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  • Useful resources for frontend Developers

    26 September 2011

    A selection of scripts and techniques to make your front end development easier

  • Portfolio sites updated – check them out!

    26 April 2011

    I’ve just added another 11 sites i’ve worked upon or been involved in – you can see them in the portfolio. Covers technologies such as PHP, Asp.net, Umbraco, Kentico and more… © admin for Simon Steed's Blog About Stuff!, 2011. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: Feed enhanced by Better [...]

  • New Umbraco package – uSecureFiles, secure your file downloads

    15 April 2011

    In it’s simplest form, this project will allow you to serve files that are outside of the website folder structure to an end user – ok in other words you hide the real download location of your files. An example: You are a software company providing widget XYZ that costs $199 to purchase. In the [...]

  • Struggling to find the right developer for your Umbraco project? Simon is now a Certified Umbraco Developer

    14 March 2011

    Finding the right developer for your Umbraco project is all about being assured that the developer you pick has the skills you need. Simon has just qualified as an Umbraco Certified Developer.....

  • Server error in Asp.Net web app, Office / Excel Interop Exception from HRESULT: 0x800A03EC

    03 March 2011

    Do you get an error 'Exception from HRESULT: 0x800A03EC' when calling Excel from C# using Interop - read on to find out how I solved my problem

  • Umbraco Macro to update a logo dependant upon the page being viewed

    11 February 2011

    Heres a simple Macro for umbraco to allow you to update a logo or image on a page depending upon which page you have selected. You can use it to dynamically update images based upon content etc. Here we check to see if the current page nodename is home (i.e. homepage) and set it to [...]

  • New Website Launched

    01 February 2011

    Today I released a new version of the Simon Antony freelance developer website – it now covers all the areas I specialise within and hopefully gives my clients a new portal to visit. Over the coming months, more content will be added, including the ability for recruiters and clients to have their own login area [...]

  • Some useful PHP Functions

    28 January 2011

    Some useful functions for php newbies and rusty heads like me

  • Solution to not being able to use copyright symbol in an Umbraco Macro

    06 October 2010

    Was writing some XSLT for an Umbraco site recently, needed a copyright block in the footer so thought i’d just use the standard © syntax to add the copyright symbol, ©. When I tried to save the file, I got an error that the xml was invalid. Turns out that © is not allowed so [...]

  • Stopping client side validation and postbacks

    28 September 2010

    A couple of ways to stop client side validation firing, especially when using non asp.net controls: Set the onclick event of the image/button etc to be onclick=”return false;” then instead of using the onclick event to fire a method, use the onmouseup event instead i.e. onmouseup =”javascript:do originalmethod(this);” This will stop the page posting back [...]