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André Santos

André Santos
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Solutions Architect and tech lead at Create IT. Main topics of interest include software architecture design, cloud-first solutions and distributed systems.

Straight A’s in WebPagetest with Umbraco

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Before launching a new website, there's a checklist I go through, to make sure that everything is ready. One of the items in my...

Redirecting 2 domains from http to https and non-www to www

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Recently I had to configure some redirections in a website that contains two different domains. Both use https and I want the main site, which...

KendoUI Grid, OData, WebAPI and Entity Framework

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In the latest project I was involved with, there was a need to present database tables data directly in the Umbraco's backoffice, where all...

First ever Lisbon Umbraco Meetup!

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The first ever Umbraco Meetup in Portugal is going to be held this Thursday at Create IT offices in Lisbon. The event filled up...

Umbraco and Donut Output Cache

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Donut Output Caching is a type of output caching where certain parts of a web page are not cached. It's a simple way of boosting...

Umbraco profiler

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Quick tip: If you need to find which part of your Umbraco application is slowing the site down, follow these steps: Set the debug property of the...

Remote resource handling in a MVC website project

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I don't have very fond memories of using .Net resource files (.resx) to handle the translation of static web page elements such as form...

Automatic generation of Umbraco packages with Grunt

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Manually creating Umbraco packages can be tiresome. If you're continuously building upon the same package, doing it manually is wasting time that can be more...

Building an Umbraco 7 backoffice extension – Part III

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The previous post (Part II) showed how to populate the content tree of a custom Umbraco backoffice section. This one presents a way for content...

Building an Umbraco 7 backoffice extension – Part II

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The previous post (Building an Umbraco 7 backoffice extension – Part I), demonstrated how easy it is to create a new section in Umbraco's...