How to change HttpRequest.IsSecureConnection
This is an old problem that is solved in dozens of different ways. Typically in an ASP.Net Framework site when you need to check if the request is running in HTTPS you would do something like…
Spatial Search with Examine and Lucene
I was asked about how to do Spatial search with Examine recently which sparked my interest on how that should be done so here’s how it goes…Examine’s default implementation is Lucene so by default…
Searching with IPublishedContentQuery in Umbraco
I recently realized that I don’t think Umbraco’s APIs on IPublishedContentQuery are documented so hopefully this post may inspire some docs to be written or at least guide some folks on some…
Filtering fields dynamically with Examine
The index fields created by Umbraco in Examine by default can lead to quite a substantial amount of fields. This is primarily due in part by how Umbraco handles variant/culture data because it will…
Writing a DocFx markdown plugin
What is DocFx? It’s a static site generator mainly used for creating API documentation for your code. But it can be used for any static sites. We use this for the Lucene.Net project’s website and…
Controller Scoped Model Binding in ASP.NET Core
Want to avoid [FromBody] attributes everywhere? Don’t want to use [ApiController] strict conventions? Don’t want to apply IInputFormatter’s globally?…
Examine and Azure Blob Storage
Quite some time ago - probably close to 2 years - I created an alpha version of an extension library to Examine to allow storing Lucene indexes in Blob Storage called Examine.AzureDirectory. This idea…
Web Application projects with Umbraco Cloud
How can I use Web Application projects with Umbraco Cloud?…
How I upgraded my site to Umbraco 8 on Umbraco Cloud
A short guide to upgrading an Umbraco v7 site to a v8 site with Umbraco Cloud…
Finding success in OSS
I’ve been working in open source for quite some time and wanted to share some of my experiences in regards to managing OSS projects and communities. I’ve been employed by Umbraco, an open source .Net…