What is the Microsoft Botframework and, more importantly, what is LUIS?
This posts tells you about the Microsoft Botframework, and focuses mainly on the star of the show LUIS. Read More
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. Read More
How to set up GA Event Tracking in 3 easy steps
This post makes setting up Event Tracking with GA really easy. It's definitely worth doing on your site. Read More
How to create a Contact Form in Umbraco using MVC and C#
This post is to accompany the YouTube video tutorial I created. I will share the code I wrote for each section in the video. Read More
What does the term dogfooding mean?
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. Read More
How to create and use custom configuration sections in ASP.NET
This post will show you how to create a custom config section in your .NET application and use it in your code. Read More
Developers are creative too
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. Read More
7 useful tips for creating a successful blog
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. Read More
How to scrape meta data from a url using HtmlAgilityPack in C#
This post gives you the code create a meta data scraper so you can get information from a url, using HtmlAgilityPack in C#. Read More
How to format the pre html tag in Umbraco for code blocks
A simple approach to formatting your pre tags Read More