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Tim Gaunt

Umbraco developers - remember to disable the umbDebug settings when you go live

Recently I've noticed a growing number of Umbraco developers forgetting to disable the Umbraco debug settings before going live. We all fall foul of this from time to time but it is a security loophole that you can patch incredibly easily. If you're not familiar with

Think about your users when writing your content

Ignoring the aspects of design, SEO duplicate content, underlying code and tone of language, as a content editor you really should give consideration to your user and what they're looking for. I generally steer clear of critiquing -or even commenting on work that isn't our own

Estimating the real value of source code

If you run a software development company of virtually any size, you've no doubt been asked/bullied at some point for the source code; sometimes it's even stipulated as a requirement of the contract. At The Site Doctor we don't tend to quibble over

Nuget server on IIS6 returns 404 when downloading package after upgrade

We updated our nuget server today and ran into a problem where regardless of package selected or whether it's through the nuget package manager or the nuget package explorer, the server returns 404 (File Not Found). What was odd about this was that the packages exist and the

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