Written by: Gogo Magnus
Full name: Gogo Magnus
Company name: Sevitec
Role (Job title): Apprentice Software Developer
Country: Switzerland
For how long have you been working with Umbraco?: I've been working with Umbraco for about 1.5 years. I know it's not a long time, but I've still got a long way to go 😊. I've started working with Umbraco 8, but use Umbraco 7 much more.
My favouite Umbraco moment and achievement was finally running my first Umbraco website. After hours of taking in all of the information from J. Andrew Barta's great videos, I managed to run a fully functioning website, which of course laid the groundwork for the tasks to come. It's always a good feeling when your Umbraco website runs without any errors!
The thing I am most proud of in my Umbraco career was also the most challenging. It was when I was migrating seven websites (from Umbraco 7.5 at the time) to Umbraco 7.15.5, I had a lot of problems with getting the media in uSync to transfer correctly, partially because the files were either missing or corrupted. Despite that, I still managed to migrate all seven of the websites; the customers were content, and so was I.
Well it's the work that I do that keeps me coming back to Umbraco, of course. But personally, I think I really like the Umbraco community, as it's active and very supportive. Let's also not forget that Umbraco itself is very unique and a CMS like no other, making customization, and the slick style one of its greatest strengths.
As mentioned above, I manage 8 websites that run on Umbraco, thus I must keep track of them, and of course act on the requests and wishes of our lovely customers.
At the moment I am working on a request where a customer wants to implement a new forum-like site on their main site. My possibilities either are: programming it myself, or making use of a package like Articulate or Simply Forums. I wouldn't recommend Articulate for creating a forum though, as it is actually a package for a blog site rather than a forum site.
As some might consider myself a newbie, I can't think about giving tips for newbies without chuckling a little, but oh well, here goes nothing:
To get even more involved in the Umbraco community, and to fully understand Umbraco so that I can help others in need.
I'm currently watching an anime called: Shōwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjū. Like we, the western world, have standup comedy, the Japanese people have "sit-down comedy", called Rakugo, and that's what the anime is about. It's pretty interesting, and I like it.
I really don't know how it came to this point, but currently, I'm listening to all sorts of metal. I suppose when you've taken the road of rock, you'll eventually end up at some subgenre of metal. Be it power-metal, heavy-metal, nu-metal, symphonic-metal or even death-metal, I listen to them all, and for some reason... I like it!
You can reach me on Github and on Stack Overflow.
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