Cogblog:
The official Cogworks blog. A place for news, thoughts and insights on strategy, design and build.
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How our Umbraco Health Check works
Think your Umbraco site should be running more efficiently? Maybe it’s time for an Umbraco health check.
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Working with an Agile Driven Agency
What to expect from working with Certified Scrum Professionals and Certified Scrum Product Owners
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Updating Cogworks Umbraco Find and Replace: V7 to V8
I Initially thought it would not be too hard a task, unfortunately I was wrong...
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Introducing Nuxt.js: Why We Love This Framework
Wojciech and the front-end development team share their experience of using Nuxt.js in a recent web project and share some handy tips they found along the way.
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What it Means to be an Umbraco Gold Partner
Check out our contributions to the Umbraco project and find out what it means to be one of the original Gold Partners.
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How to Setup a Private NuGet Feed in Azure DevOps Pipelines
Developer, Greg shares his 4-step process on how to set-up a private NuGet feed in Azure Devops Pipelines
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Avoiding Inherited Project Horrors
Ever taken on a project from someone else and uncovered some unwanted skeletons in the closet along the way? We share our top tips on avoiding this nightmare!
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7 Tips for More Effective Code Reviews
Developer, Marcin, reveals his top tips for effective code reviews and explains how you can apply them to your working environment
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The Importance of Modern Web Performance Testing: Part 1
Cogworks CTO, Marcin explains why performance testing is so important in a project and how we can apply best practice.
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5 Inspiring Companies That Use Digital Solutions to Save the Planet
It's #EarthDay2020 today. We’re celebrating with a round-up of brilliant, environmentally conscious work being carried out in digital right now!
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Umbraco VS Wordpress: Which is the winning camp?
They are both easy to use CMSs, they are both Open Source and are both used by millions of people and businesses across the globe. So, which one is the best – pound for pound?
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Top 6 Apps and Tools for Productive Remote Working
Cogworks team share their top 6 apps and tools for distributed teams and home working.
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How We Overcame Multilingual Struggles in Umbraco v8
Umbraco v8 introduced a new way of managing multilingual content and at first glance everything looked great...but the devil was in the details.
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6 Reasons Why Your Business Should Migrate to The Cloud
Cogworks CEO & co-founder Adam explains the business benefits of migrating to cloud hosting.
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Process Mapping & I, a love story
This is a short story about how I became enamoured with translating almost every aspect of my job into a ‘structured series of actions or steps taken in order to achieve a particular end’.
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Umbraco Festival Design Evolution
We delve into the depths of our design archives to revisit the Umbraco UK Fest designs over the past 7 years.
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UX Design Through Creative Sprints
The point of UX design is its dedication to listening to other people.
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Showcase: Storm's Social Reach Feature
As #LFW fills up our social media feeds, we’re taking a look at our most fashionable project yet.
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Time for an Umbraco Upgrade?
Cogworks’ give you the lowdown on why you should be updating your installation of Umbraco.
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Introducing the Meganav Package
A flexible, draggable link picker for constructing site navigation menus in Umbraco 7
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Top 3 Reasons to Involve Your Content Team Early
Here's why you should get your content team involved early on in a project.
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One Media Indexer to Rule Them All
A reboot of the CogUmbracoExamineMediaIndexer package.
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Running Agile Retrospectives
Cogworks favourite Scrum meeting - the retrospective.
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Umbraco, CMS of Choice for Content Editors
The best content editing features in the Umbraco CMS.
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Five Umbraco Sites Making the World a Better Place
Take a look at Umbraco users who are making a real difference with the World's friendliest CMS.
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How Umbraco Changed My Life
Have you ever stopped to imagine the way the software we use could change a life?
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Using TeamCity for continuous integration with NodeJS and Grunt
Warren Buckley documented what we currently use for out front end build processes and takes us through how to install all those crazy tools!
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