Last week I had the pleasure of attending the second edition of Umbracokalset in Stockholm and what a fantastic day it was. A huge thank you to the organizers Obviuse, Toxic and to Umbraco for a truly well-executed and inspiring event. The sense of community, openness and energy throughout the day perfectly reflected what makes Umbraco special.…
I had the pleasure to host a lecture for 200 students at Medieinstitutet on the topic of Sustainable Technology and Responsible AI. We explored how we can build and use digital technologies with both environmental and ethical awareness. We discussed the environmental footprint of the internet and AI, practical ways to reduce it, and what responsibility really means when working with AI. I also shared some hands-on examples from Azure AI Foundry and how tools like these can be used more thoughtfully.…
As of September 2025, I'm a Microsoft MVP in Azure AI Foundry! This enables me to continue to focus broadly on my contributions to the Microsoft AI ecosystem and not having to worry about not having enough contributions in one very specific narrow genre to maintain the award. I will of course continue Responsible and Trustworthy AI strategies and advisory since this is a topic close to my heart, alongside my other more implementation-focused AI contributions. …
In my 15 or so years of working with development, one thing is for certain: Migrations are HARD! I wrote an article for the LinkedIn Pulse platform "Rethinking Data Migrations using MCP (Model Context Protocol)" that experiments on a way to think about migrations that goes beyond just moving data from A to B.…
Earlier this week I had the pleasure of hosting a Fika Fast Talk at our office in Gothenburg on Microsoft’s latest (preview) solution for running AI models locally on-device: Foundry Local.…
Humbled and honored to share that I’ve been awarded Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional) in the AI Platform award category. Thank you Microsoft for this continued honor and being part of this lovely community.…
In a recent article, I covered how to set up Foundry Local to run on your own local machine to access it from your terminal. In a follow-up article I also covered how to give your local model a friendly user-interface using Open-WebUI. Now, let's take the next logical step and bring your local AI model development directly into the place where we developers spend most of our time: Visual Studio Code.…
In my recent article, AI is coming home with Foundry Local, I walked through how incredibly smooth it is to download and run powerful LLM's directly on your own local machine using Microsoft's Foundry Local. In this follow-up article, we'll take our local foundry model and connect it to a slick and functional interface to create a completely private, free, and lightning-fast "ChatGPT" experience.…
Happy and proud to announce that I’ve been awarded Umbraco MVP for the 7x time in my career!…
Honestly, it's getting harder and harder to impress me these days. There's just so much awesome new stuff coming out around AI, but this latest release from Microsoft really caught my attention. Trust me, this is something you' need to keep an eye on.…
What a night! Yesterday’s "AI in Action: What’s next?" event in Gothenburg was packed with inspiration, insights and engaging conversations. …
Yesterday at Microsoft AI Stockholm was an incredible experience! I had the chance to connect with so many amazing partners and clients, discussing the future and potential of AI together with my lovely colleagues Teresa Thorsson, Pernilla Vinneby, Sara Ingvarsson, Dan Jacobsson, Stefan Andersson Nystedt and Dr Peter Stiernstedt.…
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Yesterday, we hosted a fantastic Microsoft Trustworthy AI meetup in Gothenburg, named Fika Fast Talk, bringing together 35 professionals for an insightful evening. The session dived into the principles of Microsoft’s Trustworthy AI framework for responsible AI, exploring topics such as security, privacy, and safety in AI solutions.…
This post gathers thoughts from my recent AI and the future of E-commerce tour, where I traveled across the country together with Niclas Åström to share our thoughts on how artificial intelligence might shape the future E-commerce customer experience. Throughout these trips, I observed a clear shift in how people view AI over the cource of 8 months, especially around crucial questions regarding trust.…
This December, I organized an Azure AI Advent Calendar for 400 colleagues, aimed to spark curiosity and deepen understanding of Azure AI Services and helping colleagues see how these tools can deliver real value to our clients.…
I’m happy to share that I’ve passed the AI-102 exam and obtained a new certification as a Microsoft Azure AI Engineer, the highest level of AI certification by Microsoft. …
In this tutorial, I'll walk you through how easy it is to get started with Azure AI services, specifically focusing on image analysis using Azure AI Vision. Whether you're new to Azure or looking to add image recognition capabilities to your applications, this guide will show you just how simple it is to get started with a few lines of code.…
The Azure AI-900, Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals, is an entry-level certification that verifies foundational knowledge of artificial intelligence (AI) concepts and related Microsoft Azure services. This certification is ideal for individuals looking to validate their basic AI skills and understanding of Azure services that are applied in AI solutions.…
