learn. rinse. repeat
In preparation for Umbraco CodeGarden 11 this coming week, ProWorks has created a Commerce for Umbraco Sample Website and Starter Kit that you can download and try out for yourself! This site is similar to the starter site the ProWorks uses to create e-commerce sites.
Included in the sample site:
Umbraco 4.7
Commerce for Umbraco
Blog 4 Umbraco
News
FAQ
Screen Shots:
Files:
Commerce4Umbraco_ExampleSite.zip [...]
The Custom Player allows you to create a customized player that you can add to your website or blog. YouTube provides a nice easy to use one-page wizard to show one of your playlists, favorites, or your own videos.
Here is an example of a custom player that is set to play a specific playlist. As [...]
Try out our ProWorks Twilio demo now: http://twiliodemo.proworks.com
Just created and posted a new ProWorks Redirect Page package for Umbraco on the Our.Umbraco.com package repository:
ProWorks Redirect Page v1.03
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The dll now supports 301 Redirects. After installing the new dll, you will need to refresh your Macro parameters. There is a new property on the UserControl called “Is301Redirect”. If true, then the redirect [...]
I’ve updated the Flickr API Search – XSLT Extension Umbraco package to include the new methods below:
BySet()
ByUserAndTag()
ByUserWithPaging()
ByGroupWithPaging()
ByFreeTextWithPaging()
ByTagWithPaging()
ByUserAndTagWithPaging()
It also has been tested in Umbraco 4.5 and Umbraco 4.0.x
The original documentation has been updated and is located here: Flickr API Search Package for Umbraco
The Umbraco Package page is here: Flickr API Search – XSLT Extension
Enjoy and please [...]
I’ve used gzip compression on Apache/PHP projects before and the results are usually awesome. Especially for static files like CSS and Javascript files that compress to 30% of their original size.
Now that we’re using ASP.NET and Umbraco so much these days I needed to figure out how to get gzip compression working in IIS. [...]
Facebook unlike Twitter and blogs do not publish an RSS feed for us. In addition it’s content is behind a login. This makes Facebook very challenging to monitor. This is a method for generating an RSS feed of content from Facebook utilizing Google search, Open Dapper and topping it off with an RSS reader. Note
The idea [...]
After playing with the iFrame version of the Facebook Like Button Builder I wanted to see what the Javascript SDK version gave me in terms of extra functionality or control. In other words, why would I ever use it over the iframe version which is super-simple?
Get it Into Your Template
I found a great tutorial [...]
One of the newest cool things to come out of the f8 Conference is the Open Graph protocol/API that makes it really easy to get Facebook integrated with your blog or website.
The easiest thing to do right now is to add a Facebook Like button to your site:
You can see one on this blog over [...]
A recent ProWorks project had a need to pull Flickr photos from their community to display on their web site. I had never played with the Flickr API so I thought: “cool!”. I couldn’t find a Flickr Umbraco plugin on our.umbraco.org so I dug in and did it myself.
Thank goodness I found the [...]