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Here is a really useful tip for all web developers. It shows you how you use custom urls for your local dev machine websites without having to edit the hosts file.

I needed to remove my personal details from Troy Hunt's website. This post shows you why and how I did it.

This post shows you how to get the current umbraco website domain address including http(s):// in the simplest way possible.

Ironically, this question gets asked a lot, so I thought I would show you how simple and easy it is to create an FAQs page in Umbraco using the Archetype package, in 7 easy steps.

This post shows you how to protect media in Umbraco. It works on the idea that you can put the media you want to protect in a parent folder, perhaps called 'Protected'. In that you can have your files and folders which are not public. But you can also have public media files and folders which can be seen by all.

This post gives you the code to help you build an API url with the parameters and a quick way to call a simple get method and parse the results to the object you are expecting back from the API.

This post gives you an introduction into Test Driven Development. It uses a simple, real world example to show you how to get started.

This post shows you how you can create a custom Html Helper Extension Method for your own Umbraco and MVC projects.

JavaScript is anything but a "static" language (pun intended). It seems everything is changing - even the naming of releases has changed, with years marking the language version. But which features you can use now? Or Soon? It isn't always obvious, but there are a few key features of the latest and upcoming JavaScript features to which you should be paying attention.

This post shows you how you can use package actions to modify, update, or set configurations for your Umbraco site on your package install event.

This guide walks you Through how to set up AppVeyor for continuous delivery of an MVC or Umbraco site.

This post shows you how to fix the error No physical template file was found for template X. There is an animated which shows you how to fix it.