Earlier this week, I had the opportunity to be part of Umbracokalaset 2024, an event that brought together the Swedish Umbraco community in Stockholm. Organized by Toxic Interactive Solutions, in collaboration with Obviuse and Umbraco, the event was all about sharing knowledge and strengthening the Umbraco community.…
Microsoft Responsible AI is a framework developed by Microsoft to guide the ethical design, development, and deployment of AI systems. Its goal is to ensure that AI technologies are built and used in ways that are fair, transparent, secure, and respectful of privacy and human rights. Read more about the Responsible AI principles here.…
I’ve been playing around a lot lately with Semantic Kernel from Microsoft. I've created a Copilot in the back office of Umbraco that can help editors work with their Umbraco content using Conversational CMS, hoping to reduce some of the tedious, time-consuming tasks in editors' everyday life.…
Today, I organized Dev Day i the Knowit Experience Borlänge office. We focused on Azure AI Services, AI Studio and I hosted a tutorial and live demo of Semantic Kernel, showcasing some of its capabilities and concepts, and the response was nothing short of a success.…
I was recently interviewed by Knowit.se to discuss the benefits of upgrading from Umbraco 8 as it approaches its "end of life". In the interview, I highlight key reasons why upgrading is crucial for maintaining the stability, performance, and security of your website.…
This week, I had the pleasure of hosting a Microsoft Community Lunch Session at Knowit, with an audience of about 100 people. The focus of the session was on getting started with Azure AI Studio - a platform that has been generating a lot of buzz since it was release at Microsoft Build in May 2024.…
A few months ago, at the Microsoft Build 2024 Developers Conference in Seattle, Azure AI Studio was made generally available after being in preview since November 2023. In this blog post I will guide you through getting started with Azure AI Studio and demonstrate how to send a prompt to a GPT model using the OpenAI API.…
Lately I've been experimenting with automated AI Code Reviews using Github Actions triggered as part of our pull request process. Found this really nice action on the GitHub Marketplace called ”AI Code Review Action”, which after just a few minutes of configuration was up and running and gave some really nice feedback on initial testing.…
My session on how to get started with OpenAI in Azure AI Studio just got accepted for wedoAI 2024!…
I'm extremely grateful and proud to share that I’ve been awarded Microsoft MVP for the 3rd time in my career. Thanks Microsoft for this honorable recognition and this amazing community. Also congratulations to all you new and renewed MVPs out there!…
I wrote an article for Skrift Magazine! This was my third time writing for Skrift, but the first time in the "thought pieces" category. Not my usual comfort zone, I'm usually more on the technical side, but this is a topic that's close to my heart.…
I had the pleasure of hosting a lightning talk about .NET hashtag#Aspire today at Knowit Experience's Dev Day in Stockholm. A big thank you to everyone who attended and for all the great questions and buzz around .NET Aspire.…
Helping users find their way and provide them with quick and accurate answers to their questions is crucial for enhancing user experience and engagement. By integrating machine learning into your CMS, such as Umbraco, you can offer users intelligent predictions based on existing content. In this blog post I will show how I implemented machine learning in Umbraco using ML.NET, enabling users to find the most relevant FAQ answers using AI predictions.…
I recently had the pleasure of co-organizing Dev Day in Gothenburg together with my good friend David Skoog, and what an incredible day it turned out to be! The event brought together Knowit developers to share knowledge, collaborate and be inspired. …
I’m happy to announce that I will be speaking at Dev Day Gothenburg. I’ll be hosting a session on Machine Learning with ML.NET and SLM (Small Language Models) with a workshop on Azure AI Studio based on my tutorial on the same topic.…
I'm honored to announce that I’ve been awarded Umbraco MVP (Most Valuable People) for the sixth (!!) time in my career. Congratulations to all the new and renewed MVPs out there.…
Last week, I had the opportunity to host a Lightning Talk at Knowit Experience Gothenburg, introducing the team to the basics of ML.NET and how to get started with machine learning.…
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming the way we develop applications. As a .NET developer, you can use ML.NET from Microsoft to integrate machine learning (ML) into your .NET applications. In this blog post, I’ll walk you through creating a simple AI application using ML.NET in less than 5 minutes.…
Today me and John Beijar went to Oslo to visit dot.festival where we joined 140+ attendees from Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Poland, discussing how we want to shape future digital solutions and the responsibility we have as digital creators. …
I am very happy to announce that I have been nominated for the Open Source Contributor of the Year at the Developers Day Gala 2024!…
Today me and John Beijar spent the afternoon at University of Borås, talking about Sustainable Tech.…
I recently had the pleasure of speaking at the Umbraco Meetup in Oslo, where I talked about how .NET Aspire, Microsoft's latest love child, can be effectively combined with Umbraco in a microservice architecture.…
