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A big happy new year to you all … As its a new year, I have been trying to sort out a lot of my personal sites and one of the sites I'm getting into shape is this blog. Over the break, I have put up a...
View ArticlenForum v1.5 Released
Finally! I have released the latest version of nForum… v1.5… You can download and install it via the nForum page below. http://our.umbraco.org/projects/website-utilities/nforum Also the code is on...
View Article301 Redirect Multiple Domains In Umbraco
I thought I had already posted this up, but seems I'm going mental and hadn't.. If you have a client site in which the client insists on having tons of domains pointing at it, and you don't have...
View ArticleIs Responsive Web Design A Fad?
Over the past few months I have been doing a lot of reading up and watching of responsive web design tutorials. As I wanted to implement the technique into a few of the sites I have developed...
View ArticleGeeks Can Shape Up Too, Just Stop Making Excuses
Over the past year I have been trying to get myself in shape, well more than in shape. I have been trying to grow some muscles and get a bit ripped ready for the summer, but it hasn't quite gone how...
View ArticleWin 2008 Task Scheduler With Return Code 1 (0x1)
I recently had the most infuriating issue with a scheduled task on a Win 2008 R2 server. All I wanted it to do was run a .bat file once a day which fired a WGET script. If I logged into the server and...
View ArticleHashed Links & Value cannot be null - Parameter name: attribute
I have had a very strange problem with Umbraco v4 (v4.7.1.1 to be precise). We have a live site we needed to do some work on, but the database is always in use with people posting data - So we were...
View ArticleDealing With 1000’s Of Members In Umbraco Without The API Or Examine
I had a situation recently with a client site that has literally 1000's of members, and was getting about 20 new members sign up per day. I initially started off with the built in API, but each...
View ArticleUsing Linq Select To Cast/Map Objects
I'm always looking for cool snippets of code using Lambdas to reduce my code, I have opted for using Linq Select() extension method to cast objects to a different type or Map one object to another...
View ArticleUseful Script To Clear/Drop All Tables In A Database
Thought I had dumped this up here before, but seemingly not! Very useful (And dangerous) little script to quickly clear out a Db of tables. If you get constraint errors, just keep running it and it...
View ArticleUnable To Create Database Diagram - No Valid Owner
When restoring databases locally from other servers, you often can't get the database diagram to load and get the following error. Database diagram support objects cannot be installed because this...
View ArticleWhich w3wp.exe Belongs To Which Application Pool In IIS7
If you have a few sites running on your server, and want to know which worker process/application pool is taking up the most memory. There is a very simple script you can run. 1.) Make sure you have...
View ArticleGetting IPublishedContent In A Custom Action / Class
If you want to make use of the cool new Querying/Api that came with Umbraco MVC. Then its as simple as getting an instance of the UmbracoHelper like so. var uHelper = new...
View ArticleNew Training Routine
I've been doing pretty much the same training regime for a while. I had little variations, where I'd try a kettle bell session of some other session that was on at the gym. I was doing some reading at...
View ArticleGetting Older And Opening Your Eyes
After reading Warren's brave post on his 'dark times'. I thought I would publish something I have been writing on and off for a while. Over the past 12 months at lot has changed. I mean, a lot always...
View ArticleGeeks Can Shape Up Too, Just Stop Making Excuses
Over the past year I have been trying to get myself in shape, well more than in shape. I have been trying to grow some muscles and get a bit ripped ready for the summer, but it hasn't quite gone how...
View ArticleHow To Use The nForum Source To Debug Your Forum
I get a lot of questions on our.umbraco about problems using nForum in existing websites. 99% of the time it's impossible to diagnose, as I have no idea how the package has been moved around or...
View ArticleExport All nopCommerce Blogs Or Products Into Xml (In Fact Any Db Table)
There is a really cool feature that not many people know about in SQL Management Studio. Exporting to XML. All you need to do is use the following line after your query FOR XML AUTO So for example we...
View ArticleNofollow All External Links In Html Page Using HtmlAgilityPack
A little method to find auto find and mark external links in a block of HTML as nofollow and add a custom class to them. public static string NofollowExternalLinks(string html, string...
View ArticleSet Active Tab Class In Bootstrap v3
For some reason, OOTB bootstrap doesn't give you an active tab class when using their tabs solution. But they give you a couple of JavaScript events, below is a script to add an 'active' class to the...
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