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This post shows you how you can get to the IPublishedContent item from a Content Pick Macro Parameter in Umbraco. It is a guest post by Nisreen Almasri from Sweden.
umbraco Diary of my visit to the Umbraco UK Festival 2017This blog post will act as a diary for my experiences throughout the 2 day Umbraco UK Festival in London on 2nd and 3rd November 2017.
git How to solve the git error fatal: unable to access '\/.config/git/configThis post shows you how to solve the git error fatal: unable to access '\/.config/git/config
dev An open letter to people who write open lettersI've seen lots of open letters on the internet lately, so this letter is addressed to all of those people who write open letters.
umbraco How to render the grid html in UmbracoThis is a quick post to give you the code for rendering the Grid Html in Umbraco.
dotnet How to show UTC time relative to the user's local time on a .NET websiteThis post gives you the code I found to help you get a user's country and culture code and display a UTC date and time relative to the user who is viewing in their browser.
dev This is why you should never judge a book by its coverToday I learned a valuable lesson about how you should never judge a book by its cover.
dev How to use a custom local dev url without having to edit the hosts fileHere is a really useful tip for all web developers. It shows you how you use custom urls for your local dev machine websites without having to edit the hosts file.
sql The day I hacked Troy Hunt's website to delete my dataI needed to remove my personal details from Troy Hunt's website. This post shows you why and how I did it.
umbraco How to get the website domain address in UmbracoThis post shows you how to get the current umbraco website domain address including http(s):// in the simplest way possible.
tools Free HTML5 and Bootstrap Template WebsitesThis post gives you a list of good websites to get your Free HTML5 and Bootstrap templates from.
umbraco How to create a simple FAQs page in Umbraco using Archetype in 7 easy stepsIronically, this question gets asked a lot, so I thought I would show you how simple and easy it is to create an FAQs page in Umbraco using the Archetype package, in 7 easy steps.