A Christmas tale of migrating content from Alterian CMC to EPiServer
Filed under: Business, Christmas, Web Content Management
Tags: Alterian, Business, EPiServer, Migration, Web Content Management
Posted by: Steven Horler
If Auros were Santa Claus our children would be well happy this year. We are delivering a host of goodies to our customers this Christmas, and one which is top of the pile is a solid and proven strategy for migrating content from Alterian CMC (formerly Immediacy) to our favourite flavour of enterprise CMS – EPiServer.
What will I get this year?
Feel the need to migrate? So many upgrades are needed as CMC creaks and crumbles and the upgrade paths are more wide spread than ever before. It’s our job to improve the process and reduce the pain and worry. Can we do that? We think so, and we have with Virgin Media Business.
The Great Auros Mince Pie User Experience Test
Posted by: Martin Pim-Keirle
All characters appearing in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons or pies, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
Our test subjects, ready and waiting.
In a move that is in no way intended to be interpreted as light-hearted Christmas fun, we at Auros have decided to once and for all answer the pressing question of which mince pies offer the best User Experience. Not since the infamous Mince Pie Inquisition of 1643 (which resulted in the deaths of 13 bakers, sentenced to execution by being soaked overnight in brandy, wrapped in all-butter shortcrust pastry, and baked in a hot oven for 30 minutes), has such a thorough test of the pie-maker’s art taken place.
Risking diabetes and obesity, our small band of dedicated fatties Mince Pie User Experience Analysis Executives set out to perform a series of rigorous tests that would stretch their waistbands dedication to the scientific process to breaking point.
Why Umbraco works for the public sector: Value, Freedom & Opportunity
Filed under: Uncategorized
Tags: Cost, Development, Efficiency, Public Sector, Umbraco, Value
Posted by: Joel Williams
This is not a blog post specifically pushing websites, content management systems or even Auros’ (excellent) services. It’s not even a blog post about why the public sector should embrace open source software (although clearly they should if they haven’t already). If you are a public sector organisation this is a blog post about how Umbraco can help you!
Okay, let’s take a moment to look at some key public sector potentially aspirational online objectives:
- More for less – provide better services for less money
- Channel shift – move from traditional expensive service delivery methods to “self-service”
- Make access to data more open
Other things I think public sector should be looking to do online:
- Mobilise power of public sector – lots of skills out there waiting to be harnessed
- Promote culture of sharing, re–use and collaborative development
- Take advantage of latest cool technologies to aid objectives up ^there^
I believe that Umbraco can be a valuable tool in helping you to achieving all of these goals.
Experiencing the Twitter API
Filed under: Development, Microsoft .NET
Posted by: Steven Horler
Everyone here at Auros is bubbling with enthusiasm about the exciting strides we're making in the internet technologies, but I'm especially excited about my involvement in the Twitter API projects we've got on the go..
In this blog I'll talk mainly about some of the experiences of developing against the Twitter API for some exciting upcoming services that we'll be providing to our customers, and talk through the simple stages that you need to follow when interacting with Twitter.
First Step
Provide ourselves with some test accounts and then set up a test application on one of the test accounts so we can get going as soon as the provisions are in place.
To set up the Twitter application just go to https://dev.twitter.com/apps and create your very own fully functional gateway.
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