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I'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.
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.
umbraco How to protect media items in UmbracoThis post shows you how to protect media in Umbraco. It works on the idea that you can put the media you want to protect in a parent folder.
umbraco Simple Web API Helper for Umbraco and MVCThis post gives you the code to help you build an API url with the parameters and a quick way to call a simple get method and parse the results to the object you are expecting back from the API.
dev What is TDD? How to get started with Test Driven DevelopmentThis post gives you an introduction into Test Driven Development. It uses a simple, real world example to show you how to get started.
umbraco How to create a custom Html Helper Extension Method in MVC and UmbracoThis post shows you how you can create a custom Html Helper Extension Method for your own Umbraco and MVC projects.