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How to show UTC time relative to the user's local time on a .NET website
This post gives you the code I found to help you get a user's country and culture code and display a UTC date and time relative to the user who is viewing in their browser. Read More
This is why you should never judge a book by its cover
Today I learned a valuable lesson about how you should never judge a book by its cover. Read More
How to use a custom local dev url without having to edit the hosts file
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. Read More
The day I hacked Troy Hunt's website to delete my data
I needed to remove my personal details from Troy Hunt's website. This post shows you why and how I did it. Read More
Free HTML5 and Bootstrap Template Websites
This post gives you a list of good websites to get your Free HTML5 and Bootstrap templates from. Read More
How to get the website domain address in Umbraco
This post shows you how to get the current umbraco website domain address including http(s):// in the simplest way possible. Read More
How to create a simple FAQs page in Umbraco using Archetype in 7 easy steps
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. Read More
How to protect media items in Umbraco
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. Read More
Simple Web API Helper for Umbraco and MVC
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. Read More
What is TDD? How to get started with Test Driven Development
This post gives you an introduction into Test Driven Development. It uses a simple, real world example to show you how to get started. Read More