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Assume your software will outlive its end-of-life

We still run an Umbraco v4 site, on purpose. End-of-life is a date on the vendor's calendar, not a fact about your customer's business. Why the version you ship is the one worth designing for, and how to tell a managed risk from plain neglect.

Shipping Code Isn't the Same as Releasing Features

In software, everyone loves to say "We've shipped!" but what does that actually mean? Ask a developer, shipping usually means merging a pull request, deploying to production, or watching that CI/CD pipeline turn green. Ask a product manager and you'll get a different

Stop Prop Drilling in Blazor MAUI: When Provide Components Beat the Alternatives

Discover when to use Provide components in Blazor MAUI for cleaner state sharing. Learn the advantages, disadvantages, and how Provide compares to CascadingParameter and Fluxor for state management.

Why .NET Aspire is Revolutionising Cloud-Native Application Development and Why You Should Use It

In the rapidly evolving landscape of cloud-native development, Microsoft has introduced a game-changing framework that promises to simplify and streamline the development of distributed applications: .NET Aspire. This innovative platform is designed to address the complexities that developers face when building modern, scalable, and observable cloud applications. What

Seamless Wi-Fi: Creating On-Demand Passpoint Profiles and the Challenge of Frictionless Connectivity

Imagine downloading a mobile app that promises to connect you to Wi-Fi networks automatically, only to find yourself manually entering credentials at every hotspot. This common frustration highlights why Passpoint technology has become increasingly important. Passpoint (also known as Hotspot 2.0) allows devices to connect to trusted Wi-

Resolving Assembly Binding Errors After Sitefinity Upgrade

We recently upgraded one of our Sitefinity installations from version 14.4.8144 to 14.4.8146. While the upgrade itself was relatively straightforward, we encountered an unexpected issue when a team member tried to clone and run the project. The Problem When Josh attempted to run the freshly cloned

Beware Duplicate Custom View File Conflicts in Sitefinity

When working with Sitefinity CMS, custom view files for form elements can be a powerful way to tailor your user experience. However, we recently encountered an issue with duplicate custom view files that caused SiteSync to fail. This post shares our experience and provides guidance to help you avoid similar

MailChimp.Net.Core.MailChimpException: akamai_503

We hit an interesting error the other day that doesn't appear to be covered much on Google, so hopefully, this helps someone else. After sustained attacks on one of our busier sites, we started getting our direct MailChimp API requests rejected with a generic error: MailChimp.Net.Core.

High database CPU usage while checking out on Ucommerce

We noticed the other day that a client's site was running really slowly and when calling `ExecuteBasketPipeline` or checking out was returning a mismatch in the number of affected rows. We initially thought the issue was caused by the basket being updated twice but actually it was caused

Could not load file or assembly xxx or one of its dependencies

We hit the fairly common issue of not being able to resolve a dependency the other day and tried all the usual resolutions -checking that the version numbers across all projects match, check the values in the configs haven't corrupted during an install, clean and rebuild the solution,