The News Curator Plugin for Umbraco is a new plugin we've developed to enable Site Editors to curate news articles from across social media and news websites and convert these sources into Umbraco content.   …

We’ve been working on a project over the last few months migrating a website from an older version of Umbraco up to the latest Umbraco 7.  Our work with PostgreSQL has been in two areas: firstly creating a customer Management Information System which provides real time reports of sales from the company’s PostgreSQL ERP database; and secondly integrating Umbraco Membership with data from the Customer Accounts data in PostgreSQL. This has been somewhat of a challenge as the tooling on .NET for PostgresSQL isn’t great.  Throughout the rest of the project we’ve been working on home turf using Entity Framework…

Recently one of our existing customers in the Education sector asked us to investigate options to to improve the integration of their customer systems.  Currently we manage the web applications that Tutors and Learners use to access learning resources, which we developed using Umbraco. Tutors also have access to an online customer portal developed by a different agency which enables them to register courses and learners.  While this is also a .NET based system it currently has little integration with the Umbraco site.  For example, users have two separate log-ins and passwords, and when logged into one application they…