Back Up
Nov 10, 2019
Back in the blogosphere So after a number of years with my blog in hibernation or even of the grid (I know - so sorry), I decided to put my blog back into the great big ether.
What eventually pushed my psyche out of hibernation was my growing frustration with the so-called social media. Years of interacting in walled-gardens getting more and more commercialized on platforms with no regard for my privacy or even personal preferences made me so frustrated that I decided to use some time this Sunday to set up a blog.
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Deploying an Umbraco Website with Webdeploy
Aug 02, 2014
Disclaimer: This is mostly a feeble attempt to hold on to my sanity, after wrestling with Web Deploy a.k.a msdeploy over the course of a week.
Goal of the week was to prepare a web deployment package to deploy an Umbraco website to a server I had no access, which in itself isnt’ a dificult task. Challenge was that I would like to automate setting the correct ACL’s on the destination server as well as create necessary empty folders, preferrably without resorting to empty.
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Move Your DB to Azure
Jan 04, 2014
Yes it’s possible, even fairly simple (once you’ve read this blogpost). But why would you do it?
I’ve written before about an Umbraco development teams database setup, and if you read the blogpost, you’ll notice that I originally arrived at a setup, where every developer has her/his own database.
Since then Azure happened, and if you have access to an Azure account one of the impediments to using a shared database sort of disappeared: Creating a database you can share between developers, doesn’t require you setup a local database server, living on your local network.
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Using Package Restore in Umbraco Projects
Nov 30, 2013
If you often base your Umbraco projects on the UmbracoCms Nuget package, and you’d rather not include the umbraco files in your CVS repository, then this blogpost is for you.
What’s the problem When creating an Umbraco project in Visual Studio, the fastest way to get the website up an running is to start the project by installing the UmbracoCms nuget package provided by the good lads at UmbracoHQ (mostly Sebastiaan Janssen and Morten Christensen I think).
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A HtmlHelper to Help with Cache Busting
Nov 28, 2013
Ever had the following conversation with a client?
Client: “I just checked the website to see the changes you told me you’d deployed, but I can’t see any. Are you sure you actually deployed it?”
You: “Are you looking at it in your browser now?”
Client: “Yes”
You: “Try holding down the Ctrl key and press F5”
Client: “Wait I’ll put down my phone … … Ooooh there it is, what did you do?
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Configuring a nodejs Website on Azure
Nov 15, 2013
Creating and deploying a nodeJS based website to Windows Azure is really easy, and can be done with no other tools than a computer, a local installation of git, a web browser and a text editor. You do it like this:
Download nodeJS
Build your website with node
Download and install git
Create a git-repo over your website and commit the files to it
Go to the Windows Azure website and create a new website, based on a local git-repo
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Umbraco Package Files and VS
Sep 17, 2012
As described in my earlier posts we at Twins Solutions, aim for a development environment, that enables automatic creation of deployment artifacts (the files we need to deploy to the server to make thewebsite run). With this aim in mind handling normal Umbraco packages can be a challenge.
Normally an Umbraco package, is added to a website by adding it through the package manager in the Developers section of Umbraco.
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Sony Bravia TVs and high quality jpgs
Jan 25, 2012
I recently bought a brand spanking new Sony KDL-40HX723 Bravia TV. This TV has en ethernet connection, it’s DLNA compatible and has enough multimedia functions to make me fairly sure I won’t need a Media Center PC attached to it.
One of the things I was looking most forward to was browsing the pictures we’ve stored on our local Synology disk station, that functions as a media server for our pictures, home videos and music.
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Using MSBuild in Umbraco projects
Dec 04, 2011
In this blog post I’ll explain how MSBuild can be used in the .csproj file of the Web application to set up a deployment process, we can use both when doing development on our local machine, and when deploying the finished website to test and production environments.
This post relies on the concepts around config transforms I explained in my previous blog post. Using these concepts we can automate the deployment process in a way, that makes all developers on your team able to make the deployment artifacts for test and production environments just by selecting a solution configuration and doing a build.
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Umbraco Visual Studio Transforms
Nov 20, 2011
In my last blogpost I outlined some of the problems connected with doing team development on Umbraco Projects. A lot of the problems had to do with sharing or not sharing the database the project is running on. Some problems also stems from needing to have a solid setup procedure, as well as a solid deployment procedure.
In the post I’ll try to outline and explain how we setup Umbraco Web Application projects at Twins.
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