Programming
Most recent blogs in the Programming category
25Jun2014
Decoupling Umbraco from your front-end website
In certain high-risk situations it is necessary to not operate your site on a live database. Here's a way to get a lot of the good stuff from Umbraco 7 and still satisfy the no-database requirement!
18Jun2014
How to setup Google DoubleClick for Publishers
How to get started with Google DoubleClick for Publishers (DFP)... from a web developer's point of view.
17May2014
What kills a website; literally
Time heals some wounds, though not all are forgotten. Step back five years and as web developers, we had to deal with different sorts of problems, which ultimately only made us stronger.
30Apr2014
Alternate Passions - Game Development
Wiliam has many talented and passionate people working to build top quality sites each and every day. But for many of us websites are not the only things that we are passionate about. My interest lies in game development and this weekend just past I participated in a global game development competition called Ludum Dare.
10Mar2015
3Feb2015
The Importance of Code Reviews
It’s been said that peer code reviews are the single biggest thing you can do to improve your code. But how do you do it?
29Jan2015
Browser Link feature slows down my VS2013
Is your debugging slow? Maybe its the browser link feature slowing you down.
16Jan2015
Standards and Conventions: Why bother?
Let's talk about what they are, how they come into being and why they're important, shall we?
5Dec2014
Some more C# 6.0 changes
This blog covers a few new upcoming features of C# 6.0 and I give a very brief opinion on their usefulness in the language.
8Oct2014
Upcoming C# 6.0 language features that I really don't like
Having used C# professionally for about 9 years now I have seen many iterations of the language, starting at the C# 1.1 days. I've seen it mature over the years to include some quite powerful features which makes day to day tasks just that much easier, and that's a great thing. But something happens when a product such as C# matures; with each version released the backlog of critical/important features diminishes and the product team starts to wonder "what else can we add next time?".
21Aug2014
Sensible MVC project guidelines
Often when developers start working on brand new projects they are overwhelmed with the decisions laid out in front of them in terms of where things go, what they are called, what things should do, etc. This almost always leads to people making the wrong decisions and crapping all over what could be a beautifully structured simple and straight forward project layout.
24Jun2014
Application logging
All applications require logging to some degree, whether that is simply logging to the standard output stream or asynchronously logging a fixed size rolling log file to disk using enterprise logging tools.
17Jun2014
17Jun2014
Don’t forget about the small things
Once the dust has settled on your website build, tired eyes may overlook the simpler things.
16May2014
Essential plugin alternatives for Umbraco 7
All is not lost as traditional plugins play catch-up with Umbraco 7.
16May2014
Your website code needs to be faster
There’s many a reason why your website should load fast, however some brief facts show that it’s no surprise that the human attention span is becoming shorter and shorter as technology evolves.
13Jan2014
'WebForm_DoPostBackWithOptions' is undefined in IE11
IE11 doesn't recognise the user agent string though you will need to do some digging to get the fix; good thing I've already done that digging.
22Oct2013
The CMS is not the be-all, end-all
You can't build a website without a CMS right? Wrong. And your website might be all the better for it.
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