Developer Diary 2021: week 4
Welcome to Developer Diary, a weekly chat to share what a week as a developer is like, for me at least 😊
Using Umbraco Content Templates
In Umbraco, Content Templates let us set a blueprint for pages using the specified node type.
Developer Diary: 2021 week 3
Welcome to Developer Diary, a weekly chat to share what a week as a developer is like, for me at least 😊
It was my birthday this week so I had a few days off work. Not much to do in lockdown birthdays but walks in the park and watching movies!
Developer Diary: 2021 week 2
First full week back to work routine and I managed to continue on with the blog and also some other positive routines, I will take that as a win!
.Net 5: WebAPI with OpenAPI docs
When building APIs in .Net apps, I have been using Swagger UI auto generated API docs for a few years now, so I was happy to hear they were now "out of the box" with .Net 5 WebAPI.
Developer Diary: 2021 week 1
Happy New Year! What a year 2020 was, eh? I found weeks would pass and it was hard to differentiate one from the next. So for 2020, I have decided to keep a diary, to keep track of things I have done and learned week to week. I find it easy, particularly in these "stay at home" times, to feel like I am not achieving much but I thought I'd write down and share what a week as a developer is like, for me at least 😊
Init only properties in C# 9
A useful new feature in C# 9, init only setters for properties, allows us to have truly immutable objects or variables.
Top Level Programs in C# 9
Top Level Programs are a newly available feature in C#. In this post we will have a look at how it is different in C# 9 and what we can do in top level programs.
Developer Diary: DotNetConf 2020
DotNetConf was a 3 day worldwide conference over 3 days (November 10th-12th) where we could learn about all things .Net from the teams at Microsoft and community experts.
Umbraco on Publish Event Posting to a Webhook
This article will discuss Umbraco publish events and give a look at how to use components and composers. We'll build an on publish event to send a message to a discord server.
Developer Diary: Microsoft Ignite
It’s been a wee while since I wrote a “Developer Diary” blog post and what better to return with than Microsoft Ignite! This year was fully virtual and I was not just attending but part of the speakers list as a host of a “Table Talk”!
Getting Started with Blazor
Blazor is a framework within .Net that lets developers build rich, dynamic applications built in C#, HTML and CSS. Let's have a look at how to get started...
Developer Diary: October 2019
Well, what a busy month October was. The fact I am only just writing up this blog post a week in to November shows how much recovery was needed!
Infact, I can't even find many words, so this month will be mostly photos!
Developer Diary: September 2019
I have often written blogs in a “developer diary” format for conferences or meetups, but I thought I’d try just writing what I have been up to month to month for an accurate description of dev life… it’s not all conference talks & side projects! I love getting recommendations for podcasts, blog posts or books to read. I thought it would be cool to share this stuff & keep a diary.
Developer Diary: August 2019
I have often written blogs in a “developer diary” format for conferences or meetups, but I thought I’d try just writing what I have been up to month to month for an accurate description of dev life… it’s not all conference talks & side projects! I love getting recommendations for podcasts, blog posts or books to read. I thought it would be cool to share this stuff & keep a diary.
Developer Diary: June 2019
I have often written blogs in a “developer diary” format for conferences or meetups, but I thought I’d try just writing what I have been up to month to month for an accurate description of dev life… it’s not all conference talks & side projects! Sometimes it's being tired and watching a lot of TV.
Developer Diary: Umbraco Roadshow Barcelona
Just a few days after returning from my trip to UFD19 in Frankfurt, I packed my bags and headed off on another Umbraco adventure. This time, Barcelona. I was joining the Spanish visit by the Umbraco roadshow an awesome new series of meetups organised by Callum Whyte.
Developer Diary: Umbraco Festival Deutschland 2019
Well, it's been a while since I blogged! What better excuse to start back than a conference trip!
Umbraco APIs with Swagger
Usually, my Umbraco projects involve extending Umbraco to contain custom APIs. As with any API we write, developers want to document it, for other devs, or maybe just ourselves!