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235 results in Dev, DevOps, Git, SQL, Tools, Umbraco

dev How to make money from your blog

In this post I share 6 ways which you can make money from your blog.

dev How to optimise your website for search engines. SEO in Umbraco

This post shows you how you can add the meta tags which are required for search engines and sharing on facebook and twitter.

dev How to get a free HTTPS Certificate (SSL)

This post shows you how you can get a free HTTPS (SSL) certificate for your website

dev The four stages of Code Review Feedback - DAWA

This post teaches you about the 4 stages of feedback, and uses an example of a code review. Once you have read this you will be able to identify these stages in your working life, and sometimes in your home life too.

umbraco How to search by document type and property in Umbraco

This post shows you how to search by specific document types and fields in umbraco, using Examine.

sql How to convert SQL Server Compact Edition .sdf to Full SQL and speed up Umbraco

This post shows you how to convert a SQL Compact Edition database to full SQL and speed up Umbraco

dev Podcast Interview about Umbraco. Paul Seal on The Cynical Developer

Listen to my podcast interview about Umbraco talking with James Suddart from The Cynical Developer

dev 5 Common Developer problems and how to overcome them

This post gives you a list of 5 common problems you might face as a developer and how you can overcome them.

umbraco How to find the Home page in Umbraco

This post shows you how to find the home page (root node) in Umbraco. It shows you how to do it in a View, and in a Controller.

umbraco Umbraco Related Links into C# Class Objects

This post gives you a handy little helper method to turn your related links property into a C# class object to make it easier to work with.

umbraco How to get the current logged in Umbraco user and restrict front end content

This post shows you how to get the current logged in Umbraco user and restrict content on the front end of the site.

tools Basic HTML5 Template Layout Example

This is just a quick post to give you some sample HTML5 basic markup. You can just copy the markup, paste it into your file and start writing the HTML.