I recently had the pleasure of hosting a Lightning Talk at Knowit Experience in Gothenburg, where we dove into the world of logging tools with focus on elmah.io. elmah.io is the easy error logging and uptime monitoring service for .NET.…
Since I returned to Knowit Experience as the new Head of Tech we’ve introduced a new speaker format called ”Tech Fika” in Gothenburg. This is a bi-weekly opportunity for anyone in the tech skill to share whatever they like in an unpretentious ”mini lightning talk” format.…
In this short blogpost we're diving into the world of message-based communication, particularly focusing on Azure Service Bus. If you've primarily worked with request-response communication models, you're in for a treat. Message-based communication can be an extremely powerful addition to your toolbox and Azure Service Bus makes it exceptionally straightforward.…
Don't like writing unit tests or simply don't have the time for it? Good news – now you don't have to! As a newbord AI enthusiast with a long-time obsession with unit testing, I couldn't resist the urge to try and combine these two topics. Check out my latest blog post "Unit Testing with ChatGPT," to discover how you can use ChatGPT to generate test cases and code for you.…
By adopting a proactive mindset this allows us to focus on anticipating and addressing potential issues before they escalate. We believe that holistic customer care requires being one step ahead of problems and acting on them promptly.…
I'm happy to share that I've been selected one of six finalists for the Developer of the Year award at the Developer Day conference in Stockholm, Sweden 13th of September.…
In this article, I'm going to demonstrate three very common but possibly confusing assertion differences in the world of C# testing: Assert.AreEqual, Assert.AreSame and Should().BeEquivalentTo.…
Whenever a content item is published in Umbraco a ContentPublishingNotification event will be triggered. By creating our own NotificationHandler we can hijack this event and cancel or extend the default notification when a user is publishing a content node in Umbraco.…
Sometimes setting things up can get a bit messy, especially when we want to test coupled code with a lot of dependencies. This is where the Builder Pattern comes in handy - it helps us create objects in an easier and cleaner way, especially when they are a bit complex to set up.…
If you've ever dived deep into the world of Kubernetes, you know the challenges it can present. While it's a powerful tool, maintaining Kubernetes can sometimes feel a bit overwhelming.…
.NET Aspire, the latest iteration in the .NET family, offers a modular, high-performance framework for building web applications.…
In my previous article I shared a tutorial on how you can get started with .NET Aspire with a brand new Umbraco 13 website running on .NET 8. In this follow-up tutorial I'll cover how you can make the same transition to .NET Aspire but with an existing pre-Umbraco 13 website.…
Last week I was a guest on tech podcast “Digitalterapi” talking about Umbraco, Open Source, Community and much much more..…
As I mentioned in one of my previous posts, I had a presentation planned at a lunch meetup in the Knowit Gothenburg office, called "The Optimizely developers guide to Umbraco".…
Lately I've been experimenting with the new WebApplicationFactory in .NET 6.0 together with custom Umbraco API controllers to verify that each API endpoint is up and running and that they return the expected output.…
This is a follow up post on my previous article: TRULY REUSABLE BLOCKS (FROM A BLOCK LIBRARY) IN UMBRACO 9 Why are we doing this? Why do we create a base document type with our block properties…
Today I completed bridging my Umbraco certification status from version 8 to the latest version 9 and I thought I would share my bridging path and experience with you.…
Last week I noticed a new feature in C# 8.0 called Default Interface Methods. Although the official documentation is great, it's quite extensive so I thought I would do this really short and simple breakdown of what this feature enables.…
Last year I did a presentation on Unit Testing at a Umbraco Meetup in Leeds and this year I have been invited once again, but this time I'll be doing my presentation about Moving smoothly between Optimizely and Umbraco that I did a few weeks ago in Gothenburg.…
Yesterday me and three of my coworkers arranged a "mini-meetup" for a local university here in Gothenburg called Medieinstitutet. We each did presentations that represented our skill: Frontend, Backend (me) and QA.…
I’m happy to announce that for the 4th time in my career I’ve been awarded Umbraco MVP! Once again a huge thank you Umbraco for this lovely award and for creating such an amazing community!…
Yesterday I was invited to do a presentation at a meetup at Knowit in Gothenburg. The target audience for this meetup was basically anyone that wasn’t a developer and wanted to know more about the various CMS & Commerce plattforms we are partners and work with.…
The other week one of our teams discovered a performance issue on one of our Umbraco v9 sites. At first, we assumed the issue was related to something in our code, but after some investigation we found that this also was an issue in a clean install of Umbraco 9.5.1.…
Better late than never I guess. The other day it dawned on me that I’m actually a Microsoft MVP. Like for real!…
