http://equatorlive.com/blogs/dotnetdave Technology blogging from David Conlisk Fri, 21 Mar 2008 11:25:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This is one that maybe could help some other developers that are new to Umbraco, and more specifically to XSLT. On our latest project we had our builder getting to grips with Umbraco and adding the html build to the existing XSLT macros. However, despite the fact that Umbraco does ... http://equatorlive.com/blogs/dotnetdave/tech/layout-issue-with-umbraco-macro/ I see that Niels is going to be posting some tips 'n tricks about Umbraco over the next 24 days. The entries for the first and second of December are excellent - if you're new to Umbraco than check the "Resources and where to find help" blog entry for the ... http://equatorlive.com/blogs/dotnetdave/tech/the-24-days-of-umbraco-christmas-bonanza/ I've just been working on a quick way to allow a client to view their email subscriptions from their site. They request the correct page which reads the database table, creates a csv file, then emails it as an attachment. Fine - worked first time. Just need to add the ... http://equatorlive.com/blogs/dotnetdave/tech/bizarre-bug-of-the-week-sylk-file/ If this wasn't a work-related blog I'd be swearing my head off. Went into Glasgow city centre on Sunday (yeah, I know, I won't be making that mistake again in a hurry) to get a couple of things and what? It's suddenly bloody Christmas? Christmas songs in all the shops, ... http://equatorlive.com/blogs/dotnetdave/glasgow/christmas-lights-on-already-what-a-nightmare/ Full transcript of a conversation overheard at the till at the BP garage in Ibrox last Sunday morning: Attendant: "Is that you pal?" Customer: "Aye" Absolutely classic Glasgow. (Translation: Attendant: "Would you like anything else with that, sir?" Customer: "No thank you, my good man. That will be all.") http://equatorlive.com/blogs/dotnetdave/glasgow/is-that-you-pal/ I know there is plenty of activity in the area of 'my favourite CMS' in the blogosphere, but I just thought I'd add my tuppence worth after completing my first Umbraco site. It's a pretty pure site with only a single .NET user control, everything else being 100% Umbraco. Here ... http://equatorlive.com/blogs/dotnetdave/tech/thoughts-on-umbraco-after-getting-my-first-site-live/ I wrote a post a few weeks back about a .NET tool which allows you to search and replace text type fields in a SQL database - a non-trivial problem. This morning I needed to perform something similar using Excel. Data from the client included tags like [HTML-BR] in the ... http://equatorlive.com/blogs/dotnetdave/tech/excel-search-and-replace-error-formula-is-too-long/ On Friday last I was having the following problem with my first attempt at an Umbraco-driven website. I wanted to add a new boolean property to a set of content nodes (i.e. type true/false in Umbraco), and use this property to change the behaviour in an XSLT file according to ... http://equatorlive.com/blogs/dotnetdave/tech/umbraco-content-not-updating-correctly/ This morning I've been working on moving my local Umbraco installation onto one of our servers. I'm doing this to get my Umbraco work included in the nightly backups, and also to allow access to the sites I'm working on to content managers, css builders and, eventually, clients. I copied my ... http://equatorlive.com/blogs/dotnetdave/tech/umbraco-access-to-the-path-to-data-umbraco-config-is-denied/ Umbraco has so far proved itself to be an excellent content management system, very powerful and extensible. But what if I want to do some external jiggery-pokery like saving contact details to an external database? Well, it's simple. Umbraco allows you to take your .NET user controls and wrap them ... http://equatorlive.com/blogs/dotnetdave/tech/using-net-web-user-controls-with-umbraco/