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If you want to come to CodeGarden, book now! We've already sold 15% of the tickets and the registration has only been open for 10 hours.

There's a 100EUR discount if you order before March 31st (30 hours of umbraco joy for just EUR250!), but there's a big chance that there's sold out before then. So ask your Boss today - looking at the registrations so far it'll be some fantastic people who'll be coming to Copenhagen.

Also, if you're coming make sure to let people know in the forum - we've updated profiles with a setting where you can check that you're coming and a little badge will be added to your posts:

See you in June!

Registration for codegarden 2008 in Copenhagen has just opened, so to be sure to get a spot at the hottest Umbraco event of the year, book your spot early.

Don't know what Codegarden is? Read more about it here

Or watch the first video in the series of videos we'll be doing about codegarden. In this first episode we're talking about Codegarden moments, germans, the upcoming keynote, magic spoons and finally Niels has a good laugh.

Codegarden Moments - the video

(the video does not work in the RSS feed, so go old school and visit the actual site if you are reading this in a rss reader.)

As mentioned here, your favorite open-source .net based CMS will be at the Microsoft Mix '08 conference in Las Vegas

I'll be in Las Vegas March 4 - 8 and afterwards in New York March 8 - 11

So if you want to meet up during the conference or during my stay in New York you can get a hold of me via:

Email: pph (at) umbraco.org
msn: Ltl@e-mail.dk

Our long awaited product - Courier - for handling umbraco deployment is getting more and more mature and is finally close for beta release.

Instead of having one major product, Courier will be spitted into two products; "Courier for Content" and "Courier for Development" with the first one coming in a beta release next month. Both products will revolutionize umbraco deployment and makes it possible to transfer content and functionality between servers just by dragging and dropping - it's really Drag. Drop. Deploy.

It has taken an incredible long time and almost three years of R&D with a ton of failed attempts to solve the deployment issue in a stable and intuitive matter, but now we've nailed it and it's actually fun to deploy.

The Courier for Content does what it says - it lets you transfer umbraco nodes related to content (including Media) from one place to another - usually being between Dev/Stage/Prod environments, but the perspective is even bigger. With Courier for Content you can plan new editions of sites behind a firewall and publish the whole section in one transaction with a single drag'n'drop operation. It's hard to describe in words (especially with my limited vocabulary ;-)) so I can't wait to get some screenshots/video uploaded.

Courier for Development will follow in Q2.

Sign up for beta release and news on the Courier product to be the first to get hands on experience.

Even though we have a lot of really good tutorials in the umbraco books section, there are still a lot of knowledge out there in the community that not very many people know about. For instance the other day I stumbled upon a nice Action Handlers 101 tutorial, a screenshot from the dashcommerce plugin for umbraco and a how-to on protecting your umbraco back-end with IP filtering.

All fantastic stuff, and of great value to the community, but hard to find for someone new to Umbraco.

So as a complement to our Books section we now have a blog aggregation section under our blog called snippets along with a ATOM feed for easy syndication, hoping that it will tie our wonderful community together even more, and that it will be easier from now on to find quality content in umbracoLand.