Jamie Howarth

On bipolar and Asperger syndrome, part 2

On Monday after a poorly-written first draft (which made it sound like I really wanted to tell my life story), I quickly threw together a piece for Creative Bloq, talking about mental health. READMORE

Responsive web design: a response

Earlier today, Martin Beeby, a developer evangelist over at Microsoft, posted a blog about how responsive web design is the solution to developing rich web experiences across a multitude of platforms READMORE

Multi-discipline

I've been having some great conversations with a few developer friends lately, as we all hate having to "re-pave" our machines every time we upgrade hardware, or our laptop dies... READMORE

Windows 8 previewed at BUILD Conference, Anaheim, California

So Microsoft's BUILD conference kicked off today with the keynote presented by Steven Sinofsky, VP of Windows and Windows Live.As a developer by trade, I was excited as heck by the keynote... READMORE

The <xsl:key /> element (and why it rocks)

XSLT is fantastic for simple data structure queries - like WHERE and ORDER BY clauses. But what about the XSLT equivalent of DISTINCT?Fortunately, there's a great answer to that - <xsl:key />.Why READMORE

Happy birthday to me... bye-bye spam

As a lot of you know, I've been busy refactoring Blog4Umbraco over the last few weeks and months, trying to drastically improve it's fortunes to support lots of new features. READMORE

Fixing the "No document exists with Version '00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000'", once and for all

I had a very frustrating situation the other day, whereupon trying to delete nearly 300 nodes resulted in this pleasant error when trying to empty the Content Recycle Bin in an Umbraco instance.After READMORE

Publish and unpublish dates in Umbraco

Sometimes the best answers are the simplest.Umbraco has two really useful little fields - "Publish at" and "Unpublish at" - that are properties for every node. They're used for automatically pushing READMORE

Upgrading Windows Server 2008 x86 to x64

OK, I use the term "upgrade" a bit loosely here. There is no upgrade path from 32-bit to 64-bit versions of any edition of Windows, period. However, you can preserve your Active Directory domain, DNSdevops READMORE

First Umbraco project

I've almost finished my first Umbraco project, which is probably the most awesome CMS I've ever seen.In case you've been under a rock (which, after having rooted around this thing, I am starting to READMORE