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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

Based on a recent experience and a lot of wasted time, this post details why you really should set the validation group on validation controls that you add to your custom Umbraco user controls.

I have recently needed to use the Umbraco datePicker control in a usercontrol I was creating however I kept getting presented with an “Unknown server tag ‘umbraco:datePicker” exception. After some digging around in the Umbraco Source it is confusingly not in the assembly I would have expected but it was in fact located in the [...]

There was a time not so long ago, when website developers were treated with almost as much reverence as pilots and surgeons. After all, without a website, your business was just not a player, non-existent, invisible to the world. No one had any idea as to what they did, or how they did it, just [...]

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.

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 [...]