I spoke at the Umbraco Poland Festival in Krakow, talking about a case study involving Harwoods Group Intranet which I worked on recently.  In the presentation, I covered some of the business goals, talked about SAML Integration, and the Social Media Curation Tool plugin which we developed for Harwoods. …

Many people will know that the 25th May 2018 is GDPR Day, and the team at Umbraco HQ are busy getting ready.  The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a new regulation that intends to strengthen and unify data protection for all individuals within the European Union (EU). At this weeks Gold Partner Webinar Niels and Anders gave a briefing to the Partners to explain the plans currently in place for the toolkit.   The team at HQ has undertaken a detail analysis of the impact of GDPR. Obviously GDPR mainly affects processes for managing data, but HQ are keen…

When poor performance and a lack of scalability impacted the delivery of a marketing led digital campaign for a major financial services client their agency turned to Carbon Six Digital for help. Carbon Six Digital’s intervention stabilised the project preventing further delays to the project, and ensured that the final system met the end-client’s quality criteria and passed all security penetration testing. The code developed as part of this project has since gone on to be used on a number of future projects where the client agency were engaged by the financial services client, which has reduced the cost of…

To open up access to new markets in China and across Asia, Carbon Six Digital localised a leading UK fitness equipment manufacturer’s fitness technology platform using Umbraco and Amazon Web Services. The last few months at Carbon Six HQ have been pretty busy, as we’ve been putting the finishing touches to really important project for our clients Pulse Fitness. When Pulse decided to expand into the fast growing fitness market in China, we support them by localising PulseMove, their cloud based connected fitness platform of web- and mobile-apps. The project had to launch at the ChinaFit exhibition in Beijing on…

Over recent weeks we’ve heard a familiar story; several new clients issuing a cry for help with their Umbraco site. “We worked with an agency who seemed great at first, but it turns out they didn’t really know Umbraco. Now our site is broken / dangerously unstable / inaccessible (delete as applicable) and we need help so that we can make changes to our site without everything breaking”. Unfortunately we’ve heard this story before - many times, in fact. It’s the single biggest reason why we don’t try to be experts in WordPress or Drupal or Sitecore or Episerver. You…

I’m a keen listener to BBC Radio 4 - it puts me squarely into a pipe and slippers stereotype that doesn’t sit comfortably, but there it is. On this morning’s today program much was talked about the recent political upheaval, and hidden among all the doom and gloom of negotiating Brexit with a minority government was a panel discussion about what led young people out to vote. One of the hidden gems of positive news in the recent general election, are the reports that 72% of young people turned out to vote. This shouldn’t be a huge surprise - the…

Single Sign On (SSO) - where one set of credentials is shared across multiple applications - makes systems safer and easier to manage, and is often mandated in larger enterprise level IT departments. The SSO prototocol of choice in large corporate’s is the Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), and at Carbon Six Digital we’ve undertaken a number of projects that involved integrating SAML into Umbraco, which is our Content Management System of choice. In each case, our goal has been to provide a seamless integration for a core directory of users into Umbraco, while aiming to maintain the existing Umbraco…

If you’re tired of waiting for your dream Umbraco job, then Carbon Six Digital has the perfect solution - design your own. We’re a growing digital agency with big ambitions – and we’re looking for someone brimming with technical expertise to join us in a leadership role and help carry us forward. While most of the time will be spent on fee-earning .Net development, with a strong focus on Umbraco, we’re open to what else the role entails. We have a lot of spinning plates, and we’re looking for someone with passion to tell us what else they would like…

Those following events at Carbon Six Towers will know that last month we rebranded from Orcare to Carbon Six Digital. But I’ve been asked a few times – why Carbon Six? The name change has been an aspiration of mine for some time. I was unhappy with Orcare - we’d had the name since I dreamt it up circa 1999 when I was developing software and websites for care homes. But we’ve moved a long way since then. Now we are a specialist Umbraco development agency, building awesome .NET based websites for other agencies. We’re Umbraco Gold Partners, it is…

Orcare has changed a lot since it was founded. We’ve increased our skill base and the size and nature of the projects we undertake. We started off working for SME’s and still do, but much of our work is now for major agencies and multinational corporations. We’ve evolved into something different. So, to reflect this change, we are going to say goodbye to Orcare. Say hello to Carbon 6 We are changing our name to reflect the change in our business. We could give you some great rationalisation for why we have chosen to rename ourselves Carbon Six Digital but,…