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Thoughts about Umbraco as a modular CMS

Umbraco is the friendly CMS. At least when you are a developer or an editor. It's just one of those things that grow on you when you get into the mindset of using the ultra flexible framework that it is. Still, once in a while, a new user com...

Setting up membership in Umbraco

I played around with the membership features of Umbraco tonight, and I thought I would share my findings. Mostly because it is just incredibly easy to do without even compiling any code. Just pure templates and a single entry in the web.confi...

A bit of stats for the year 2008

As many others, i think it is fun to look at the stats for my blog. So here is a little info from Google Analytics: Most visited ...

Umbraco gets an evangelist

  I just received the news form CGUS that Douglas Robar has has joined the Umbraco company as an evangelist. This is great news and a positive recognition of the huge effort that Doug has put into the forum and the community, which ha...

Time for new challenges

After two good years at my current position at Up-Site, it is time to try something new. So from September 1st it is on to new things. What those things will be is not clear yet, but I hope it will include lots of learning experiences, as I am eag...

Just a tiny XSLT tip

I just discovered this little tip that is quite handy (and obvious, if you allready know it). Imagine you have som xml like this:   <message> Thank god it is friday <from>Tony</from> </message> &n...

Umbraco forum has full text RSS again - WUHUU

I don't know if you are as slow as I am, or even if this has been out there for a long time, but I just discovered that the Umbraco forum now again has body text in the RSS feed. This is really nice, as the other feed just kind of sucked... ...

SPOT 08: Hidden gems

For those of you who don't know what the SPOT festival is about, I recommend taking a look at the website. It's a two day festival in the middle of Aarhus, filled wi...

Codegarden 08: Hidden gems

This is just an ultra short writeup of some of the hidden gems presented at one of the Open Space sessions at codegarden. You can now get the image source directly in the template: <img src='<umbraco:Item field="umbracoFile" nodeid="1072" ...

Certification logos in place

Today I completed the Umbraco certification test, so I thought this would be a good time to add a little "Certifications" box in my sidebar. So now I'm an MCP and an UCP(?). Gotta get me a new businesscard as well....

Wuhuu - Codegarden 2008 is here

I just signed up for the 2008 version of Codegarden. I really like the look of the program that contains both planned speakers as well as the Open Space format.So I'll see you there? Maybe swing by the Facebook Umbraco group and join the event and...

Converting links to popups using javascript

I was asked today how I would go about looping through an html page and attach an onclick event for all links with a certain class. So I decided to make an example and po...

Asus ACPI drivers and Intel PROSet/Wireless

This is just a note for myself and anyone who might stumble upon this, needing to make the Asus ATK0100 utility work with Intel PROSet/Wireless drivers. Basically, I've just tried alle the differen ATK0100 versions I could get my hands on, and fi...

Umbraco Mediapicker Firefox Bugfix

This is mostly a little reminder post for myself on how to solve this issue.The problem is when using more than one mediapicker/contentpicker on a document type, then the iframe with the treepicker will be 0px wide, rendering the box useless.What ...

Protect e-mail links in Umbraco V3

A while back, I got this little httpmodule for protecting emails from being harvested by spam robots. It was written in .Net 1.1, so i just converted it to 2.0 and put it in a zip file. Get the source (CodeArchitects.SafeMailLink_source.zip...

Updated CPalm Multiple Page Picker for V3 + bugfix

Inspired by this post on th umbraco forum (and the fact that I needed it) i downloaded the source for Christian Palms excellent Multiple Page Picker Via Source, and fixed it for V3 RC2 the way that Niels had so excellently described how to d...

Umbraco eCommerce has found a home

At Codegarden, we decided to try and collect the efforts and interrest that is invested in the eCom extension in one place. The point of it all is to create a couple of plug'n'play packages for getting started with ecommerce on an umbraco pla...

Codegarden Session: E-commerce Direction

Here on day 2 of Codegarden, all sessions are created in what they call "Open Space" which is a forum where everyone can suggest a session that they want to hold, or they want to listen to.Gert Abildskov suggested an E-commerce session to discuss ...

Codegarden Session: Custom Datatypes

Version 3 ships with a new datatype that functions as a Usercontrol Wrapper. This means that you dont actually have to think about saving the values to the Umbraco DB.So when is this usefull?Actually this makes it possible to apply security on doc...

Umbraco Codegarden: Day 1

I'm at the Umbraco Codegarden event in London for two days, and I thought I'd do a bit of light blogging for those of you who are not here.Niels Hartvigs Keynote Niels started out with a bit of general info about how Umbraco is doing, and all in a...

Tracking all outgoing links with Google Analytics

I wanted to try and find a way to track all of the outgoing links on my blog, without haven to modify the html of the link. What I found was that using javascript listeners would probably be the best solution. Actually this technique can be u...

Using XSLT search with multiple dropdowns

I've been modifying Douglas Robar's Umbraco XSLT search for a project where I need to filter a bunch of pages using some multiple dropdown lists. This is just a short description of how I've done it. The scenario I have a bunch of nodes th...

5 things you may not know about me

Since this is a rather international phenomenon, I'll do this post i english.I was tagged by Per Ploug Hansen so here are a few thing you may not know about me: I once thought I was going to be a famous singer/songwriter. I spent about 5 years p...