A selection of scripts and techniques to make your front end development easier

I’ve just added another 11 sites i’ve worked upon or been involved in – you can see them in the portfolio. Covers technologies such as PHP, Asp.net, Umbraco, Kentico and more…

In it’s simplest form, this project will allow you to serve files that are outside of the website folder structure to an end user – ok in other words you hide the real download location of your files. An example:…

Finding the right developer for your Umbraco project is all about being assured that the developer you pick has the skills you need. Simon has just qualified as an Umbraco Certified Developer…..

Do you get an error ‘Exception from HRESULT: 0x800A03EC’ when calling Excel from C# using Interop – read on to find out how I solved my problem

Heres a simple Macro for umbraco to allow you to update a logo or image on a page depending upon which page you have selected. You can use it to dynamically update images based upon content etc. Here we check…

Today I released a new version of the Simon Antony freelance developer website – it now covers all the areas I specialise within and hopefully gives my clients a new portal to visit. Over the coming months, more content will…

Some useful functions for php newbies and rusty heads like me

Was writing some XSLT for an Umbraco site recently, needed a copyright block in the footer so thought i’d just use the standard © syntax to add the copyright symbol, ©. When I tried to save the file, I got…

A couple of ways to stop client side validation firing, especially when using non asp.net controls: Set the onclick event of the image/button etc to be onclick=”return false;” then instead of using the onclick event to fire a method, use…