On 12.16.09, In Wordpress, by Simon Dingley
I have been doing a little bit of WordPress work recently and as a result I have been working on custom themes for WordPress. In one particular theme I required that jQuery be loaded into the template and stumbled across the following wp_enqueue_script function built into wordpress. The function essentially adds a safe method of [...]
Creating a plain-text version of HTML that is suitable to be sent out as the text part of a multi-part email. Using C# and XSLT I have developed a working solution to the problem with help from a third party markdown XSLT file.
On 11.02.09, In Umbraco, by Simon Dingley
Some months back Tim Geyssens was kind enough to send me the source for his MailEngine addition to Umbraco before he released it on his blog. I made some customisations to the source to allow users to select templates and changed the filtering options slightly but other than that it worked jut fine for what [...]
On 10.03.09, In Business, by Simon Dingley
I have recently been working on my professional profile on-line and have published my Prolific Notion Facebook page under my trading name of Prolific Notion. I would of course appreciate any followers that might be interested in my work or my services so head on over there now and become a fan! I don’t think I can [...]
A great time saving shortcut in Visual Studio to implement an Abstract Class or Interface in Visual Studio. Using the shortcut will populate all of the abstract class method signatures for you.
On 09.21.09, In Umbraco, by Simon Dingley
The package essentially adds a new context menu item to the Umbraco CMS dashboard to allow media items to be sorted alphanumerically. The Media Sorter is something I originally developed to save myself and my clients time when working with large media repositories in Umbraco.
On 09.07.09, In Business, by Simon Dingley
Today Prolific Notion became an Approved Sage Pay partner!
After referring two customers already and carrying out integration work for two separate sites I made the decision to become a Sage Pay Partner and promote them as my recommended Payment Service Provider to any future clients.
On 09.07.09, In Umbraco, by Simon Dingley
I have just finished another upgrade from umbraco 3.06 to v4.0.2.1 and hit a snag whereby whenever a user attempted to add a new media item after the upgrade they were presented with the exception: “ERROR CREATING CONTROL FOR NODETYPE: Media”
On 08.23.09, In Umbraco, by Simon Dingley
I have recently been working on another package for the Umbraco CMS. During the course of packaging the extension I hit a problem with the existing package actions that were available via the core and the PackageActionContrib project.
On 08.15.09, In Visual Studio, by Simon Dingley
I started working on a new Umbraco package a while ago that begain its life as a Class Library. It had been a long day and some time into the project I decided I actually needed my project to be a Web Application Project but there was no obvious way to convert between the two. [...]
