Presenting a new Umbraco data type: Embedded Content

  Are you looking for a way to create content on a node that uses the build-in Umbraco data types, yet let’s the content editor decide how many fields he actually needs? Do you want your co…

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Developing a plugin framework in ASP.NET MVC with medium trust

I’ve recently spent quite a lot of time researching and prototyping different ways to create a plugin engine in ASP.NET MVC3 and primarily finding a nice way to load plugins (DLLs) in from outside of…

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A quick UI guide to using Umbraco’s new repository format: Mercurial

If you haven’t read the news, Umbraco is moving it’s repository format from TFS to Mercurial today! The Umbraco post lists quite a few links to start learning about Mercurial and how it works and I de…

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MVC Attributes - ReadOnly vs Editable vs Bind & the DefaultModelBinder

I’ve been learning quite a lot about the DefaultModelBInder and it’s internal behaviour because of the complexities involved with some of the model binding in Umbraco v5 and wanted to point out the be…

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MVC Controllers as plugins with MEF and Autofac

Disclaimer This blog posts talks about Umbraco v5 (Jupiter), however since the state of the codebase is in it’s infancy, the details about Umbraco v5 in this article may not be accurate once Umbraco…

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Vertically centring multi-line text with CSS

This post was imported from FARMCode.org which has been discontinued. These posts now exist here as an archive. They may contain broken links and images.So you have a fixed height container, and you w…

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uComponents 2.0 beta out soon

It’s been a while since I’ve had the time to write a blog post and this is far overdue. We very quietly released uComponents v2.0 Preview on Oct 16th (which you can find here: http://ucomponents.codep…

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Mixing percentage and pixel dimensions in CSS

This post was imported from FARMCode.org which has been discontinued. These posts now exist here as an archive. They may contain broken links and images.Okay, so there is no trick to actually compute…

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Importing SVN to Mercurial with complex SVN repository

This post was imported from FARMCode.org which has been discontinued. These posts now exist here as an archive. They may contain broken links and images.Here @ TheFARM, we’ve been moving across to Mer…

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Examine output indexing

This post was imported from FARMCode.org which has been discontinued. These posts now exist here as an archive. They may contain broken links and images.Last week Pete Gregory (@pgregorynz) and I were…

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