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The term "Clean Code" could be confusing for beginners. What does it mean? You clean the car, you clean your bedroom, how do you clean your code?

If you use Umbraco and you create forms using MVC and razor, perhaps a contact form, you might want to populate a dropdownlist with data controlled by the Umbraco backoffice. This post shows you how to do that.

This post gives you step by step instructions for how to deploy an ASP.NET website. In the video I'm using an Umbraco site as an example, but it applies to any ASP.NET website. If you are unsure of any of the steps then watch the video.

In this post I share 6 ways which you can make money from your blog.

This post shows you how you can add the meta tags which are required for search engines and sharing on facebook and twitter.

This post shows you how you can get a free HTTPS (SSL) certificate for your website

This post teaches you about the 4 stages of feedback, and uses an example of a code review. Once you have read this you will be able to identify these stages in your working life, and sometimes in your home life too.

This post shows you how to search by specific document types and fields in umbraco, using Examine.

This post shows you how to convert a SQL Compact Edition database to full SQL and speed up Umbraco

Listen to my podcast interview about Umbraco talking with James Suddart from The Cynical Developer

This post gives you a list of 5 common problems you might face as a developer and how you can overcome them.

This post shows you how to find the home page (root node) in Umbraco. It shows you how to do it in a View, and in a Controller.