Ever wondered what the process of nominating and selecting the Package Award winners is like? 2022 was my second year on the Umbraco Package Award jury panel, and in the name of transparency and openness, I thought I would share with you what this process looks like and how we selected this year's winning packages and contributors.…
Yesterday I was helping our frontend team to set up a new CI workflow moving from Teamcity + Octopus Deploy to Azure DevOps pipelines and I ran into a weird issue that I thought I would share the solution to in case someone runs in to the same issue.…
The other day I got a friendly heads up from Umbraco Documentation Team member Sofie Toft that the official Umbraco Unit Testing documentation had not yet been verified against the latest major version of Umbraco (v10).…
Today I installed a brand new cookie consent control to my website from https://www.cookietractor.com and I thought I would share with you how quick and easy it is to add a user-friendly, accessible and GDPR compliant cookie consent control on your website in less than 5 minutes (for real!).…
Yesterday I got a question on how to generate a demo licens for Optimizely / Episerver CMS and instead of just answering that person personally in DM I thought I’ll document it here, that way maybe someone else might benefit from this information in the future.…
As I might have mentioned, I’m using a Macbook and I recently switched from using VMWare for my Windows development (.NET Framework) to Azure Virtual Desktop and I have not regretted this decision for a second. However when setting up my Azure Virtual Desktop I had som issues installing Docker and I thought I would share the solution.…
Yesterday I was asked to take a look at one our clients Azure DevOps pipeline that stopped working all of a sudden. No changes had been made recently but from nowhere the VSTest pipeline task throws this error (followed by a bunch of other build errors).…
A lot of the times when I am working on a clients site locally I find myself in need of a Server Certificate for my local development site. Since all the clients other environments (QA, Stage, Production etc) is running HTTPS in makes no sense to run my local site over HTTP. Also a lot of clients use Identity Providers that requires me to communicate over HTTPS to be able to authenticate so not having a certificate is not an option.…
Both these configurations are "non-defaults" so they are very easy mistakes to make.…
If you are using custom controllers with ContentModel or ModelsBuilder models you will experience massive performance issues as your projects scales. This issue is tied to how ASP.NET Core performs validation on object graphs and a fix for this will be shipped but not until v11 as this is a breaking change!…
Today I joined Marcin and Callum on their awesome YouTube show UmbraCoffee to talk about my recent findings and background around the performance issue in Umbraco 9-10 (which I wrote about earlier…
I've been getting a lot of traffic lately related to the google search phrase "nunit runsettings example" which at the moment leads to this blogpost I wrote on how to use Playwright with NUnit, which doesn't really cover how to set up .runsettings but rather how you can toggle headless mode in Playwright (totally different topic). So I thought I would share a little tutorial on how you can set up a new NUnit project and use .runsettings and TestRunParameters in your tests.…
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...…
Ever found yourself logging the same things over and over again in your Umbraco application when doing HttpClient requests? Wouldn't it be nice (if we could wake up) and all of our request where automatically logged for us in one unified way throughout our entire application?…
Today I had the privilege of lecturing for the 5th year at Yrgo University college on the subject of .NET Testing. As always, the goal has been to give students a positive impression of testing early in their career and that writing tests is not something you "should" or "must" do but something you WANT to do because it is a fun and challenging part of being a developer.…
Having problems with your NUnit tests not running as expected in Visual Studio's Test Explorer? Even wiered, the tests might work for other members of your team but for some reason not for you?…
Depending on which mocking framework you are using you might have to handle optional parameters differently and in this short article I will compare and demonstrate the differences in the three major mocking frameworks NSubstitute, Moq and FakeItEasy.…
The other day one of our legacy applications threw this strange error during a production deploy: "Loading this assembly would produce a different grant set from other instances". This .NET 4.6 application is a load balanced SOAP API and strangely this only occured on 1 of the 3 frontend servers so when browsing the frontend it initially seems healty but every other random request would fail and show this error.…
The other day we got a bunch of these transaction exceptions logged on some of our production servers: "The operation is not valid for the state of the transaction". At first this exception was a bit cryptic, but when investigating it further is had this following inner exception: "Transaction Timeout".…
I thought I would demonstrate the difference between Loose and Strict mocking behaviour when using the Moq Framework. By default when you create a new mock and don't specify a MockBehaviour it will be assigned MockBehaviour.Default, which equals to MockBehaviour.Loose.…
