This is purely to gauge numbers on who would be interested in attending Level 2 training in Bedford UK, if we get enough interest I’ll email Niels and see if we can arrange something?  Here are where my offices are based and I’d be willing to host the event for both days if we can get a trainer over.

Office Location In Bedford

• Very easy access from M1 & A1 North and South
• Direct train from St Pancras to Bedford every 30 mins

So if you are in the UK and want Level 2 training can you add your interest below – Please can you Tweet this out too so everyone knows about it

Thanks

Lee

Well I’m currently sitting on the train on my way home from a great day in London at the Umbraco 5th birthday bash.  I had a great day today and actually really learned a lot of stuff from the great speakers – A great part of today was putting faces and voices to the tweets and posts, and finally meeting the ‘other’ Lee who’s other half is also called Lucy! More...

Well I finally got round to finishing the first version of my business directory, as those who follow my waffle on this blog will know – I have been looking at porting my ASPLD (ASP.NET Link Directory) over to Umbraco for a while, but just never had the time.

But as everyone is pulling their fingers to celebrate the 5th Birthday of Umbraco, I thought I would do the same and finish version one of the directory and get it packaged up.  Below is a quick screen cast of installing the package and looking at the demo directory that comes pre-installed. More...

“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 wonder if its one of the settings).

Also I wanted to make something VERY simple, no API, simple settings and all done with ASP.NET – NO XSLT! No real reason, just because I can… hehehe.  So here it is, I created this SimpleTweets a really simple package that displays your latest Twitter posts in a user control and spits out the results in an unordered list.  More...

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 project for Umbraco so everyone else can easily make money from their sites.

I thought I would try my hand at a screen cast… Never again!  But here it is anyway, or you can spare yourself the pain of listening to me droning on and read below the video. More...

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.

So I tried what I thought was very simple..  I create a variable called $thesearch and build up the XPath statement within the variable like so

And then just use the variable in my select statement

Yep simple… BUT… Nooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!  God damn XSLT…. Grrrrrrrr More...

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. More...

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 in the front end – To get the DataType values you need to use a method from the umbraco.library() called GetPreValues() where you need to pass in the ID of the DataType More...

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 create my first custom Datatype.

Well I thought I’d go super complex and create a DataType that would take a YouTube URL and display the video… Oh yes… AND wait for it… The DataType would allow you to have two (Yes you read that right… two) settings to choose the height and width. More...