So Contour for Umbraco is really, really cool, that much is for sure! But.. Styling forms is really hard! You have to hack a lot of CSS to make a moderately sexy looking form. I am not a frontend developer so this usually ends badly. In fact, up until now, ...
So, you want to create and use javascript objects in Umbraco! Not a problem. I'll be showing you an example using "/base", Json.NET and a little bit of what I'm doing with Contour at the moment. /base Umbraco's "/base" is an extendable system for creating raw feeds directly from Umbraco ...
On Codegarden '10 I entered the package competition on a whim, after installing the shiny new Umbraco 4.5 on my laptop there. I was inspired to try and see if the package that I had not completely completed would work on 4.5 and when it did, I just added my ...
Just a few weeks ago, someone showed me woorank, a very cool website analysis tool. Woorank tells you what you can improve on your website to help search engines find and evaluate your content better. By giving you a score from 0 to 100, you can easily compare your site ...
Recently, I was told that I was being a bother and that I shouldn't develop in VS2010. Sure, the current RC is not the final version, but it's a release candidate, not much will change between now and the RTM (unless something really bad happens). But sometimes you need to ...
Today, I had a little problem after adding some properties to a document type in Umbraco. I've had this problem before and I keep forgetting how to fix it. When opening a node of this document type (in Umbraco's Content area, not the document type editor), I get the following ...
Wow, who would've thought 10 months ago when I was introduced to Umbraco that I would be nominated to be an MVP? I sure didn't expect that! I'm not asking for votes, I'm proud to be listed among giants and you can make your own decisions. However, I would ...
Rather than making a long post with a lot of images, I decided to do something new for this post: a nice little 6 minute screencast! It's just a quick run through of how I create a new Umbraco installs on my dev machines. It's easy! I noticed after the ...
If you've been reading my blog, it should be clear by now that I'm a bit of a fan of the Git version control system. I've been hosting some projects on Unfuddle for a while now, but have not been very happy with fiddling with SSH keys and setting up ...
I'm running a very simple web server for Cultiv and some other projects. It's a virtual server to which I have full remote desktop access. This means that I am the administrator and I decide what goes on at the server, no interference by my hosting provider. But, as always, ...