Today I though I would do some syntax comparison between a few of the biggest Mocking Framework in .NET: Moq, NSubstitute and FakeItEasy. Although these framework have slight functional differences they pretty much do the same thing but in different syntax and lingo.…
In this article I will share how you can setup an API using less than 20 lines of code using .NET Minimal API. Next we are going to setup an NUnit test project and using .NET WebApplicationFactory we will call the API endpoint and parse the resonse as an products array and compare the actual response to an expected json file embedded in our source code.…
In case you missed it make sure you read my contribution to this years 24 days in Umbraco, the yearly Umbraco advent calendar. This was my 3rd year writing for 24 days and this years edition was about how to improve yourself as a mentor for junior or aspiring developers.…
In this tutorial I will cover how you can setup an API with Swagger and then add security definition and requirement to pass an api token as an http header with every API request. Lets get to it!…
This is a technique I’ve been using for years but it wasn’t until recently that I realized that it actually has a specific name. Using characterization testing we lock the current behavior in one of several tests before we go refactor code (usually untested legacy) to be comfortable that our improvement didn’t break any existing behavior.…
Using this pattern we create an test object builder that will centralize redundant (and sometimes complex) logic that we don’t want to have in each and every one of our tests. This will make our tests slimmer and more focused on what is actually important for the state of which is being tested.…
A while back I wrote an article on this subject where you have NUnit tests not running in Visual Studio and how to fix it. In this blogpost I will share the same soluition expect with xUnit since it involves some other packages and error messages it might not be clear that it is a related issue.…
Should private methods in C# be Unit Tested? Generally you don’t write unit tests for private methods since they are not accessed from outside the implementation class (private methods are considered implementation detail).…
This is a brand new feature (available to a selected few) in Google Search Console where you get topic ideas based on Google Search queries that are specific to your website (only available until March 28, 2023).…
Today our team ran into a strange issue when updating one of our Windows servers when all of a sudden our Prometheus monitoring stopped working. It turns out that this service, which should start automatically at startup, sometimes has issues starting up when Windows is performing an Windows Update forced restart.…
Sometimes when upgrading .NET framework versions you might get this really strange error in Visual Studio: -"Add a reference to ".NETFramework,Version=v4.8" in the "TargetFrameworks" property of your project file and then re-run NuGet restore?"…
Snapshot testing is a valuable technique for testing software applications. Using this technique we can capture the state of an application at a specific point in time and compare it to a previously recorded state, known as a snapshot.…
In this tutorial style article I'll cover the process of setting up a .NET 7 project and perform E2E (end-to-end) testing using NUnit and Microsoft Playwright. With these tools, you can write automated tests that run in a real browser, allowing you to perform end-to-end testing of your web applications.…
By understanding the essential differences between unit and integration testing, we as developers can make better decisions about when and how to use each type of testing to ensure the quality and reliability of our software.…
It’s come to my attention, thanks to several friendly DMs, that my article “How to become a better mentor” was featured in the #121 issue of the Tech Lead Digest: "A carefully curated weekly…
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…
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.…
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?…
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.…
If you are having issues in the UI of Umbraco (perhaps after deploying, upgrading, creating your own custom editor, using a third party package or you are doing something else that involves custom css or javascript in the back-office) an experienced Umbraco developer will most likely tell you to “Bump your CDF version!“.…
Call me a nerd but I prefer to do as much as possible using PowerShell these days. Even the smallest of tasks that might even go faster to go through a UI I try to find a way to do it using PowerShell.…
This is a topic close to my heart and probably one the strongest reasons why I love working with Umbraco so much. When it comes to creating amazing editor experience there's a lot of things Umbraco gives us out of the box such as grid layouts, block editing, creating custom forms etc. but there are a few things we can do ourselves to improve the experience even move.…
This week I've been really busy blogging. Not only did I write three blogpost for my own blog, I also wrote a blogpost for Knowit.se on why we became an Umbraco Gold Partner.…
I’ll be speaking about Unit Testing and Umbraco at the Umbraco Leeds Meetup on the 6th of April. In this session I’ll be covering the basics of Unit Testing, how to get started and talk a little about my work with the official documentation and GitHub project on Unit Testing in Umbraco.…
