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Tim Gaunt

Retrieve the customer's last address when logging into uCommerce

Probably one of the most common features of an ecommerce systems is to "retrieve my details" when logging in -after all that's why you create an account with the seller isn't it? Out of the box, uCommerce has XSLT to retrieve the customer'

Delete all UCommerce baskets older than x days

After my last UCommerce post on how to delete test orders and baskets from UCommerce, Søren suggested I extended the delete all baskets code to take into account when it was created. As my last code was relating to deleting test orders/baskets (and so would want to get rid

Deleting test orders and baskets from uCommerce

Although Søren has posted a helpful post on how to delete entire purchase orders from the database here, we needed something a little less “all or nothing” so put the below together. Delete a specific order id --Delete purchaseorders and associated data based on order id DECLARE @OrderNumber nvarchar(50)

Developer Pitfall: When to call it quits on a problem

We’ve all done it, you’ve run into a problem while developing which you bash at for a few hours and before you know it, you’ve lost the day, not got anywhere and feel completely frustrated. What’s more, is it’s usually something so screamingly obvious and/

Getting started with uCommerce

I thought seeing as uCommerce is now an actual product I would start to overview an install/configuration of uCommerce assuming no prior knowledge of uCommerce. Firstly, let me start of by saying that once you've got your head around uCommerce and some of it's complexities,

Using Linq and Extension Methods to chunk large data sets

Ever needed to take a large list and split it into smaller subsets of data for processing? Well this is the Extension Method for you. Tonight we had to split a small dataset (500 items) into even smaller sets of 10 so the provider’s web service wouldn’t timeout.

Automatically add a show and hide link to any object with jQuery

There are plenty of tutorials around that show you how to show or hide a div with jQuery, you can find a load on Google but I wanted something that was re-usable throughout our projects so I created the addShowHideLink jQuery plugin. We’ve been using it across a few

Helo command rejected: need fully-qualified hostname when sending emails

Simple tip this afternoon. You may have got the following error when sending emails through ASP.Net’s built in mail server before: From: postmaster@YourWebserversName [mailto:postmaster@YourWebserversName] Sent: 25 June 2010 13:22 To: sender@sendingdomainname.com Subject: Delivery Status Notification (Failure) This is an automatically generated Delivery

Set Umbraco Folder Permissions with Powershell

Update available: I've updated this script to make it more copy/past. You can read the better way to set Umbraco folder permissions with PowerShell here. If you're not configuring Umbraco through a web installer, you've had your installs in place for years and

Stop jQuery.hide() showing the elements on page load

This is a great little tip that Andy Higgs shared with me a couple of months ago while we were developing Crisis Cover. If you write jQuery that hides the div when the user has JavaScript enabled, you can avoid the divs all being shown while the page loads by