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Developer Diary 2021: week 17
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 16
Meetups, sunshine, new tech and baking... a good balance.
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.