Articles

Over the years, I’ve written a number of articles in various places; I’ve put links to most of them here, for easy reference:

For “Skrift Magazine”

Collector of Great Moments

• About my tendency to not dwell on the bad stuff, but instead remember all the good stuff, to instantly recall when needed.

Frontend Fumbraco

• A breakdown of my approach to Frontend Development for Umbraco websites.

YSOD-Driven Composition

• A nerdy detour from coding into composing music (but from kind of a coding perspective).

Hotwiring Umbraco with Turbo

• Using Turbo to create a smoother experience in specific section of a site.

For “24 Days In Umbraco”

Using an SVG file as DataSource

• Creating a map of highlighted countries, where it’s easy to (from within Umbraco) edit which ones to highlight.

Reading Time

• How to build the popular “This article takes 3 minutes to read” function for pages in an Umbraco site.

Into the Cloud

• A rundown of what we had to do to move the 24 Days In Umbraco website to be hosted on Umbraco Cloud.

Content-First in Umbraco

• The details of an approach we were trying to handle the “When can we start to add content?” question at the time (in 2013!).

No More Empty Tabs, Please

• An early way of doing (and reasons for) what’s now possible with custom Listviews in Umbraco.