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I am so honoured to be made an Umbraco MVP. This award was given to me for my contributions to the Umbraco Community. It is the highlight of my career as a Web Developer and came completely out of the blue when I received the good news, with an invitation to collect the award at CodeGarden in May.
dev What is Visual Studio Live Share and how do you use it?This post shows you how to get set up to start using Visual Studio Live Share for remote pair programming.
git How to keep your fork up to date with the master repository in GitHubThis post gives you the commands you will need to keep your fork up to date with the master repository in GitHub.
dev How I doubled the traffic to my website in 4 simple stepsIn the space of 2 months, I doubled the traffic on my website, and the increase was all Organic traffic. In this post I will share the steps I took to double the traffic to my website, so you can apply the same steps.
umbraco How to upgrade Umbraco safelyI have upgraded quite a few Umbraco sites recently and I thought I would share my experience and strategy with you to help you do your upgrades as safely as possible.
umbraco Umbraco - The Friendliest CommunityThis post gives you an idea of what the Umbraco community is like and why I think it is the best tech community.
dotnet How to upload multiple files at once in an MVC formThis post will help you if you need to upload multiple files at once in an MVC form. The examples are for an umbraco website, but the principles are the same.
dotnet How to force a .NET website to use TLS 1.2This post shows you how you can force your .NET website to run using TLS 1.2
dotnet How to fix the MVC Textbox date time format issueThis post shows you how you can remove the time off the end of a date value when rendering it in an MVC TextBoxFor.
dotnet·umbraco How to create url rewrite rules for ASP.NET, MVC and Umbraco in web.configThis post is a reference to show you how to set up rewrite rules in your web.config file.
dev How to copy SQL Server data to Elasticsearch using LogStashHow to copy SQL Server data to Elasticsearch using LogStash
umbraco How to solve the GitHub error fatal: HttpRequestException encounteredGitHub has been upgraded from using TLS 1.0 to TLS 1.2 and it has caused issues for people. This post should help you solve this issue.