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Hello and welcome to the CogBlog. Here you'll find the (mostly) informative ramblings of the Cogworks staff on life, the universe and everything Umbraco.

Adam Shallcross 0 Comments Tags: umbraco

Employee no 1 is leaving the building…

When Dan, Tim and myself started The Cogworks back in January 2006, we were 3 blokes in a basement on Drury Lane, London.

We managed pretty successfully for a year or so, but then as with all small companies the workload and number of clients put us in that most ...

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Organising an Umbraco Festival

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Ismail Mayat 0 Comments Tags: Examine, lucene

Examiness hints and tips from the trenches part 10 - Document writing redux

Just a quick post showing another use for the document writing event. When it comes to working with Umbraco Examine I take the lazy 'index all' approach when it comes to fields. So in my ExamineIndex.config I do not have IndexUserFields node therefore Examine will add all the fields.  However once or twice ...

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Ismail Mayat 0 Comments Tags: azure

Review of Stacked 13

Yesterday I attended my first Stacked event. This is the second such event in the Northwest the common theme for the day was Azure.

I have to say I was very very impressed with the event. The venue John Moores university and the quality of the speakers and topics discussed ...

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Ismail Mayat 0 Comments Tags: log4net, logging, umbraco

USignalrLog4net is dead long live LiveLogger

I blogged recently about an Umbraco package I created USignalRLog4net this project has now been renamed to LiveLogger. It does almost exactly the same thing as USignalRLog4net but with some enhacements you get it from our.umbraco and you can view a quick video on YouTube.

Enjoy!

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