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My thoughts and feelings around the 6th UK Umbraco Festival in London, which gets bigger and better every year. A truly inspiring event and a great reflection of the Umbraco community.

If you're an ASP.NET developer then sooner or later you will come across an occasion when you want to manipulate or parse values from the current request's querystring. To make this easier I developed a small C# library that enables developers to easily manipulate the querystring collection.

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.

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.