Well… we sent Jon off to CodeGarden, had a chuckle over the fact
that he got to spend 3 days in Copenhagen living the life when
actually he was busier than ever - attending conferences, meeting
the team and… picking up awards! Yes, we're thrilled to say
that we won 'Best Integration' at the Umbraco Awards 2011.
The Best Integration Award is for our work on integrating
Umbraco (the open source .net content management system) with a
social networking platform for thisiscentralstation.com, an
online community for designers, artists and film makers.
Here's what
Umbraco had to say:
"This is Central Station was selected as best integration
because it's integrating a social network with Umbraco, it's a nice
integration, and its design and UX is actually different from all
the Facebook clones out there. So great use of a third party system
+ the flexibility of Umbraco in regards to design."
Winner of Best integration of Umbraco for
thisiscentralstation.com
Jon was heavily involved in the development work on this project
so it was great for him to be there to actually pick up the award
himself (see photo above, courtesy of Douglas
Robar). And, what an award to pick up! It's fair to say, it's
one of the best we've ever seen.
The Umbraco award is a customized Mega Munny (photo
by Douglas Robar)
The award itself is a kidrobot Mega Munny that was
customized by the Umbraco team. So, it's a one off completely
unique award. He's dressed as a wrestler so we think this means
that integration is like wrestling; which wouldn't be wrong.
It's a giant one too; you'd need a wardrobe sized trophy cabinet
if you wanted to lock it away. But for now it's on Jon's desk,
after the plane journey home, he's rather attached to it. Quite
right.
We're all delighted of course. We've been working with Umbraco
for a number of years and it's great to be recognised by the core
Umbraco team at an event that pulled in top developers from around
the world. So, a big thank you goes out to Umbraco.
You can check out the official blog post from Warren & The
Umbraco HQ
on their site.