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This post explains to you what .NET Core is, what it is used for and tells you whether you need to use it or not.

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.

My struggle with rebloggers and my simple solution for the problem.

In this post I will aim to give you the best advice I can, in order to help you achieve your goal of becoming a professional developer.

In this video you will see how to change the form to submit using AJAX. I recorded this video live for my livecoding channel. The code I wrote for this tutorial is further down this post.

There are certain terms in the software industry which you may hear for the first time and immediately understand their meaning. For instance, backdoor; a hidden method of gaining access to a computer system. The term dogfooding is not an obvious one. This post explains what dogfooding is and gives you examples of which companies are doing it.

I used to think I wasn't a creative person, I just have a logical thinking brain and not a creative one. I used to think the creative types of people are the graphic designers or the front end developers who make fancy animations.

This post gives you the code create a meta data scraper so you can get information from a url, using HtmlAgilityPack in C#.

This post shows you how to create a simple keep alive for a .NET website so people can stay logged in whilst the page is open, instead of it timing out after 20 minutes.

One thing that really annoys me is when someone asks the guest a question they nearly always reply back with 'wow that's a great question' or 'that's a really good question.'