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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. How Carbon Six Digital Offered a Solution  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…

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…

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…

Umbraco's Public Access feature enables developers with very little experience to build a membership site, with pages protected with usernames and passwords.  If you're logged in and have permissions you see the content, if you're not logged in you're challenged for login creds, and if you're logged in but don't have permission you see an error message. However, there are use cases where a site needs to show more fine grained options for password protected content.  In the learning portal we developed for Download Learning, a training module should show the video if you're logged in and have permission, if…

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…

Last year we worked on an Umbraco project for a FTSE100 pharmaceutical company. The project was to build and implement a personalised training portal, accessible from laptops on their corporate network as well as tablets on the open internet.Unsurprisingly information security was a big issue to them, and part of our brief was to ensure that all user logins were authenticated using their corporate identity provider. After working with their Information Security team and Corporate Head of Technical Standards we designed a system to integrate the Umbraco Membership system with the client's Identity Provider, Ping Federate, using SAML (Security Assertion…