On Friday last, ten of us met up in the SAS offices in London for the first Umbraco UK Developers Meeting. It was a great success, very enjoyable, informative, and as always Umbracians tend to be a nice group of people to spend time with. A day spent listening to clever people talk about clever ways of using Umbraco, personally I took a lot out of it. Including 6 A4 sheets of notes!

So I'm going to include those notes here on my blog for your viewing pleasure. As there's such a lot of content, I've tried to break it into related chunks so that it isn't so much a stream of consciousness from a long day and to make it a little easier to find the best bits.

There are three separate blog entries to come:

1. Summary of the Day: this is kind of like the minutes and includes who attended and what we covered. It's basically the narrative of the day, from start to finish.

2. Tips and Tricks: there were loads of tasty bits of information being shared throughout the day and I've tried to pull them out into a separate list. Lots of these you'll no doubt be familiar with, but hopefully there'll be something of use in there to nearly everyone.

3. State of the Art: this is like a statement of how Umbraco is perceived in the UK at the moment. Okay, so there were only nine of us there so hardly a representative sample, but it could be useful for the Umbraco team to see what kinds of things we like, what things we don't like, and what we don't really understand or are confused about. This is definitely one to start some debate!

I hope you find it a useful and interesting read. If you were there and you think that I've forgotten anything or made any mistakes then please let me know.

Enjoy,

David

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