In Umbraco if you enter your password wrong 5 times you are locked out from the backoffice. This is usually the case when a clients calls saying they can't login (even if they deny having entered the wrong password several times)…
One of the main reasons I hear for not writing tests is -"We don’t have the time!" and that it feels like it would take longer time to write code with test than without. But there are a few tricks you can apply to speed up your Unit Testing today.…
I remember in the early days of my career the stress I would have before each production deploy. I never had a good feeling in the stomach on those days, constantly fearing that something would blow up or even worse: that data would be lost forever! Today I work with some of the biggest clients in the country and deploying to production is as stress-free as getting a cup of coffee. Here's how!…
A lot of developers who embark on the Unit Testing journey will go: -"Okay, I'll write a test in my current project just to see how it feels!". This is almost always a bad idea and chances are you’re going to get stuck and give up. And here's why..…
A mistake you might do as a beginner tester (I probably did it myself in the beginning) is that you start of hopefully to a great start, testing is going great and you think you’ve got the hang of it…
The session was called “A non-technical presentation of a technical platform” and it was a “no tech-lingo” session targeting sales, marketing and people in direct contact with end clients.…
The endless battle between the two testing frameworks NUnit and xUnit is a hot potato and in this blog post I intend to give my two cents on this topic.…
Not only are unit tests great for securing the behaviour of your code but they also serve as form of living documentation and one area where I find this especially true is when covering regular expressions with your unit tests.…
So yesterday was finally the day for my presentation at the Umbraco Leeds Meetup about “Getting started with Unit Testing in Umbraco”.…
Using an IUrlSegmentProvider you can modify the url segment that Umbraco generates for any piece of content based on whatever conditions you like. This week I created a test example for this ProductPageUrlSegmentProvider and updated the GitHub project and I'll be submitting a PR to the Unit Testing documentation.…
Something I’ve been wanting to write a test for but haven't come around to yet is the Umbraco Composer that was introduced in version 8. This could look something like this.…
When building a headless solution your Umbraco installation might serve as an API and does not have any frontend attached to it. In those cases the default preview feature in Umbraco could become useless.…
This week I got some exciting news: My session on “Getting started with Unit Testing in Umbraco” has been accepted for Umbraco Codegarden 2021!…
Something we do for most of our sites is setting what we call a deploy flag during our deployments and then have our frontend render a maintenance banner at the top of the website. By showing a maintenance banner we can inform the visitor that at the moment we are performing planned maintenance and that they might experience disturbances.…
As an Umbraco MVP one of many benefits is a free certification course of your choice. Since I've already taken all the certifications there is from a developers perspective, I chose to sign up to the Content Management Course.…
This week I was curious to hear how the community prefers to start new Umbraco projects so I started a poll on Twitter, and the results from that poll will be revealed at the bottom of this post. But first I thought I would cover the different option and give my two cents on each alternative.…
I got a bit of a wakeup call today when I realized that Codegarden 2021 is less than three weeks away! As I’ve mentioned in a previous post, this year I will host a session at Codegarden on Getting started with Unit Testing in Umbraco.…
Last weeks Codegarden started on Wednesday with the Umbraco Awards and we were very happy when it was official that Knowit Experience won first price in the category "Best Designed Site" with the site for GöteborgsOperan.…
As mentioned at last week was Codegarden, the official Umbraco Tech-conference, Knowit Experience won an Umbraco Award for Best Designed Site for Opera.se. Not only that, but I was also one of the lucky ones to receive an Umbraco MVP (Most Valuable Person) Award. This was the third time in my career that I’m awarded Umbraco MVP which feel unreal just to be saying. I feel just as proud and grateful today as I did the first time back in 2016.…
During my session at last weeks Codegarden on ‘Getting started with Unit Testing in Umbraco’ I got a really good question in the Q&A afterwards, and I thought I would share the question and elaborate on my answer: -“What tips do you have for mocking services that are overly complex or have lots of dependencies that can't be null?”…
This week I had a little room left in my schedule for studying new tech and obviously I took that time to get up to speed on Umbraco’s new major version built on dotnet core.…
So I just got back from my summer vacation and I thought I would kickstart this blogging thing with a short and straight-forward blogpost that's easy to digest for anyone (like me) coming back from a long break from coding.…
I’ve always had somewhat of a love-hate relationship with the UmbracoHelper, mostly because until recently it has been a lot of work mocking this little helper. Until now!…
