Umbraco Powered

I recently finished a couple of projects that are powered by Umbraco and I thought I would share some details.

The first project is NCEExam.com, an online study and testing system for the National Counselor Exam. This is version 3 of the system and is the first version to run on Umbraco (V4). There were a lot of unique challenges in this project such as securing FLV videos and downloadable content, as well as a custom shopping cart and e-commerce interface.

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Nunchuck Skills: Hack Your Head

There are times when I need to use a particular script or style sheet temporarily and only on a portion of the site. This is especially true with a blog.

For example, if you use SyntaxHighlighter, you could use up to 21 brush scripts, plus the core script and theme style sheet. That makes for a lot of references in the head tag.  That is why I almost always add the following inside the <head> tag in my top lever master page between the style sheet and script references.

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Taming Tag URLs with UrlRewrite

After installing the Blog for Umbraco 4 package by Tim Geyssens, I noticed that the links generated in the tags menu were simply using query parameters instead of friendly URLs. I would prefer them to look like this: /blog/tag/tagname.aspx.

The good news is that Umbraco already uses UrlRewritingNet.UrlRewrite to create friendly URLs, so everything we need to get this working is already in place. After brushing up a bit on regular expressions I came up with the following two step solution.

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Hi, I'm Ricky. You Found Me!

Well, after several years of putting it off, I finally have a blog up and running. My plan is to concentrate on the wonderful language that is C# (and other .NET stuff from time to time) and the last CMS you will ever need, Umbraco.

If you are a .NET developer and you have never heard of Umbraco, you really should check it out. In fact, this entire site is built on Umbraco and a modified version of the Blog for Umbraco 4 package by Tim Geyssens.

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I am a Founder and Managing Partner of Trio Technologies and Trio Merchant Services in Abilene, Texas. I have a beautiful wife and two incredible sons.

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