DUUGfest 2019

As the web has grown over the years, the demands on hosting for a site have also increased significantly. What once could easily be hosted on a shared hosting account, now needs to do so much more, from dynamic site generation, to load balancing and scaling on demand, and protection against cyber attacks. The hosting landscape is now more complex than ever. 

But what if we could go back? back to a simpler time when web pages were just plain old HTML files and hosting was cheap and simple? Well, that's what a growing number of developer communities are doing via static site generation. 

In this talk I will look at what is static site generation, what benefits it can bring over traditionally dynamic site generation and also present a proof of concept demo for how this could work in Umbraco to give us a best of both worlds approach.

At every festival, meetup and in a myriad of blog posts, we are reminded as Umbracians that our contributions are needed. Before I made my first pull request, I doubted I had anything really to offer. It was with help and structured support that I discovered my contributions were not just wanted, they were invaluable. 

Timed especially for the global Hacktoberfest event, this session I will provide support to people who find themselves wondering if they have anything to offer and where to begin. I will begin by showing them how to use the tools they’ll need to begin; including github, a git client, an IDE and more. We’ll look closely at the art of choosing an issue from the issue tracker, the conventions they’ll need to follow when submitting that pull request, the common pitfalls associated with getting the codebase up and running, the need for the careful documentation of that work and much much more. 

This interactive session will take a hands-on approach full of practical advice and actual tuition that will empower attendees to continue to contribute throughout their careers. Attendees can go on to attend Hackathons with confidence and build themselves a personal portfolio of work on github.

Do you want use Umbraco as a real digital marketing platform? Or are you already doing that? Big chance you've been using several external platforms and tried to integrate those into Umbraco. Maybe those platforms aren't really working together and they aren't really integrated into Umbraco. Is that the best we can do? What if Umbraco would be the digital marketing platform?

At Perplex we've decided to start developing a digital marketing platform called uMarketingSuite. Our goal is to create a full marketing suite, including Analytics, A/B-testing, personalization & marketing automation! In this session we will look into the approach we're taking, share our own expectations of the platform, show you the progress in the last couple of months, and maybe even do some live demo'ing!

If you need Marketing, and you love Umbraco, then you should see this talk!