Hello new readership,
Firstly, welcome to the Code Gecko's blog. It's been ages since
I took it down off DotNetNuke at the beginning of December so I
guess I'd better give everyone a nice shiny update on life.
I lost access to my dedicated server through a downturn in work,
and I'd been using Umbraco to build a site or two, so I was faced
with a choice: Do I stick to DNN or move to this rather awesome
Umbraco platform, and hack around with the core to make it work on
a shared hosting environment?
I chose the latter, published my build on the 31st December
(which has had 200+ downloads to date) and got promoted to the
Umbraco core team. I'm now a Level 2 Certified Developer and a
systems architect for a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner - what a
turnaround in less than 3 months!
I gave a presentation as part of the Umbraco 5th birthday
celebrations at the Tattershall Castle in London, on the Thames
overlooking the London Eye and next door to Embankment tube
station, which seemed to go down pretty well.
Right, back to the blog...
The design is temporary cause I'm refactoring the Blog4Umbraco
skinning mechanisms to allow creation, upload and activation of
custom skin packages or standalone CSS files, as the current
skinning mechanism relies on skins approved by the core - and much
as this one is nice and all, I have a design I want to use without
having to rip apart the existing CSS of this design and rework it
from scratch.
I've also fixed the tags datatype which should be going into the
next 4.1 release (beta or RC), as should Medium Trust-compatible
changes and App_Code XSLT extensions.
Lastly, I'm going to be blogging about .NET, Umbraco, XSLT,
creating a few packages, and other stuff through here.
L7rs,
CodeGecko