On 24 Jan 2011, 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 06 Dec 2010, 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
I am in the process of migrating a large number of sites from a Windows 2003 Server to a Windows 2008 R2 Server for a client. When testing the migrated sites I kept getting the all too familiar ‘Object reference not set to an instance of an object’ exceptions. As the site was in debug [...]
On 22 Oct 2010, In Windows Server 2008, by Simon Dingley
I currently maintain two windows based servers in the cloud with Elastic Hosts, one of my own and one for a client. On both I have scheduled tasks running and noticed that the time was slipping on the execution of these tasks over time. It became apparent that the server was unable to maintain the [...]
