It’s official! The company that I work for, Knowit Experience, is now an Umbraco Gold Partner. Knowit Experience is the leading customer experience agency in the Nordic region with 900 experts operating in four countries.…
Something that’s been on my mind for quite some time now is how Umbraco fits in the world of Kubernetes and Containerization. See there’s this notion that Kubernetes and stateful applications such as a CMS do not go hand in hand, but what if they could?…
My Unit Testing project is currently highligthed in the "Around the web" section on Skrift Magazine. It's also mentioned it in the lastet issue of their newsletter.…
At work we use TeamCity as a part of our Continuous Deployment procedure for all of our Umbraco websites (even Umbraco Cloud) and one build step I find particularly useful is the one that we call…
This week I was given the assignment to update a TLS certificate on one of our Kubernetes clusters from a .pfx file and so I though I would share how I solved it and hopefully it can help someone else in the same situation.…
If you need to display readonly data in Umbraco the datatype you are looking for is the Label datatype. With this datatype it is not possible to input a value for an editor in the back-office of Umbraco, but you can get & set this value through the ContentService API.…
The guys at UmbraCoffee Marcin and Callum are the best. Last Friday some of my blog posts where highlighted under a new section of the show called “Adolfi Appreciation Time”.…
I stumbled across this “issue” a while back when one of our sites would break for mysterious reasons which turned out to be related to how we'd used the HasValue extension method.…
I want to recommend a really great book for anyone who wants to learn or become better at Docker. See I’m not a Docker ninja, I’ve fiddled with Docker on a few occasions but I never really had the pleasure of being involved in a project where I would need to use it. So my knowledge hasn’t really gone any deeper than the basics.…
Almost every one of our projects moves towards a microservice architecture and our applications are rarely these huge web apps anymore, but instead they are a bunch of applications working together in a cluster of apps.…
This week I’ve been working on an integration to an external provider used for newsletters subscriptions and I’ve realised that if there’s one area where TDD is a match made in heaven it’s when you're doing API Testing.…
I had a little sparetime yesterday so I extended the UmbracoUnitTesting project with three additional tests examples and so I've also submitted these tests as a pull request to the Umbraco Documentation.…
I thought I would share a recommendation for a really great book that I think anyone who is new to Unit Testing should read: Starting to Unit Test: Not as Hard as You Think by Erik Deitrich. I read this book many years ago but I remember it to this day because it was an eye opener to what Unit Testing essentially is.…
Running your tests in parallel can significantly improve the speed of your test runs, but it could give you occasional problems especially if you're working on static implementations. Also turns out that depending on which testing framework you're using parallelism might be handled differently.…
My little side-gig was featured in this weeks episode of #UmbraCoffee as “Contrib of the week”. Thank you so much for highlighting it and for all your kind words.…
Around two years ago Umbraco version 8 was released and I was scanning the internet trying to find some documentation on how to do Unit Testing in version 8, without any luck. No examples or tutorials had yet to be made for this and the official documentation did not have a section on Unit Testing. So I thought: How hard can it be?…
I must say I'm impressed with the performance of this website. This site is built with the Articulate blog plugin and it’s resting on Umbraco Cloud.…
Every once and a while certificates on the Azure Kubernetes Service need to be rotated. If you dont you will receive this error when you try to connect to a cluster.…
Today I recived a package from Odense, Denmark from the lovely Umbraco HQ. Every Umbraco MVP (Most Valued People) recived a New Years package just as we did for Christmas. Mine however arrived 2 weeks after New Years, for which I can thank the Swedish Postal Office for their crappy service.…
When you're writing unit tests you may sometimes find yourself in a situation where you need to be able to access an internal class from within another project such as your *.Tests project.…
Coming back from a seven month long parental leave I thought I would take up blogging because I felt during these last few months that I really miss writing, especially technical blog posts. Since English is not my first language, writing is a great way for me to practice not only my writing skills but also the way I express myself in English...…
I made the 2020 Top 10 GitHub Contributors list for the Umbraco Documentation, finishing on 7th place. This was announced on Umbraco.com’s blog by Sofie Toft Kristensen:…
One thing I've always wanted to do is be a guest on UmbraCoffee, the weekly YouTube show focused on the world of Umbraco. So when Marcin reached out and asked if i wanted to be part of episode #154 it was a no-brainer. So now I can finally cross that one of my bucket-list.…
You know that warm feeling you get when you’ve submitted a pull request to Umbraco and now you just got it approved and it's ready to be merged.. No? You’ve never done a pull request to Umbraco? Don’t worry, we’re about to change that today.…