Candid Contributions

In this episode we chat about the recent Umbraco Spark Innovation Conference that we all attended in person in Bristol. Plot-spoil: it was awesome!
Carole, Laura and Lotte were on the speakers list so we discuss the talks they gave, everyone's highlights from the day, and just how good it is to be with other Umbracians again. Roll on Codegarden!

• Visit the Umbraco Spark website (includes links to talk slides, nothing was recorded)
• Check out Lotte's "opinionated" package starter template
• Sign up to the "Packages Question Time" meetup (virtual, March 24th)
• Check out the Codegarden 2023 programme (Odense, DK, June 13-16)

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We take a look back at the best of 2022 (spoiler alert, July was THE month for us) and look forward to 2023. We discuss how we plan to spend our energy and how to do so without draining our reserves. Which conferences will we get to this year and what exactly is an 'authentic boundary?'
We are also joined by Allen Smith, the newest addition to the Developer Relations team at Umbraco. We talk about his experiences at GitHub, how he defines developer relations, what he's looking forward to in the year ahead, and what not to name your record label...

• Find Allen on the Umbraco discord server: https://discord.gg/umbraco
• Allen Smith's Linked In profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/loranallensmith
• Allen Smith's Twitter: https://twitter.com/loranallensmith
• DeveloperWeek, San Francisco : https://www.developerweek.com/
• Umbraco Spark, Bristol: https://umbracospark.com/
• Lotte's cryptic crossword article: https://24days.in/umbraco-cms/2022/christmas-crossword/

If you have any feedback, comments or questions you can tweet us @candidcontribs, email [email protected] or join the Umbraco Discord server!

Having a good workplace culture leads to happy, productive developers. But what makes it 'good'? It’s not the same for everyone. We talk about workplace culture and the different environments we’ve witnessed from Silicon Valley to Denmark via the UK...
We also chat vegetables (of course), paddle boarding and the tennis/squash hybrid called padel!
We’d love to hear from you if you have any thoughts on this episode, or any comments in general! You can tweet us @candidcontribs, email [email protected] or join the Umbraco Discord and find us there.

We are back and chatting about our (hybrid) attendance at Umbraco Codegarden conference. Join us as we interview some remote conference attendees on how the event was for them.
Let us know what you think #theCodegardenEffect is!
If you have any feedback, comments or questions you can tweet us @candidcontribs, email [email protected] or join the Umbraco Discord!

We’re very excited to be joined by Maria Naggaga from Microsoft for this episode. Maria has been breaking down barriers both personally, being a woman of colour in tech, and professionally with projects focused on making it easier for people to learn and use .NET.
We discuss her achievements at Microsoft, what it’s like working in open source on such a large scale, and what effect we - the open source community - have on Microsoft.
* Coding .NET in the browser with Try.NET - https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/platform/try-dotnet
* Minimal APIs available in .NET 6 - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/fundamentals/minimal-apis
* Minimal APIs work in progress docs - https://minimal-apis.github.io
* Maria on Twitter - https://twitter.com/ladynaggaga
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