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Code Cabin 2016
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Next weekend will be the inauguration of Code Cabin. If you haven't heard about Code Cabin yet, it's a weekend retreat for 20 developers; a chance to get together share ideas and hack some code. If you want to know more about the backstory, watch the uHangout episode when Matt announced it back in April.…
Tags: Code Cabin, Umbraco, Retreat
Bulk Photo Resizing with ImageProcessor
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I'm currently on a month long holiday in Sri Lanka, taking a nice overdue break from work, (much respect to Rich for holding the Umbrella fort!). During my travels, I've been keeping a family blog - journal updates, add a few photos, etc. However the WiFi upload speeds at the various hotels we've been staying…
Tags: ImageProcessor, C#, code
GitHub Activity Patterns: Star & Fork
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Confession time, I check my GitHub activity feed dashboard as much as I check my Twitter timeline. I know a lot of people who ignore their GitHub dashboard, but for me I find it a great source of information... to see who is working on what; if there are any new Umbraco related open-source projects;…
Tags: GitHub, Open Source
umBristol hiatus
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At our recent umBristol meetup earlier this month, I announced that there wouldn't be another meet-up until after the summer, as I'll be away on extended holiday; plus, there's CodeCabin in early September. I proposed to the group that if they wanted to organise an umBristol whilst I was away, then I can give them…
Apologies for RSS mistake
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For readers of my blog via the RSS feed, I have to apologise to you. When I relaunched my blog at the start of May, I was using Wyam's built-in RSS module - which initially appeared to work well. But I noticed an issue with my configuration after I'd corrected a typo on a recent…
Succumbed to the CSS dark side
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Well, it didn't take me long to succumb to the power of the CSS dark side! ;-) I had a few people comment about my website being "broken" - and my semi-auto reply of "going back to basics" - but this hasn't bothered me much, it's quite interesting to start a discussion around the idea.…
Tags: CSS