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How to: Delete duplicate products from a category in uCommerce

I was looking into an issue with one of our sites that couldn't delete a product from a category in uCommerce today and noticed that there were a lot of duplicate product-category relationships in the table. Deleting them is fairly simple so I thought I'd share

Error when publishing Umbraco page - Object reference not set to an instance of an object

This is one of those irritating errors that you come across every now and again and can take hours to diagnose. If you've seen something like the error at the end of this post, then check that you don't have any document types which have an

How to price your products

I blogged a few years ago about how to price your time I thought I should blog about how to price a physical product. Recently, I've been involved in setting up a new company selling all sorts of Christmas decorations, artificial trees and more called Festive Sparkle. Part

Don’t dwell - get over it and move on

One thing that always amazes me in business is the tendency people have to dwell on things and then miss opportunities that are out there. If you spot an opportunity then weigh up the pros and cons of the opportunity, what it will cost and the expected outcome. If it

Developing with Umbraco and Git (or any other source control system)

I've had a couple of people ask me recently how we use source control (in our case Git but this should work with Mercurial) with Umbraco and within a team. This is more of a discussion post and I'm interested to learn more how you'

Delay sending an email until the next working day

I know there are a fair few people that have automatic delays on their email to avoid sending emails too quickly but for some time now I've wanted to restrict emails so they're only send during office hours -to avoid getting into email conversations on the

Add every country to uCommerce

Something I learnt the other day was that uCommerce uses the culture code you specify for a country to determine the two/three digit ISO code when sending the order to the payment gateway. This is fine if you know all the various countries -but I didn't so

Starting something new - Part 2: Designing a brand

Read Part 1: Naming the business here So you have a name, what next? For us, it was all about getting the company's look and feel right (the brand). Branding a company is not just a matter of it's logo and colour scheme, it's

How to query your uCommerce database with LINQPad

I've been a massive fan of LINQPad for a few years now. I use it as a scratch pad most days; especially when I need to get my head around a snippet of code without booting up Visual Studio. For those of you not familiar with LINQPad, it&

Starting something new - Part 1: Naming the business

I've been a little quiet recently as other than running The Site Doctor, we've embarked on a new venture and as we're starting a new business from scratch. I thought it might be interesting for some if I blogged about our journey which kicked