Niels Hartvig's umbraco blog

The Depeche Mode Concert yesterday was a wonderful walk down the memory lane of my musical dna. I'm still most fund of the Depeche Period ranging from Music for the Masses to Violator, but the new songs was brilliant delievered too.

My Wife and I met some of her old friends and ended up front even though we originally planned to be in the back. It was so intense and the combination of a great sound - which is rather rare at a stadium concert - incredible visuals and Dave Gahan sharp as a razor was a blast. Maybe I'm not getting out enough after being a father, but I'd say this was my best concert experience ever :)

From a walk in the local park

I'm off for concert with my all-time music heroes and inspiration; Depeche Mode. I'm so excited - also looking forward to the warm-up by The Bravery, they sounds like 80's Depeche meeting Republica without a screeming woman in-front.

As soon as I get a chance to visit the basement where all the stuff from Pollas, Kasper and my previous office are kept, I'll find my old headset and start do some new screencast about umbraco.

There's a bunch of excellent reasons for this; first the current screencasts available on umbraco.org where made 1½ year ago and are outdated, full of errors and made for umbraco 2.0. As the regular reader would know, much has happened since :-)

It's the ambition to do a bi-weekly screencast lasting around 15 minutes. I'd like to let them run as a serie, so they build upon a previous screencast (but without it being 100% necessary to have seen them). Let me know what you'd like to see shown, here's a couple of ideas:

• Installing umbraco and running the sample website (using the Website Wizard)
• Adding a forum (/gallery/another-type-of-simple-app-using-list-galore)
• Extending the forum with protected areas using the member system
• Using Visual Studio and the umbraco businesslogic (API) to customize the forum even more
• ....?

Asking a freelancer who has been here for seven year, contributing generously to the economy to leave with-in 30 days.

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