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Tim Gaunt

What’s Involved in Launching an E-commerce Website in 2025?

Launching an e-commerce website in 2025 offers exciting opportunities, but it also comes with an evolving list of moving parts. From platform selection to fulfilment and third-party integrations, getting from idea to order requires more than just a shopping cart. At TSD, we’ve partnered with brands across the UK,

Search every page in Umbraco for a string

As part of a rebrand, a customer had changed their email address in Umbraco and although it was instantly reflected on the website (yay for CMSs!), they wanted us to double check that the old email address had been completely removed. Although we can't remove it from the

Beyond Titles: Reimagining Introductions in Professional Meetings

In a recent workshop, I found myself in a room with the full C-suite of executives and their teams. As we went around the table for introductions, I noticed something that felt oddly outdated: "I'm John, the CFO." "I'm Sarah, the CMO."

An invalid parameter or option was specified for procedure 'sys.sp_change_users_login'.

Today, we encountered a new issue that we had not seen before. When trying to update a database's logins after restoring it from prod, the usual stored procedure we run (sys.sp_change_users_login) didn't seem to function as we would expect. EXEC sp_change_

The Ultimate AI-Powered Video Generation Guide: From Text to Talking Avatars in Minutes

Embarking on the journey of AI-driven video generation can feel like stepping into a sci-fi novel. But with the right tools and a sprinkle of guidance, you’ll be crafting compelling content faster than you can say “artificial intelligence.” Let’s face it—creating high-quality video content is a headache.

The Real Cost of Building and Running an Efficient Engineering Team

When businesses consider internalising their development efforts—whether through a self-managed offshore partner or by creating a dedicated internal team to replace an external software partner—it’s tempting to focus on the apparent cost savings of hiring a few skilled engineers. After all, the promise of reduced expenses and

MailChimp.Net.Core.MailChimpException: akamai_503

We hit an interesting error the other day that doesn't appear to be covered much on Google, so hopefully, this helps someone else. After sustained attacks on one of our busier sites, we started getting our direct MailChimp API requests rejected with a generic error: MailChimp.Net.Core.

Export all products, properties and categories from uCommerce

A while ago I posted about how to Export products from Ucommerce into a CSV type format. The database schema has changed slightly since so today I'm posting an updated version of the code for v9. I've also added a second script that outputs the categories

How to store a basket against a user in Ucommerce efficiently

TLDR; If you want to tie a basket to the logged in user, don't follow the Ucommerce documentation if you're using a platform with a Guid as the member ID as it's a performance nightmare, instead use our alternative approach. The Issue We recently

High database CPU usage while checking out on Ucommerce

We noticed the other day that a client's site was running really slowly and when calling `ExecuteBasketPipeline` or checking out was returning a mismatch in the number of affected rows. We initially thought the issue was caused by the basket being updated twice but actually it was caused