Basic mission; code not my own. Create an advert type; consisting of URL and Image. Additional requirement created setting the type of advert (using uComponents) An AdvertContainer (Doc Type) With two ‘types’ of advert (i.e. 3rdparty/mpu) ThirdParty contains JS (no image/URL) MPU contains Image/URL var nodes = GetMultiNodeSelection(1101, “adverts”); Foists off into some god awful … read on
Back in MVC2 days I wrote a post on setting up a project with lowercase urls / redirecting and a workaround for IIS6. Luckily these days we have MVC4 which is a tad friendlier… to a degree. In the Route collection registration area (Most likely in App_Start lest you’ve moved it) you can now simply … read on
Big old pain in the arse when you get a runtime error from a view, more so if its then in the build server; Simple solution though; pop open your UI/Web project (csproj) file in an editor of your choice. Check if it already contains an <MvcBuildViews>false</MvcBuildViews> tag (if it has set it to true) … read on
A common usage of the self-referencing joins is the use of 1 table for regions and subregions; its also the laziest example that comes to mind. Entity using System.Collections.Generic; using Domain.Base; public class Region : DomainObject<int, Region> { private IList<Region> _subRegion = new List<Region>(); public virtual string Name { get; set; } public virtual IList<Region> … read on
In order to make user of IContentService outside of Umbraco Controllers/Views/etc you’re going to need to expose it. Much in the same way you’d setup NHibernate to create a session factory on application start we grab IContentService and make it accessible. In this case via UmbracoApplication.UmbContentService UmbracoApplication.cs namespace XXX.UI { using System.Web.Http; using System.Web.Mvc; using … read on
Simple way to export your customers from Magento with their address. In the ADMIN on the menu select System -> Import/Export -> Dataflow Profiles. Select customer on the dropdown then go to the run profile tab and click go. It’ll save it on your server in the /var/exports/ folder. By default this will come out … read on
Bored of forgetting this one; This will open up port 80 on most peoples machines; other things to remember are the default setting on Skype will also use 80. sc stop IISADMIN sc stop W3SVC iisreset /stop sc stop MsDepSvc
Bit of a code dump but what the hey it will have to do.
In wordpress we have a wonderful set of functions that takes your title and converts it to a URL friendly version in the slug or permalink area. This also handles foreign characters converting them to their standard ascii equivalent.
Note* This will only really be different for Windows/Linux users where font-aliasing isn’t a standard feature (like the mac); but seeing Windows is 95% of the market it’s worth it. This is the standard font aliasing This is the faux-font aliasing using text shadow (using RGBA) text-shadow: 0px 0px 1px rgba(0,0,0,0); This is the … read on
I came across an issue a few years back that I was supposed to post about there and then; what the hey no buggers bothered to fix it. Basically PHP – MCrypt is great, it handles lots of nice encryption algorithms very simply and provides just the right amount of abstraction to the user to … read on