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dev 5 Common Developer problems and how to overcome themThis 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 UmbracoThis 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 ObjectsThis 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 contentThis post shows you how to get the current logged in Umbraco user and restrict content on the front end of the site.
dev Developer Question - Passion or Profession?I want to hear from other developers to find out if they see their job as a developer/programmer as just their job which they turn up for and go home, or whether they are extremely passionate about it, and it is part of who they are.
dev Retrieving your audience from the grips of RebloggersMy struggle with rebloggers and my simple solution for the problem.
umbraco Simple Umbraco RSS XML Feed ExampleIn this post I give you a simple template to start using for your own RSS XML feed. It's very simple and straight forward.
umbraco How to start using Dependency Injection in MVC and UmbracoThis post has the code and a video you need to help you start using Dependency Injection in MVC and Umbraco
dev How to get a job as a Professional DeveloperIn this post I will aim to give you the best advice I can, in order to help you achieve your goal of becoming a professional developer.
umbraco What is so good about Umbraco?In this video I show you what I love about Umbraco. I show you how easy it is to create and edit content for my blog.
dev How to set up GA Event Tracking in 3 easy stepsThis post makes setting up Event Tracking with GA really easy. It's definitely worth doing on your site.