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How to run .NETCore Umbraco CMS on a MacBook

Do you work at agency who build sites using Umbraco and all your colleagues use Windows machines, but you love your MacBook you end up using VMWare or Parallels to run a virtual copy of Windows on your Mac, just so you can develop alongside your colleagues. Well I have just the perfect post for you…

Let’s carry on reading to take a look how easy it can be to have Umbraco 9 aka the .NETCore edition of the Microsoft .NETCore Open Source CMS running directly on your Mac !

How to use GitHub Sponsors to help monetize your software

Hi it’s been a while since I have written a blog post, but with the typical new year, new me, new year resolutions I’ll try to blog a bit more often. Anyway what I want to talk about is, how last year I used GitHub Sponsors with GraphQL to create a sponsorware message in my Visual Studio Code Extension – IIS Express to give a friendly reminder.

Carrying on reading and I will show you how you could use GitHub Sponsors to help monetize some of your software projects either with a sponsorware style message or to add some premium features.