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Tim Gaunt

Quick Pro Tip: Running low on disk space? Delete your hiberfil.sys

I freed up about 10GB of space on my C drive this afternoon by simply disabling Hibernation: Before After Step 1: Open Command Prompt as an Administrator Step 2: Type powercfg -h off and hit enter -if nothing else is output then you've done it right: Step 3:

Umbraco powered CheckBoxList or DropdownList nodes in uCommerce admin area

uCommerce is a great e-commerce engine for Umbraco and high on our list of options when evaluating new e-commerce projects at The Site Doctor. One thing that has always bugged me however is the lack of extensibility on the admin backend. This is something I've discussed with Søren

Quick pro tip - Open File in Sublime from Visual Studio

This is one of those really simple little gems that helps productivity ten-fold. Firstly, regardless of whether you're running a PC, Mac or Linux, if you've not already come across Sublime Text 2 you should go download it right now. There are a ton of amazing

How to generate customer purchase cohorts from uCommerce data

I've had a couple of people ask how they can create customer purchase cohorts from their uCommerce data since my last post so here's a quick script. Depending on how you've setup your uCommerce store, the customer ids might be different so instead of

How to generate the data needed for a cohort chart- cohort analysis Part 3

Sean Ronan pointed out on twitter that "what" the columns on www.quickcohort.com are which is a good point so I thought I would fill in the gaps a little. The data for a cohort is fairly simple and can be as granular as you decide but

How to read and interpret a cohort chart - cohort analysis Part 2

In my last post about Cohort analysis I briefly introduced what a cohort graph is, in this one I'm going to go into a little more detail about how you can use it. I'm planning on releasing some code so you can add it to your

Avoid Unrecognized attribute 'xmlns:xdt' configuration error

If you've been using web.config transformations or a nuget package with transformations in at all you'll no doubt have come across the runtime configuration error of "Unrecognized attribute 'xmlns:xdt'. Note that attribute names are case-sensitive" pointing at the start of

There's never a right time

I'm about to go on holiday (yay me!), but have you ever worried beforehand because there's not enough time to complete everything you need to get done before you go? Lets face it:- There's rarely enough time to do everything in the average

Start-up's golden triangle of customer loyalty - cohort analysis Part 1

If you're from a financial or medical background you'll probably already be familiar with cohort analysis but more recently it's become a very popular way of measuring customer loyalty among your consumers. I've been playing with it with our customers for a

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