Laura Weatherhead
Developer Advocate at Umbraco
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Laura is a Developer Advocate at Umbraco and based in the UK. She is an Umbraco MVP, international speaker, writer, and open-source contributor, and loves being part of the dynamic Umbraco community. When she's not being challenged by code, she can usually be found hanging upside-down at the nearest circus school!
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Creating and delivering multi-dimensional content in Umbraco 13, 14 and 15
Umbraco is an incredibly flexible platform that allows for the creation of sites with multiple layers of technical complexity, however one area where that complexity often lacks elegance is in the area of multi-dimensional content creation, delivery and maintenance.
Multi-dimensional content refers to a single document that may have multiple translations, personalised versions or personalised component parts, thus creating many dimensions to a single piece of content.
In this talk we will explore the current toolkits available in Umbraco 13 for designing and approaching sites required to support multi-dimensional content. We will look at trade-offs for when complexity becomes unwieldy, from both a technical and editorial design viewpoint, and we will also look ahead to new features and tools that may support multi-dimensional content delivery in future versions of Umbraco.
Custom property converters for the v12 Content Delivery API
In this lightning talk we will be walking through an example usecase for creating, parsing and converting a custom property editor for the Content Delivery API in umbraco v12.
The Content Delivery API introduces an out-of-the-box option for delivering content headlessly to multiple channels, and there are multiple points available for possible custom extensions. In this talk we will look at the example of tailoring content to multiple user groups at the property level, and how this could be delivered to the front-end framework in the simplest format.
The compassionate developer in open-source
Pragmatism has long been lauded for its merits within the technical sphere, but as the industry grows older, bigger and takes on new ubiquitous social responsibilities, compassion opens the door to a core function that considers the end-users, editors and future developers who will inherit and maintain code that we write today.
In terms of what this means for open-source, evidence suggests that placing compassion as a central pillar may have far-reaching improvements on the barriers to entry for new contributors and for retaining existing contributors, so exploring what this means to us individually feels more important than ever.
This talk offers short exploration of how prioritising compassion improves development output, not just in terms of ethics, accessibility and addressing AI biases, but also in terms of improving technical quality, and more broadly when operating as an individual within an open-source community.
Candid Contributions - a discussion on the Open Source tech-sphere in 2020
Introducing four developers who will explore the importance of contributing to open source projects; not just from a coding perspective, but from the impact that meaningful contributions can have on the wider community, tech and careers. Every developer wants to grow on a technical level, but sometimes the most important, and hardest, growth is that which comes through being outside one's comfort zone, and open source software and community provides many paths through which to take advantage of this.
In this session, we will link how our experiences in open source have led us to where we are now and each subject-matter expert will be forward-facing with her hopes for where open source will lead us tomorrow. We will delve into the deeper technical sphere of how meaningful contributions underlie all aspects of technical interactions - from meet-ups to package development to building the vehicle for the Umbraco of the future.We will use a structured discussion format to move between a concrete set of topics that we believe will be of interest to a varied audience from the technical to the creative.
As a collective, we view ourselves as uniquely qualified to help smooth out the bumps for new and returning contributors. We recognise that perspectives within the technical space still lack consistent gender balance and hope that by exploring the importance of contribution and inclusion we can inspire others to get involved. From this session, you can expect lively discussion around the complexities of participating in an ever-progressing tech ecosystem, along with personal anecdotes, insights and wider hopes for the future.
Debugging the brain
As a developer, I have made a living out of trying to solve problems. This talk is about what happens when you can't solve a problem, and combines scientific research, personal experience and professional learnings to explore what is happening in the brain when you get stuck and how you can get yourself moving again.
We will look at the common causes of feeling defeated such as tiredness, feeling oppressed by your workload and subject matter confusion. Each topic is broken down into component parts and we look at what might make one feel this way - often from a neuro-psychological perspective - and suggest mechanisms for overcoming these obstacles.
It is hoped that by exposing our current understanding of the brain and the metacognition that underlies our problem solving abilities, it will lend confidence to the participants when they find themselves in similar situations in the future as well as give them optimism in circumstances that often feel futile.
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