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Diplo Link Checker is a free package for Umbraco 7 CMS that I developed. It allows an editor to easily check their Umbraco site for broken or problematic links.

If you are a C# developer then you'll be familiar with LINQ (Language-Integrated Query). In this post I provide some examples of how you can perform equivalent functions in JavaScript.

This post explains how you can create C# extension methods to make querying Umbraco's IPublishedContent more intuitive and seamless. It also includes some examples of methods I commonly use in my projects.

Free online and offline tools that can help compact and optimise your CSS stylesheets and JavaScript files. This will ensure your website loads quickly and will also keep your code concise and fast.

In this post I want to show you how to automatically generate an XML (Google) sitemap for an Umbraco CMS site. The code uses the Umbraco API, Linq To XML and a generic .ashx hander to do this in one small file.

In this post I praise the hidden world of foreign-language cinema and TV that we rarely experience in the English speaker world. I also wonder why we see so few subtitled drams on British TV.

Creating a Date Range Picker property editor for Umbraco 7 ("Belle") using Angular JS. The post also includes information on creating a Property Value Converter. Finally there is a download link to the Date Range Picker package on Our Umbraco.

Diplo Trace Log Viewer is an Umbraco developer plugin that allows you to easily select and view the contents of the trace log files that Umbraco generates. The control also allows you to search, order and filter log events (e.g. you may only wish to view Errors or Warnings) - all from within Umbraco 6 or Umbraco 7.