Some of our thoughts, tip and articles related to our real-world development experiences.
Saturday August 24, 2013
Here's a neat little trick to block search engines from indexing your entire web server contents.Wednesday June 26, 2013
Overriding or injecting code in the Application_Start event in Umbraco can be a little tricky. You have to inherit the Umbraco Application class and override the methods you need. Unless you need to override something specific in the Umbraco pipeline it should be sufficient just to let your startup code run immediately AFTER the Application_Start event.Friday June 21, 2013
If you're doing any serious development with Umbraco then chances are you'll need Visual Studio for the full developer experience. In this article we'll show you how you can use Visual Studio as a starting point to install Umbraco from scratch and be up and running in no time.Monday June 17, 2013
The default Canonical Domain Name rule in IIS doesn't work very well. The generated rule doesn't work across different sub domains for example.Monday June 17, 2013
Quite often you have multiple versions of your website; Development, Testing, Staging and Production. To prevent search engines from indexing the non-production versions of your web application you would enable username and password authentication right? This is the obvious thing to do…not only does it prevent search engines from indexing your development stuff but also prevents unauthorised access to stuff which is not live yet.Saturday June 1, 2013
So you have your Umbraco project nicely hooked up to a continuous integration or build server such as TeamCity. So how do you automate the content publishing so your users see the latest version everytime?