On November 28th Jon and I had our second day of development work on SocialFront for Umbraco. A little overdue but here are our notes from the day.

Day one developing a social networking package called SocialFront for Umbraco. Lots of mistakes were made, tea was drunk, fun was had - and progress was made. Read all about it!

I've just spent a full day working with Jon Carlos on a new open-source social networking platform called SocialFront for Umbraco. It's nowhere near ready for release yet, but I thought I'd introduce the project by talking about the philosophy behind the project and the hopes that we have for its future.

Export your document types to quickly get your changes from your local machine to your live server.

Here's how to use an xslt macro with the TinyMCE richtext editor in Umbraco to allow content editors to easily embed nicely formatted images with captions into their content.

I had a couple of problems on the new Web Garden Umbraco v4.0.1 with Windows Live Writer 2009 integration. In this blog post I describe the issues that I had and the solution to those issues.

For those of you not following @umbraco on twitter (why not?), Niels has just announced that the registrations are open for Codegarden 2009 in Copenhagen!

I usually use an Umbraco Helper class with my user controls to encapsulate any business logic that interacts with Umbraco. Here are a couple of very basic, general purpose methods which you can use to start easily pulling Umbraco data into your user controls.

I am just back from a two week break in the sun, the batteries are recharged and there is plenty of work to be done!

I recently wanted to upgrade an existing site to v4 of Umbraco to eventually take advantage of the inline editing feature. Here's how I got on, with some useful tips if you are planning something similar yourself.