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Tim Gaunt

How to hide a tree node in uCommerce or Umbraco

Have you ever needed to hide a node in the Umbraco or uCommerce trees? It's actually very easy, we needed to hide the Orders, Marketing and Analytics nodes of a new uCommerce install we were working on. All you need to do is set the "treeInitialize"

uCommerce is now free and why it's great news

Those of you who were lucky enough to make it to CodeGarden 11 (or have been following the #CG11 hash tag) will no doubt already know that uCommerce Starter Edition is now free. Why this is good news For quite some time we've been lacking a good all-round

Why we came up with Born in the Barn

Some of you may have already come across our new recruitment drive -www.borninthebarn.co.uk but I thought I would write a few blog posts about the thinking behind the website. This post concentrates largely on the business reasons behind it, I'll post separately about our findings

Fix Visual Studio's crappy HTML formatting and automatic addition of id when pasting

Today I discovered two settings in Visual Studio that are about to transform my life (yes I realise that by just writing that I need to get out more.). Anyway, the first stops Visual Studio formatting you code like this: And transforms it into this: To sort: Open Visual Studio,

Taking UCommerce emails to the next level and include the order id in the subject, multiple recipients and Google click tracking

One of the things that I've felt has always been a little lacking in uCommerce was their email system, it's a great idea and nicely implemented but it was rather inflexible in earlier version -you couldn't send "other" emails easily etc. Most

Treat all prospects with respect and courtesy

Don't judge a book by it's cover -we've all heard that 101 times before but I can't stress how important this mantra is in business. As I suspect you do, before we meet with a new client/prospect, we perform a little

Output the currency symbol in uCommerce

One thing that's always bugged me about uCommerce is the way the prices are displayed (using the not so inviting ISO codes), this is a simple switch statement to output the (prettier) HTML symbol instead. <xsl:choose> <xsl:when test="@currency = 'GBP'

Remove uCommerce Product Definition Field in SQL

Sometimes you need to remove a product definition field from uCommerce e.g. one created in a test environment. Although you can just right click and click "delete" within the administration area, this sometimes doesn't work e.g. when it's a pre-release so this

Recurring payment provider options for a UK start-up

As many of you will know, we're currently in the process of launching a new online service -Crisis Cover which is a digital safe for your business' digital assets. A week before the launch we ran into a slight hiccup in regards our payment gateway. The problem