MailChimp.Net.Core.MailChimpException: akamai_503

We hit an interesting error the other day that doesn't appear to be covered much on Google, so hopefully, this helps someone else.After sustained attacks on one of our busier sites, we started getting…

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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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No basket exist for the current user when checking out in uCommerce

Stupidly this had me going for a while today so this is partly a post to act as a reminder not to do it again but also hopefully to help someone else from doing the same. A site we are working on was…

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Illegal characters in path in MVC view

I initially thought that this was an issue with Umbraco's implementation on MVC but it turns out that if you have an IEnumerable property on your view model then you may get an error similar to the…

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How not to do a "How did you hear about us" selector

A frequent request we get when creating a checkout process or contact us form is to include a "How did you hear about us" select list. They generally end up looking like this one I screenshot from…

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Clean out unused media items from Umbraco media folder

When uploading some new media items for a client today we noticed that if you selected "Remove" before saving, it doesn't actually remove the file from the FileSystem. Having a quick look around the…

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