Converge Data Type Converter
This post describes how I implemented a data type converter for Converge, allowing a different data type to be used in the destination site, when compared to the original source site.
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Use Converge to Upgrade to Umbraco 8
I think that the easiest way to explain what Converge does is to see it in action. Here I will explain how I migrated a simple Umbraco V7 site to Umbraco V8.
Continue readingMigrating to New Umbraco Versions
Before upgrading my current site to use Umbraco 8, I decided to revisit my experiences of moving sites from version 6 to version 7. When doing that I dabbled with the idea of starting with a brand new site and migrating the content separately. Here I take a look at applying that method to version 8 and from that my first Umbraco Package was born.
Continue readingStoring Umbraco Media on Azure
A quick description of how to use Azure Blob storage to store your media files in Umbraco.
Continue readingUmbraco Web.config
Before making a site live I tend to perform some tests to make the site as secure as possible. This usually involves using a tool like Qualys Web Application Scanning or OWASP ZAP to probe the site and then address any problems. In this entry I detail some of the more common changes that I make.
Continue readingUmbraco Membership
In this post I employ the Umbraco membership functionality to password-protect my blog entry form. A user must login before they can access certain pages.
Continue readingCreating a Form in Umbraco
A quick post describing how I implemented a simple form to accept film reviews for my Cinema Cento film blog.
Continue readingClassifying my Own Images
One of my pet projects is to be able to scan in images of my old diary and convert the written words to text. As this is a bit too ambitious for an early machine learning project, I decided to first perform a more basic analysis on the images: classify them into left and right pages.
Continue readingCreating a Post using the Tumblr API
In this post I detail how I set up my code so that it automatically updates Tumblr when changes are made to the content within Umbraco. When I update a Cinema Cento post on the CMS, it now gets created or updated on my Tumblr blog.
Continue readingOAuth Authentication on the Tumblr API
In this entry I explain how I set up OAuth authentication for the Tumblr API. Eventually I want to be able to write posts to the API, but for now I explain how to retrieve user information as that also requires the extra steps.
Continue readingReading from the Tumblr API
I have been keeping a blog on Tumblr for a number of years, and I was keen to replicate and (eventually) post to it from my Umbraco website. This post describes how I went about using the Tumblr API to retrieve the current posts on the blog and re-create them as content within Umbraco.
Continue readingTrying out TensorFlow
As my machine learning studying has progressed I have now learnt about TensorFlow, a Python Library that provides lots of functionality for implementing neural networks. I decided to apply it to the Titanic data I have used previously.
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