This Halloween, I decided to tell a terrifying tale of my most harrowing travel experience in over ten years. I got stuck in Ecuador because of CoVID, so I decided to spend this entire year traveling around the country. After a little more than…

Real experience from a twenty-year veteran in the industry instead of contrived figures about how they “got rich in a couple of months” or whining about how it is impossible, usually from some college kid living in his parents’ house. I was spurred into writing this article by the people…

Today in Ecuador, I was speaking my usual Spanglish with a friend and asked her, “Tienes un penny (Do you have one cent)?” Everyone looked at me with a mixture of disgust and humor, and I couldn’t figure out why. Later, I realized it sounded like “Tienes pene” (do you…

I recently spent some time reacquainting myself with the language I first cut my teeth on twenty years ago and even got recertified again. The last time I held a ColdFusion certification, it was still owned by the Allaire brothers (almost 20 years ago). :D ColdFusion is an excellent language…

Every day, we have a finite time to accomplish the many tasks that each of us has on our plates. I own a software development company, and I field dozens of calls and countless emails per week from people (usually vastly under-qualified) begging me to pay them to cause me…

In our last installment of this series, we learned about the different kinds of controllers that Umbraco provides us. Now we will delve into user and member management, and how to code member authentication & authorization into your Umbraco website. Security

In our last installment, we learned about the basics of Umbraco and what is new in Umbraco 8. Now we are going to delve into coding basic functionality and making our code as modular as possible. Before we delve into the code, let’s talk a little about the different types…

Umbraco has changed tremendously since I started working with it in version 4 back in 2013. In this series, we are going to delve deep into Umbraco from the basics of creating your first site to writing plugins and customizing the backend of this wonderful ASP.Net MVC based CMS. Intended Audience This…

I wanted a quick and efficient way to convert all of my site’s images into WebP format, but couldn’t find anything for Windows that tickled my fancy, so I wrote a quick script to do the heavy lifting for me. The first thing that you’ll want to do is download…