Longest Company Names for Companies in the Financial Markets

When designing websites or mobile apps it's important that you allow for the extremities in the content to avoid breaking your design -even more so if you're dealing with a data website such as an…

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What is browser testing and why does it take so long?

What is browser testing and why does it take so long?

Your design is built, content loaded, media is in and your site looks great on your computer -you’re ready to launch so why the sudden hold up with browser testing and why is it going to take so long?…

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Could not load file or assembly xxx or one of its dependencies

We hit the fairly common issue of not being able to resolve a dependency the other day and tried all the usual resolutions -checking that the version numbers across all projects match, check the…

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Sitefinity project stuck at warming up

We've had the opportunity recently to start working with the enterprise grade CMS Sitefinity in a little more depth than our previous Ucommerce consultancy which has been a welcome break. It's been…

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Super fast internet over 3G/4G... without broadband

With more of us working from home these days, getting decent broadband speeds can be tricky -especially if you work out in the countryside like we do however with a little time and money it doesn't. Here's how to get speeds of 20MB+ in the middle of a field.…

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Error running Ucommerce scratch indexer Illegal duplicate key definitions

We hit an interesting issue indexing the Ucommerce data the other day which had us going for a while.It turns out that when upgrading Ucommerce to 7.0.6, some new payment providers were added to…

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Design with data -how to get the longest/shortest product/category name from Ucommerce

Make sure your final Ucommerce e-commerce site looks as good as the designs by using real data…

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Turn negative reviews to your advantage

Turn negative reviews to your advantage

Nothing reassures a new customer quite like the experience of an existing customer, but its not always roses and that's ok if handled sensitively. No one likes a negative review, especially after…

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Can't register services with LightInject in Umbraco - The non-generic method 'Composition.Register(Type, Lifetime)' cannot be used with type arguments

We've generally used Autofac as our go to dependency injection container in Umbraco but we like to keep projects as lean as possible so wanted to start using LightInject for Umbraco V8 projects but…

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Delete all products and orders from Ucommerce

Here's an updated script to delete all the products, orders and any other testy type data from Ucommerce. This is an updated version of my previous script to delete all product and order data from…

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