Learning / Education

UKIE invited Stuart (our CEO) to speak at their event Making Games for Esports.  

At Code Wizards we love working with great partners and people.  We've worked with Leanne (and enjoyed it immensely) so when she formed her new business system-f we of course offered to introduce her to our clients, partners and friends. Leanne - over to you! Hello!... We are system-f, an independent Salesforce end user training practice. We have over 15 years’ experience of ...

We recently completed a project to transform a client's Content Management System (CMS) from the Sitecore platform to Umbraco. My part was to figure out how to migrate the content using a systematic, repeatable methodology. That's what we're going to cover off here to help you do the same. The constraint? We did not have access to any of the customised source code, only the d ...

At Code Wizards we're very lucky with our clients and friends.  Today was a great day as we were a small part of the launch of Music for Youth's The Future Is Now programme. Music for Youth ("MFY") have spent 50 years (yes fifty!) helping young people to have enjoy, perform, compose and be part of music.  This body of work has helped 10,000s of young people find a productive a ...

Umbraco is an amazing CMS.  Out of the box you can easily manage who can see private content but all your other assets are assumed available.

We've created a simple package to secure these assets and we're making it available to the community.

To start with, what is a hackathon? A hackathon is usually a programming event, where the participants are given a set time to develop something from scratch, after which they demo it to the rest of the participants and a panel of judges. The categories of the judging are usually set by the event organisers and/or the various sponsors that make the event possible. Depending on ...

Ever wished you could clone yourself? Or get some clarity and structure over your work?

For many people, business feels chaotic, unfocused and disorganised... and finding the time to work on the important projects seems almost impossible.

Sound familiar?

Think back to the last time you were deep in the zone—time flew by and the work flowed through you almost effortlessly. That’s how work should be.

Instead, information is scattered and responsibilities are vague. We try to cut through the chaos with endless meetings and micromanagement, but we just end up with less time and more stress.

For some strange reason, this seems to have become accepted as a normal part of life. It's as if we've somehow come to view chaos as a necessary cost of doing business. But it doesn't have to be that way.

At Code Wizards, we love Umbraco. It's a fantastic flexible CMS and, for us, it's the right tool for the job 99% of the time.

But if you've not spent a lot of time with Umbraco it can sometimes be a little unclear how you can add middleware in to the OWIN pipeline.

Especially when a new major version of Umbraco is released and things have drastically changed.

We were thrilled to be part of R U Hacking. A great event with a fantastic group of talented and enthusiastic hackers. #RUHacking It was encouraging to see the wide array of technologies being employed and fascinating to learn about how each team decided on their challenge and solution.  Teams didn't play it safe and many of them utilised languages and frameworks they had neve ...