Niels Hartvig's umbraco blog

Jeg har dags dato sendt nedenstående mail til Plan Danmark. Jeg vil foreslå du gør noget lignende hvis du bidrager til en af følgende organisationer:
Red Barne, Kræftens Bekæmpelse, Dansk Flygtningehjælp, Dansk Røde Kors, Care, WWF, IBIS, Hjerteforeningen, Plan, Folkekirkens Nødhjælp, Amnesty International og Operation Dagsværk.

Aidonline *er* fusk. Nødhjælps organisationer skal agere under nøjagtig samme moralske kodeks som alle andre. Udskift en nødhjælpsorganisation med et firmanavn og du ville straks fare i flint. Læg dertil at Aidonline scorer 20% - der er altså ikke tale om et non-profit foretagende, men en virksomhed der med nødhjælpsorganisationer som skjold undergraver andre virksomheders økonomi. De kan have de bedste intentioner, men 20% er altså 3 gange så meget som f.eks. Dansk Røde Kors bruger på administration.

Det er utilstedeligt. Intet andet. Ligesom det er dybt utilstedeligt at der ikke er mere sans og forståelse fra de medvirkende nødhjælpsorganisationer.

Jeg er sikker på at Aidonline er historie inden måneden er omme. Men i kølvandet på dette mener jeg at samtlige implicerede nødhjælpsorganisationer hver især bør forklare hvorfor de er gået med, hvem der har ansvaret og i hvilken harmoni med deres etiske regelsæt det er sket. Ligesom alle andre organisationer bør de sikre at lignende fejl ikke sker igen.

Kære Plan!

Såfremt i den 8. Juni fortsat er med i fupmagerne fra Aidonlines aktiviteter vil jeg desværre stoppe mine bidrag til jeres organisation og dermed mit planbarn.

Det er meget vemodigt men jeg har stor forhåbning om at I er blevet trukket rundt i manegen og derfor ikke har været klar over hvad I er gået med i. Jeg krydser derfor fingre for at jeg fortsat er fadder i næste uge.

Med venlig hilsen
Niels Hartvig

If you wish to follow my weird ramblings about Umbraco then this a pretty bad place as all my blogging is going on over at umbraco.org.

I may blog here every once in a while, but probably only if I get a fourth child which would be insane and completely unplanned ;-)

Thanks for following...

Jeg smutter en tur til kbh for at deltage i sikkerheds tech talk hos Microsoft i morgen, og da jeg normalt bor i en ny med lille lærred er det nærliggende at hoppe i Imperial og se The Dark Night. Men det er sjovere at gå flere i biografen sammen, så hvis du har lyst så lad os impro-arrangere en geekdinner, spise noget mad og se Dark Night bagefter for dem der har lyst.

Smid mig en mail på nh/at/umbraco/dk hvis du har lyst.

UPDATE: Planen er nu frokost + eftermiddags forestilling.

14:19: An umbraco solution provider calls asking for Health/Public sector website references
14:20: Me saying "Uhm, no clue, but I can try asking the community"
14:50: Me twittering, "anyone got some Health sector sites"
15:40: Me sending links to six different Public Health Sector websites from the UK and Australia.

I love my job.

CodeGarden 08 is over and it went incredibly well with 100 enthusiastic participants from 21 countries. I'm back at the office working on a whitepaper on v4, but I just wanted to share some great photos taken by Douglas Robar which really make me realize how CodeGarden was from my point of view - before, during and after.

Before:
I was nervous like I've never been before. A combo of lack of sleep, dying to show the new v4 and anxious on how the community would welcome the commercial products almost made me panic, which these photos (at least for people who know me) shows quite well:

30 Minutes before start. Notice the blue projector screen. Everything was sorted and tested and in the morning my MacBook Pro just didn't wanted to recognize the projector in any possible way. I ended up disabling the graphic card (by uninstalling and deleting all drivers) and after three restarts where the computer first just crashed, then froze I finally had signal on the projector. Phew :-)

Last touches and coordination with Per - I think this is around 15 minutes before we started. Those blushing cheeks are not too much sun - that's just blood on its way to a brain working overtime!

