Per and I survived the keynote where we showed of Umbraco 4 beta 2 which is feature complete. As always our ambitions of always showing the most edgy stuff gave us a couple of bumps but in general it was great. We got the following Umbraco 4 demos done live:
- Easy install
- Automated upgrades from v3 to Umbraco 4
- Boost and Nitros - a common convention for building umbraco sites
- Improved UI, much faster and cleaner code - and much prettier
- Much easier and cleaner extension of the umbraco UI
- The new integrated package repository and submission in Umbraco 4
- Better security and easier administration of permissions
- Masterpages support including using SVN to manage history and rollback
- Master document types along with the story of how it got evolved (my personal favorite)
- Membership Providers, including use of the default ASP.NET member/role provider to protect pages in umbraco with personalized navigations
- The new event model. How to respond to new media created and how to add context menu items to the content tree for Check-in/check-out without modifying the core
- Live Editing, including macro containers, inline XSLT and new nodeId attribute on Item fields for accessing media and member information without macros
So it was ambitious and if we actually manage to get the video out, you'll also see that not everything worked as planned. But we did get all the demos done and that was awesome. Umbraco 4 is a killer and the reaction was really good.
And hey - American umbracians are as friendly as the European ones and thanks to TimG we'll have bingo running tonight, including the taggy music. How did that became a tradition :-O
Love,
Niels...
Btw: Here's my slides (they don't work with the default previewer if you're on OSX - use acrobat).