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This post teaches you about the 4 stages of feedback, and uses an example of a code review. Once you have read this you will be able to identify these stages in your working life, and sometimes in your home life too.

This post shows you how to search by specific document types and fields in umbraco, using Examine.

This post shows you how to convert a SQL Compact Edition database to full SQL and speed up Umbraco

Listen to my podcast interview about Umbraco talking with James Suddart from The Cynical Developer

This post gives you a list of 5 common problems you might face as a developer and how you can overcome them.

This post shows you how to find the home page (root node) in Umbraco. It shows you how to do it in a View, and in a Controller.

This post gives you a handy little helper method to turn your related links property into a C# class object to make it easier to work with.

This post shows you how to get the current logged in Umbraco user and restrict content on the front end of the site.

This is just a quick post to give you some sample HTML5 basic markup. You can just copy the markup, paste it into your file and start writing the HTML.

I want to hear from other developers to find out if they see their job as a developer/programmer as just their job which they turn up for and go home, or whether they are extremely passionate about it, and it is part of who they are.

My struggle with rebloggers and my simple solution for the problem.

In this post I give you a simple template to start using for your own RSS XML feed. It's very simple and straight forward.