Peter D.

As promised, here are the 3 sites I (well, the company I work for actually) published with umbraco last month. Took a bit longer than I wanted to write this post, but hey, its here now ;-)

Note: all sites are in Dutch language only.

www.cosmo.nl

www.teamkapsalon.nl

www.hizihair.nl

The last one was allready running on umbraco for a year, but it needed a change in lay-out. I also upgraded the version of umbraco used. All sites are using webservices to maintain 'salons', meaning, addresses and opening-information is stored somewhere else and on change of that data, the data on the site is changed also. All in all, I like the sites.

Funny, since I upgraded this blog and moved to use Ajax for comments, I don't need a captcha.
I noticed that still my blog gets a number of spam-attacks per day. But, it gets refused because the viewstate doesn't match. So, for now I don't do anything about it, because mainly what I see is automated post-attempts that post directly to a page without viewing it first. Therefor, they have no viewstate, thus the post gets rejected.

So, after not updating this blog for quite a while, I redid quite a lot.
Not posting here didn't mean I didn't use umbraco. Another post about that will follow.
After messing around with Visual Studio 2008, I started using the latest source from Codeplex. Ruben can verify I did quite a lot of debugging on the mySQL version ;-)
Back to topic.

Today I stumbled upon a site about the usage of Prototype.
Later this evening I read some articles on the site and I was impressed by the explanations and usage of Prototype!
Just thought to archive for myself and maybe it can be of use for someone else too ;-)

http://thinkweb2.com/projects/prototype/

Jesper created a nice example on how to send email from within xslt. I put it here mainly so I could find it back later easily.

He posted this on the forum.

I recently installed IE7. There was an issue with the localLinks, but that is solved. Today I ran into another problem. If I used the treePicker, it would give me a javascript error:  this.xmlHttpObject.readyState is Null or not an object.

After a bit of testing I found that the problem was in IE7 itself. I solved it by disabling the 'Enable native XMLHTTP support'. After I did that, the treePicker started working just fine like it should. I found 1 person on the umbraco-forum that had experienced the same, but I bet there will be more that are using IE7.

Anyone of you who uses IE7 has come across it, in Umbraco, localLinks are not made correct. See here for deails. IE7 tries to think for you, but it messes up the { and } characters. To fix it, do this: Download the file and place it in your umbraco/js/ folder. Clear your caches, ashtrays and whatever needs cleaning and then try again. Woohoo, it works!

UPDATE: Apparantly it only works the first time a link is created. When you edit a page with a link on it, it breaks again. If interested, leave a comment and I'll send you a slightly modified umbraco.dll which also checks for the locallinks generated by IE7.

Just for so I could find it back later on when I need it, I added this. Nevertheless, you might find it usefull as well. This descibes in 10 steps how to start sending out newsletters.

The websitewizard that can be downloaded from the umbraco website tends to put all properties on the Properties tab in umbraco 2.1.5.

I altered the zip-file a bit so it will place all the properties in the right place again. This only works with 2.1.5! So if you have an older version of umbraco, do not use this! Download the file here.