Moving Umbraco’s Backoffice customization to the client side means learning new patterns — and sometimes, new languages. Andy explores how to handle one of the trickier parts: accessing server data from your extensions. His example shows a clean approach using the Management API.
As we know, V8 is out. And for the go-getters out there that means it's time to upgrade those packages to work with the new version! But what about our clients still on V7? Andy is here to share a strategy for updating to V8 while dealing with the realtiy that is maintaining for V7 at the same time.
For some potential clients, the perception can exist that open source software's value is as low as its free price. Andy helps turn around that misunderstanding by describe the real source of value in products like Umbraco to clients.
Personalisation of website content is a theme Andy is hearing more and more from both his clients and in his project team conversations. Whether it be an e-commerce site looking to put the right products in front of customers or a charity looking to lead with the appropriate content for a given user persona, there's regularly a need to go beyond just a single view of content per page.