This week I found the time to experiment more with my Umbraco 9 Demo Site, and this time I wanted to build the products section that most Umbracians are familiar with from the original demo site from…
In case you missed it, I wrote a blogpost recently for Umbraco.com sharing some of my initial thoughts and findings when exploring the new Umbraco 9 version.…
I was invited to join the celebration of the new Umbraco 9 version recently and in the Umbraco 9 Launch Extravaganza had prepared a little presentation on how to get started with Umbraco 9.…
Last week I had an interesting issue with one of our clients AKS clusters, and in the spirit of sharing I thought I would document the solution and share my findings. I find that when it comes to issues in Kubernetes it’s usually not the solution itself that is the tricky part, which is usually just a single command line, but rather finding information and troubleshooting that I find is the most interesting to read about.…
Today I had the pleasure of lecturing .NET Unit Testing at YRGO, a local University College in Gothenburg. This was actually the fourth year lecturing at YRGO and it’s something I really enjoy doing next to my “regular” work assignments. This session was based a lot on my session from my CodeGarden talk earlier this year.…
When writing unit tests I often find myself having to come up with these kind of random test case data. But I recently discovered a package called AutoFixture which not only replaces all of the test case data in my tests but also saves me the trouble of having to come up with these random values myself.…
By the end of last week I got my #hacktoberfest pull request to Umbraco merged and this morning it was finally live: The Umbraco 9 Unit Testing Documentation!…
Finally it’s official! Knowit Experience Sweden just got awarded Umbraco Contributing Gold Partner 2021!…
Lately I've been experimenting with a concept of Site Variables in Umbraco 9 which I thought I would share with you today.…
I have been experimenting a lot with different UI testing frameworks such as Selenium, Cypress and Playwright in a public GitHub project and I’ve really come to fancy Microsoft.Playwright for .NET in combination with NUnit.…
Big thank you Skrift Magazine for currently featuring my blog post on Umbraco Project Structure in you "Around the web" section!…
So I decided that 2022 would be the year when I will start to implement more UI Testing in my projects. But, which framework should I choose?…
Tests are meant to replace our browser clicking and instead give us instant and reliable feedback if our code is working or not. The browser is just a presentation layer. Trust your tests!…
This week I finally found time to work on converting the Umbraco Unit Testing documentation from v8 to v9. The v9 version had some basic examples that I created a while back, but I want to bring all the examples from the v8 version in to the lastest version.…
I’ve really come to enjoy Papertrail as an online log viewer. It’s super quick to setup and I can manage and view logs from multiple project and environments in one simple UI with searching, filtering etc.…
Next week I'll be doing a talk at Knowit on how to move smoothly between Optimizely (Episerver) and Umbraco from a developers perspective. This is a presentation I've planned on doing for years and finally got around to.…
Last week I created a Twitter poll to try to get an answer to how most community members pronounce Umbraco.…
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.…
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:…
Earlier this month I finally had some time to upgrade the Umbraco 9 Demo site from the beta to the latest RC version, and while doing so I got some breaking changes that I had to adjust the code in order for my project to work, and I thought I would share these finding in this really small blogpost.…
Last week I opened my email and got a very pleasant surprise: I've been awarded Microsoft MVP 2022!…
Recently I got to lay the foundation for a new Umbraco 9 project and so I started to question and think about the setup I have been using so far and if it might be possible to improve somehow.…
As your are probably aware of, Umbraco does not have reusable blocks out of the box. However, there are tricks to how you can enable reusable blocks in Umbraco and in this blogpost I’m going to show you how. And it doesn’t even require any coding, all of this is configurable from the back-office.…
Ever heard the expression Bread and Butter Testing? Based on a quick Google Search I wouldn’t be too surprised if you haven’t and it could very much be a local expression* but I thought I would share what this expression means and how you may use it.…
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.…
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.…
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.…
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.…
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?…
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.…
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.…
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.…
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.…
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.…
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.…
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.…
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”.…
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.…
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