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Speed up your uCommerce checkout pipeline

Speed is key when it comes to e-commerce. Regardless of which platform you use to sell online it has to be fast and no-where is this truer than the checkout processes. uCommerce is a great platform and it's Pipeline feature makes uCommerce hugely extensible however with great power

Periodically hit a url with Windows Scheduler

Sometimes you have a task that you want to run every x minutes i.e. updating order statuses or sending abandoned cart emails. There are a few ways you can do this but our preferred method at The Site Doctor is to setup a Powershell Task in Windows Task Scheduler

Stop windows lowering the music volume when a call starts

We've started using Sqwiggle to aid remote working which is awesome. The only issue is recently I've noticed that when someone starts a conversation or sends an instant message Spotify and Windows Media player reduced their volume and wouldn't come back up. Turns out

How to setup passive FTP on a Windows Azure virtual machine

This is more of a reminder for me than anything else. If you're looking for a great walkthrough on how to configure Passive FTP on a Windows Azure VM, check out the walkthrough from Ronald here -it got us up and running. The thing that takes the time

Prices including tax on uCommerce

Most of our retailers price point their products to include tax i.e. a shirt that costs you £100 would include a proportion of VAT that the retailer would have to pay (at the moment about £16.67). One frustration I've had for a while with uCommerce is

The ultimate urlReplacing character list for Umbraco

If you're not already familiar with the built in character replacing functionality for urls in Umbraco then I highly recommend you check out the umbracoSettings.config file's urlReplacing node section: urlReplacing: List of characters which will be replaced in generated urls. This ensures that urls does

Do you know where your company's skills are lacking?

We're recruiting again and to work out what type of recruit we would benefit from the most, we decided to try and assess our strengths and weaknesses. It was a really useful exercise and meant that we were quickly able to identify which areas we should increase capacity

Track Google Analytics and Google AdWords conversions on click with jQuery

Today we needed to track conversions in Google Analytic and Google AdWords when a user clicked a button. There are a fair few posts around with different ways to do this but as it's something we've needed to do before so I thought I'd

CSS frameworks and column class names -why I think they are wrong

Before starting the new uCommerce demo razor store, we had a chat through the options as far as CSS frameworks were concerned. The main consideration we had was that it had to be a framework that the community was familiar with as we weren't looking to explain the

New domain name scam

This email almost caught me out the other day: The client has been interested in the .com before but I couldn't recall whether it was something we had bought for them or not so I checked it out and it was actually free -so it's basically