There's a saying in Holland that translates to (literally): "A good beginning is half the work". While that is a bit of an exaggeration, starting with a good structure to your new Umbraco site can be very important. Last Friday I was skyping with my friend Yannick and he was ...
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 ...