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Tim Gaunt

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

Beware! Context.RewritePath does not end the current execution path

We've recently been working on an inherited project that's got some interesting "features", one of which is how they handle URL rewriting. There are a number of HTTPHandlers that can be plugged into your application or ISAPI filters to enable URL rewriting in IIS

How to: Remove all users from the ASP.Net Membership database by application name

A while ago I wrote about How to: Remove users from the ASP.Net membership database which showed you how to remove a single user from the ASP.Net membership database from SQL Management Studio. That's great when you're deleting one or two users but what

Calculating what an employee will cost you

As people are now looking to employ I thought it would be helpful to overview the general costs involved with employing someone in the UK and how you can factor that back to an hourly charge. Some Assumptions 1. As most of my readers are within the IT industry, I&

SQL Server: Warning: Fatal error 823 occurred at date / time Note the error and time, and contact your system administrator.

We were contacted the other day by a client with issues selecting data from one of their tables after a recent server crash (not running on our servers or a site that we were involved in developing). The issue was easy enough to recreate as you just needed to select

Download any Umbraco document type’s values as crosstab/Excel table

In a follow up to my post yesterday -How to download Umbraco content properties into a crosstab table this is the follow up SQL Script that makes it even easier to download any Umbraco document type into Excel. This SQL Script is fairly simple, basically what it does is it