Those of you who have been onto the CodeGarden 11
website would have seen and possibly already signed up on the
session information and time table page. We know with so many top
notch speakers presenting awesome and informative sessions, it's going to be hard to
choose.. To make it a little easier (or possibly harder...) we've
asked a few of the CodeGarden11 speakers a couple of questions
about who they are and what they'll be presenting on.
Niels Hartvig
Q: So this year you are doing several sessions at
CodeGarden on version 5 of Umbraco, can you tell us what the
sessions will be about?
A: My sessions will show how big an effort we've put into making
existing v4 lovers feel at home. This has been one of the promises
from the very beginning and the core team has done an incredible
job of following through and I get the easy job of showing their
great work. I'm also doing an intro session on MVC which is mainly
targeted at designers/web developers who are looking for reusable
MVC patterns to use when they go back and build websites.
Q: What are you most looking forward to, at this years
CodeGarden?
A: Meeting old friends and introducing new people to the cozy
yet serious atmosphere that makes CodeGarden so special. And of
course giving the MVPs a big hug on stage.
Q: What is the most exciting thing for you about the
upcoming V5 release?
A: Even though we're not done yet, I can't wait to show the
amazing progress. With v5 the core team has built an amazing
foundation for the next five years which lets us move forward at an
incredible pace. It's the version of Umbraco that I dreamed of
building but never had the skills to pull off. As such, a wonderful
proof of the power of open source!
Peter Gregory
Q: So this year yourself and Paul Sterling are
presenting a session at CodeGarden, titled "Introduction to Deli"
can you tell us a little about Deli and what we can learn at your
session?
A: Deli is the new Umbraco marketplace where the Umbraco
community will have the ability to buy and sell commercial Umbraco
products. Our session will provide developers with all the
information they will need to get started licencing and selling
their packages.
Q: What are you most looking forward to at this years
CodeGarden?
A: This is a pivotal year in the life of Umbraco with the
upcoming release of V5, there is a sense of excitement and
anticipation in the air and I believe it will be the one not to
miss. It is a chance to collaborate and socialise with what I
think is one of the friendliest developer communities around.
Alex Norcliffe
Q: So this year you are doing a session at CodeGarden,
titled "0 to hive in 45" can you tell us what the session will be
about?
A: In researching and designing the architecture of v5 over the
past year, one huge common denominator was always the way we treat
data in projects. The sources of data, and their quantity, have
changed a lot over the past few years, to the point where an
average website is legitimately a collection of data from all over
the place: for example Twitter, a Flickr feed, an existing image
management system, and of course the CMS itself. Hive is all about
enabling a configurable way of plugging that content into the
underbelly of Umbraco 5, and still leave editing and templating it
as friendly as ever.
Q: What are you most looking forward to, at this years
CodeGarden?
A: I'm excited about the team being able to shed light on all
the work we've been doing on version 5 and getting those focused
and creative discussions going that only CodeGarden can
provide.
Q: What is the most exciting thing for you about the
upcoming V5 release?
A: Being at the coalface for many months means there's too many
exciting things to list, but I know I'm looking forward to seeing
what funky things people create with the tools we've built into
version 5.
Shannon Deminick
Q: So this year you are doing a session at CodeGarden,
titled "Get Plugged into Jupiter" can you tell us what the session
will be about?
A: Jupiter's (the codename for V5) back-office has been
re-engineered from the ground up with extensibility as a primary
focus. My session will be about all of the great new ways to extend
the Umbraco back-office by way of Plugins. Nearly all of Jupiter's
back-office functionality is driven by Plugins, from context menu
items to the editors you see in the right editor panel. In my
session I'll be reviewing all of the different types of Plugins and
their structure, the basics on how to create all of them, then a
deep dive on creating a more complex one from the ground up and
getting it installed.
Q: What are you most looking forward to, at this years
CodeGarden?
A: I can't wait to meet up with everyone I've met from the
previous years and actually meet all of the people on Twitter that
I only know through the Interwebs. Most importantly for me, I'm
looking forward to learning and sharing ideas with all of the smart
people in this community.
Q: What is the most exciting thing for you about the
upcoming V5 release?
I'm really looking forward to helping developers get started
with creating packages for Jupiter. I'm hoping that the new
framework will make it a breeze for them to create amazing new
add-ons. I've already had a few requests for how to get started so
hopefully we'll have a few Jupiter packages ready to go before
CG11!
So if you haven't booked your ticket to CodeGarden yet, then what
are you waiting for go and sort it out now.
Here at the Umbraco HQ, we love hearing from you all, so why not
tell us what your most looking forward to at CodeGarden or the
upcoming V5 release in the comments below.