 
Know your limitations. When I'm nervous I speed talk even more than usually as well as constantly saying "ahm". I knew that I couldn't do anything about the latter, but the little "Talk Slow" on the hand helped me getting through the first ten minutes.

Finally. As soon as it started I enjoyed it fully. Next year I want to set more time aside for preparation and I want to feature freeze demos and talks a week before it starts (Per, have you heard that one before?). I also want a computer that just works with projectors and then rehearse, rehearse, rehearse. More focus on learning better English is also something I've wanted for a long time. But I think I managed to say almost what I wanted. The only thing I didn't dared to say was how umbraco always have been influenzed by beliveing in doing what feels right rather than what people tells you is right. Next year, that is!

I love this picture - it just says relief all over. It had been an incredible day that really showed how umbraco has matured while still remaining the super friendly community. 30 minutes before this picture both Len, Per and Jesper had told me to head home and get some sleep (I almost fel asleep right in front of them standing), but I just needed to go crazy. The combo of guitar hero, concert-size speakers and disco lights was perfect. And oh - kudos to Per for letting me borrow and break a cigarete to finalize the rock'n'roll look.

CodeGarden was a blast and the insane emotions during the first day just tells me that I'm doing what I love.

Så har min kone gået selvstændig som samtaleterapeaut efter mange års tilløb og overvejelser. Det er ikke en let branche når der er så mange plattenslagere og folk der lover mere end man kan holde. Så jeg er så utrolig glad og stolt over hun tør, når hun (og jeg) ved at hun rent faktisk kan gøre en forskel.

Og selvfølgelig har hun fået et site baseret på umbraco (hun har selv designet det og taget billeder): bevidst.dk.

Tillykke, skat - hvor er du fantastisk!

De danske netbutikker med FDIH i spidsen raser over at PBS har været nede siden i går aftes. Det er også skidt. Rigtg skidt.

Men sager som disse er også smukke fordi de kan kaste lys over ubehagelige realiteter. Som f.eks. at vi har et monopol i Danmark. Det er jo i virkeligheden sagens kerne. Ultimativt er stort set samtlige virksomheder i Danmark der er baseret på ehandel afhængig af en enkelt virksomhed. Det er super sårbart og det burde FDIH kaste (flere) ressourcer i.

Det er i øvrigt også kun et monopol der i en sag som dette kan komme afsted med at påstå at en opdatering af en firewall er årsag til mere end 12 timers nedbrud. Helt ærligt, hvis det var reelt så skift den defekte spand ud. Både firewall'en og den person der opfandt undskyldningen. Hvis der er nogen der har redundans og testmiljøer er det forhåbentlig PBS.

Ok, maybe a bit pompous but I just had an eureka moment this morning about umbraco.

As some of you know there's a pretty heavy debate going on in one of my previous posts regarding a Danish company who "stole" umbraco and marked it as their own (Per made an English summary). Unfortunately the debate has begun to suffer from anonymous posts and that's just something I can't stand.

But as a blog owner what do you do with anonymous posts, do you delete them and suddenly start being the "god" of the debate, do you just let them stay and indirectly encourage other people to by anynomous?

No, you hide them with the option of showing them and that's where my eureka moment with umbraco came. In less than five minutes I had modified my umbraco installation to support this. I added a tab on the "Comment" document type called moderation with two properties:
1) Hide comment (true/false)
2) Reason for hiding (multiline textfield)

Then I added a simple choose (switch) statement in the XSLT drawing the comments and voila.

You can see the solution in action here.

Now, there might be some Wordpress fans outthere saying that this is probably already default in Wordpress (which rocks for blogging btw). But my point is not about blogging software - it's about the agile perspective with umbraco. That the flexibility of umbraco makes it so easy to do things like this without turning them into projects.

And that's why I took the freedom to be a bit pompous ;-)

Det er ellers 100 år siden jeg har besøgt krak.dk, men jeg må indrømme at det både er spooky og facinerende at kunne se sit hus på nettet så tæt på (og heldigt at jeg ikke stod og kastede op i hækken den dag, men billedet er selvfølgelig taget måneden før vi købte huset):