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If you have a favourite site that you like to search on, or want to use a different search engine this tool will help you set up quick searching on them using Google Chrome.

This post gives you a step by step guide on how to install Umbraco on your local machine using Visual Studio, NuGet, IIS and SQL Server.

In Umbraco, you may want to perform certain actions when a content item or member is being saved or created. This post shows you how to do that. This is relevant for Umbraco projects that use MVC.

Over the years, I have had many interactions with recruitment agents. In fact, I got my last 2 programming jobs thanks to the help of recruitment agents. This post shares with you what I have learned about recruiters, what to look out for and how you can get the best from them.

In this post, I share 10 of my favourite free tools with you so you can get the benefit of them too.

In this post I share some of the lessons I've learned in my career when delivering software.

This is one of the most important things I've learned in my whole career. It really does have the power to change your life.

The sound of people typing drives me crazy.

This post shows you how to set up and use bundling and minification in your MVC website. There are specific instructions on how set it up for Umbraco websites too.

This post will help you if you want to get the preview image for a YouTube video. You may want to you this if you want to trigger the video to launch in a pop up window, or you want to link to the video.

I must admit, in the past when I just want some code to run, but it's not critical if it fails, I have written a try catch block which looks like this.

It drives me crazy when I see code where someone is checking a boolean to see if it is true or not and they write it like this.