Yes this post is completely useless, some how I have been nominated to be an Umbraco MVP for 2010 which is just amazing.  But I'm pretty certain which of the great candidates will get the MVP's (And deservedly so in my opinion) I thought I would game the system as much as possible, and I have put this post up as it should appear with...

This post isn't really a blog post as such, I thought as I watch all the LINQ videos and read various websites I would document useful bits of information that I can reference millions of times over the next 2 years few months. I am going to be adding to this page more and more over the coming weeks too, to save having lots of different...

“Not again” I hear you shout… And yes, yet ‘another’ Twitter package for Umbraco has been created. But, this one has a bit of a twist – I have used the current Twitter packages, but although I found them great the one I used was temperamental with showing latest tweets (Although the more I look into it I wond...

If you use Dreamweaver CS2 or CS3 and code in ASP.NET you'll know about an annoying problem it has (I'm not sure if they have fixed it for CS4) - Dreamweaver doesn't know what a Master page is and tus treats it like plain text, meaning when you open it up you get no intelli-sense or ASP.NET support!   This is really easy to fix ...

A long time ago I used to be into doing lots of affiliate stuff, building sites then driving traffic to them and making bits of money here and there – I remembered recently that I still had an active account on the eBay Affiliate Network (https://www.ebaypartnernetwork.com) and thought it would be cool to make a little eBay Affiliate Feed projec...

This is something very obvious to most, but as I watch a lot of screen casts / tutorials I would always see people typing in their browser things like umbraco.local or devsite.local to get up their local development copy of Umbraco - And I always wondered how they did it as I always used the built in Visual Studio server to develop on, no...

On one of my current projects we needed to create a custom article feature which revolved around using the TAGS DataType which ships with Umbraco, in this little blog post I’ll show you how to use the TAGS DataType to create your own mini article system and give you some useful XSLT snippets to save you the time I had to take to get it working. ...

I had the most frustrating problem recently when I was trying to extend Tim's locator package - I wanted to build up a dynamic XPath select statement based on QueryString values, for example if one value was present then select nodes based on the value but if another QueryString value was present select nodes based on the value of that. ...

I recently had a need to show a value from a Drop Down DataType I had created in my Umbraco UI - The backend users were using the drop down to create content, but I needed people to be able to use the values in the front end to also submit content via my HTML pages. In this tutorial I'll show how to recreate the dropdown list DataType ...

I have been delving around quite a lot with Umbraco this week, as we are building quite a cool little site for a client which enabled me to have a play with some bits of Umbraco I haven't explored before.  Feeling Umbraco'd up, and after being prompted to read Tims Custom DataType post by Niels SkinBrowser blog post I thought I'd c...