Month: March 2018
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Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) is one geeky goodie
I must admit when I first used it, VSTS can be overwhelming and scary, especially to non-technical people. Here in Australia, Atlassian products are very popular. And I can understand why. The combo of Jira, Bitbucket & Confluence is very good. However, with what VSTS has become now, being an all-inclusive platform that caters for…
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SEO – When your webpage suddenly disappears on Google SERP
Today, I noticed one of the pages in my client’s site disappeared from the Google SERP. It was on the 2nd page of Google for a specific search keyword, but it can no longer be found anywhere in the SERP at all. When I do the trick of searching for “site:{DOMAIN_URL_HERE}”, all other pages in…
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Azure Virtual Machines – Benefits of developing in the Cloud
It’s now over a year since I started developing on Azure Virtual Machines and while it’s not cheap (more on this later), it’s hard for me to go back and develop locally on physical machines. In this post, I’ll go over the advantages of owning and developing on a Virtual Machine hosted in the cloud.…
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How to generate an Umbraco XML Sitemap dynamically
Today, I implemented an XML sitemap in my Umbraco 7.7.9 installation. Here are the things I had to do: Create a Sitemap document type Create a Sitemap macro Create a rule for IIS URL rewriting of the sitemap.xml Author the Sitemap content page Sitemap document type My document type involves two properties which will allow…