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There are certain terms in the software industry which you may hear for the first time and immediately understand their meaning. For instance, backdoor; a hidden method of gaining access to a computer system. The term dogfooding is not an obvious one. This post explains what dogfooding is and gives you examples of which companies are doing it.

This post will show you how to create a custom config section in your .NET application and use it in your code.

I used to think I wasn't a creative person, I just have a logical thinking brain and not a creative one. I used to think the creative types of people are the graphic designers or the front end developers who make fancy animations.

In this post I'm going to share with you what I have learned from my first year of blogging, and how I managed to get over 116,000 visits to my site in the first year.

This post gives you the code create a meta data scraper so you can get information from a url, using HtmlAgilityPack in C#.

A simple approach to formatting your pre tags

This post shows you how you can add a class to your umbraco project which automatically resizes any new images in Umbraco.

ScreenToGif allows you to record a portion of your screen and save it as an animated gif. It also works with your webcam if you want.

This post shows you how to create a simple keep alive for a .NET website so people can stay logged in whilst the page is open, instead of it timing out after 20 minutes.

This post gives you simple instructions to help you reset the Umbraco admin password.

This post gives you the basic code to loop through the pages in your site and populate the navigation model. It also gives you the code to add it to and call it from the cache.

Caching is important because it can speed up your website or application. Here is a simple example for you to take away and re-use: