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autotag-v2
I know its been a while but with a little help from Darren Ferguson, we've released v2 of AutoTags! Whats happened to v1.5 - 1.9? Well because it was such a big rewrite of code, we thought it was worthy of a full version upgrade. So whats new?
AutoTag v1.3 released
New update for my AutoTag datatype. It creates Theres been some pretty hefty updates, mainly to the user interface. As the original UI was, well, rubbish!! Hopefully it looks a bit better anyway. I've also added better notifications when errors occur, as well as adding errors to the Umbraco Log table.
Get Node or Node ID by URL
This article is a short article demonstrating how to retrieve an Umbraco Node via the URL of a page.
Umbraco TinyURL Datatype
I have developed a custom datatype for use with the Umbraco CMS which generates a shortened version of the page. This datatype send the current page tinyurl.com when the page is saved and saves the returned value as a property.
Umbraco problems with displaying Special characters
Umbraco v4.0.1 and possibly others have trouble saving special characters entered in the richtexteditor property. To solve this alter the following settings
Python Twitter API v1.1 Released
I've just made a couple of small additions to my Twitter API wrapper recently. Twitter limits the number of requests that a client can request data, as such if my wrapper was used on a high traffic site for example, the limit of requests could be reached very quickly.
AutoTags Umbraco DataType
One of my biggest irritations as a web developer is populating web pages with content. Ok, it needs to be done, but it can get a little tedious. One of the more tedious tasks are SEO, and page categorisation. So wouldn't it be good if you could automatically generate keywords that relate to the page content, categories for news articles and tags for blog posts?
Python Twitter API v1
As the Twitter phenomenon has very quickly gathered speed, more and more people are trying to access its features. As such, I've started writing my own library which I'm provide for all to use, for free, written in Python