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, ...

Recently, I've been working on a site that presents 30 to a 120 items from Umbraco's media section in the frontend of the website. In the past few weeks, I've been tweaking the site for performance and noticed that there were an aweful lot of SQL queries being performed in ...

So now that you've started using Git, you might want to share your repository with your team using a central repository. I'll show an example of how to do that by using a free account at Unfuddle.com. Sign up for Unfuddle and log in to your account (through your_account_name.unfuddle.com). Go ...

So you're ready to start using Git? Here's how to start: First of all, go and download and install the Git extensions for Windows. The featured (full) release is recommended. In Visual Studio, you'll now see a few new buttons (in Windows Explorer, there's also some new context items that ...

Version control systems are evil. They hate me and are out to get me. I can't count the number of ways that I've been bitten by SourceSafe (safe.. ha! get it?), CVS, SVN and TFS. Enter Git, my saviour. For now. I have literally worked with Git for three days, ...

This is a really short tip: Don't create a new documentType with the alias "Folder". This alias has already been used by folders in the media section. In normal day-to-day use this is not a problem, but it becomes one when you try to programatically access the documentType by alias ...

Today, I was handed a piece of HTML which featured a login form. My assignment: create this in Umbraco, using the default Membership provider. This could be considered as an "Umbraco tip of the week", however this applies to ASP.NET webforms in general as well. I thought about applying styles ...

This morning, I thought I'd protect my site a little better to get some understanding of what would be required to do so. First of all, I thought I'd enable Windows authentication om my /umbraco folder. Couldn't be easier, right? Wrong. Apparently, since I am using the .net 3.5 ...

I've just released a simple Umbraco package that will create a sitemap XML for submitting to Google and other search engines. The resulting XML is 100% compatible with the sitemap.org specifications (which should be supported by all the major search engines). Of course this generator will take into account the ...

While building a website last week, I was looking for a way to make a simple contact form. Unfortunately, there was nothing available on our.umbraco.org. So I made my own package and it is now available for download. I've also added a tip to the forum to show how ...