I am a sucker for a good looking GUI so when an opportunity presents itself to try and improve my workspace to make it more easy on the eye I will generally take it up. Recently I read a post by Scott Hanselman ‘Console2 – A Better Windows Command Prompt‘ and I immediately got myself over to [...]
Adding DataType Support in uSiteBuilder for Umbraco. My initial contribution to the project and how to add my custom build to your own projects.
Once again my recent work has brought me back around to messing around with Globalisation issues again. This time it is with regards to writing a customer payment provider for UCommerce implementing the HSBC XML API. Certain fraud rules were being flagged on all transactions during testing due to an incorrect or missing country code, [...]
How to fix the exception ‘The create dialog for “Media” does not match anything defined in the “~/umbraco/config/create/UI.xml”. This could mean an incorrectly installed package or a corrupt UI file’ when upgrading Umbraco sites from earlier versions to v4.7.0.
My router recently died on me and so I had to revert to using a crappy little router supplied to me by Virgin Media my internet provider. I do a fair amount of integration work with the SagePay payment service provider and so I need to configure my router to forward ports to my local [...]
On 02.22.11, In Umbraco, by Simon Dingley
I never found a solution that I was happy with for adding unique id’s to a page body tag that didn’t feel like a hack. I often need to do it for very specific CSS targeting so I introduce to you my current solution using the new Razor syntax inside of a master template in [...]
On 01.24.11, In jQuery, by Simon Dingley
It is good practice to check that a plugin is loaded before trying to use it, thankfully this is very simple as plug-ins are basically namespaces inside of jQuey so you can do the following:
On 12.06.10, In Umbraco, by Simon Dingley
I am proud to announce that I gained Level 2 Certified Umbraco Developer Status at the start of the month!
After investing the last 4 years or so into developing solutions with the Umbraco Content Management System I was given the opportunity to take level 2 certification in London at the start of December. I decided [...]
Following the recent series of posts on issues I have had migrating client sites from IIS6 to IIS7, one common problem I had was on sites that use the ELMAH exception handler. The full exception message is “Could not load file or assembly ‘System.Data.SQLite’ or one of its dependencies. An attempt was made to load [...]
If your site uses any httpHandlers or httpModules you will need to perform these steps to migrate your web.config to include the missing configuration sections required by IIS7 using AppCmd.exe
