Issue No 127
Document Everything Everywhere All At Once
by Dean Leigh
Documentation was always Dean's least favorite task, pushed to the end of the project. That's why he built UpDoc, a markdown based workflow. He walks us through why and how he built it, how, and how to use it to solve your own documentation problems.
Deconstructing Umbraco Compose
by Allen Smith
Modern organizations spread data across many SaaS tools, making unified views painful to assemble. Umbraco Compose fixes this by letting source systems remain authoritative while pushing records through ingestion functions that normalize them into shared collections. Allen takes us through how to use Umbraco Compose, illustrated through a fictional record label example.
Stay Plugged in to the Community!
A curated collection of Umbraco and industry related tools, tips, tricks, and tutorials from around the web.
Umbraco 18.0.0-beta is out!
Excited for what's coming in Umbraco 18 and want to start testing out the new features? We relate! The beta is here and you can go peek at what Umbraco has been working on with such dedication, like the initial implementation of Global Elements!
Check out the releaseThe Umbicosaurus De-Extinction: The Community Effort that Brought a Better Icon Picker to Umbraco 17.4
Remember Umbicosaurus, the dictionary for making finding icons in Umbraco easier? Having a thesaurus of different words to search for the icons you need was such a helpful feature, #h5yr to both Joe and the community contributors! The package eventually died, but Joe is pleased to announce not only is it back, it's now part of core Umbraco and you can even make pull requests to contribute!
Read the blog postGiving Umbraco 17 A Bigger Clock: Raising The SQL Command Timeout With A Composer
There's nothing more frustrating than running an operation and hitting SQL timeout errors, and Aaron knows it's not the "easy settings fix" one might expect. But extending the clock is still faster than it sounds with a little composer and a few helpful tips!
Read the blog postHow I used the new Umbraco Search on my website
The new Umbraco search is exceptionally cool and flexible, but pretty detailed to set up! Paul's article takes you through all of the ins and outs of getting the new search running on your site with practical code examples to get you up and running with a clear step by step tutorial.
Read the blog postShare the Love - Bringing #H5YR to jcdc.dev
If you haven't checked out the #h5yr widget, then you should definitely give a peek at James's implementation! It's so slick that we're eyeing adding something similar to Skrift ourselves. A big H5YR to James!
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