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My blog of techy stuff, ranging around SQL (SQL Server, that is), C# and .net, JavaScript and a smattering of stuff about the Orchard CMS (that powers my site) as I get more familiar with it. There's the occasional non-technical post when something is of interest to me that I feel is worth sharing, but they should be few and far between
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Interviewing with Microsoft
As I made reference to in Who you know, versus what you know and My "Hit Refresh" moment, I interviewed with Microsoft a few months ago for an Application Development Manager role. This is a …
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Making my images play nicely with mobile devices
It was pointed out to me earlier today that whilst the carousel on my home page scales and looks right on everything from desktops to mobile phones, the "top-hat" images I've been including in posts …
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Guides to module building in Orchard
Since I added a carousel to my homepage, I've been working towards turning this into an Orchard module so that I can (a) share it with others, and (b) use it as an opportunity to learn how to put …
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It's perfectly okay to say "I don't know, let's research this together."
This tweet:
As a senior engineer or a technical team lead, it's perfectly okay to say "I don't know, let's research this together."
— Celestine Omin (@cyberomin) October 3, 2017
Along with …
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Bootstrapping a carousel onto my homepage
I've been very (very) aware that the homepage of my site is very text heavy, consisting of a list of the most recent blog posts from techy me and cooking me. Over the past couple of weeks I've poked …
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A quick and dirty query to find titles of Orchard blog posts that match criteria in SQL
I noticed earlier today that the number of "structured data" items Googles Webmaster Tools was reporting it had found on my website had dropped. Given that I'm continually adding new recipes (albeit …
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Orchard "shape tracing"
A very quick, and short, post to point to a feature of Orchard called "Shape Tracing" that allows you to work out how a page is composed, and what views you'd need to create (and indeed it will …
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Adding a summary to Orchard blog posts - refining the code
After putting together my post yesterday about adding a Summary field to blog posts, Sébastien Ros dropped a comment pointing out a tidier way to access the Summary property, giving this:
post. …
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Adding a summary to Orchard blog posts
One of the things I like about ths blogs hosted at MSDN is that the blog owner can elect to have something different displayed under each post in a listing, instead of the CMS just taking the first N …
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Who you know, versus what you know
I've recently been reflecting on the past, no bad thing as there's a lot that can be learnt from looking back to what's gone before, after all there's that oft mis-quoted aphorism attributed to …