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Font Awesome gives you access to hundreds of icons, and allows you to stack them on top of eachother to create different icons. In this code example you will see I stacked the twitter icon on top of a circle and did the same for the other links.
dev jQuery copy values from one set of textboxes to anotherIf you ever wanted a simple bit of jQuery to copy values from one set of texboxes, to another set of texboxes, this is the post for you. This is useful for copying billing address details over to the shipping address. I looked everywhere for a post like this to give me the answer, so now that I solved it myself, I created the post for others who are looking for the same answer.
dotnet Sorting a list into random order using linqEvery now and again, there is a need to produce a list in a random order. I've found a very reliable way to do this using linq and the Guid class.
dotnet List ForEach MethodThe .ForEach() It is very handy for shortening your code. Lets say you want to write a method which returns a list of MailAdress objects.
umbraco Umbraco Alternate Template Feature (bug)There is an annoying feature in Umbraco which, when not wanted, seems like a bug. If you want to view a page with a different template, you can enter the url/templateAliasName
dotnet Null-coalescing OperatorShorter code for using the value of a nullable object or another value if not.
umbraco Allow any markup in the TinyMCE editorIf, like me, you find it very annoying that Umbraco seems to stop you from entering whatever markup you want to put in the editor, then this post should help you.