I am just back from a two week break in the sun, the batteries are recharged and there is plenty of work to be done!

I just discovered that my basic SEO strategy has paid off - Web Garden is on the first page of Google search results after three short months! And the search phrase? Umbraco developer of course!

I recently wanted to upgrade an existing site to v4 of Umbraco to eventually take advantage of the inline editing feature. Here's how I got on, with some useful tips if you are planning something similar yourself.

Last week Web Garden went to Copenhagen again to attend the Level 2 Umbraco training course to become an Umbraco Certified Professional. Here are some of the gems that came up over the two days.

As I already posted here, it's possible to use Windows Live Writer to update your Umbraco content, and I've just set it up to allow me to update my blog.

It's a bit last minute, but also something that I've been wanting to do for a long time. Next week I'm off to Copenhagen to attend the Umbraco Developer Level 2 course with none other than Niels Hartvig, the man who created the Umbraco project.

Sometimes you want to have a normal .aspx page in your Umbraco site that you would like to function as a normal page (i.e. doesn't get served by Umbraco). If you do, don't forget to update your umbracoReservedUrls setting in the web.config.

A comment on my last post pointed out that perhaps using RenderMacroContent isn't the best way to go when trying to develop reusable xslt code blocks. So here's the same solution without using RenderMacroContent.

RenderMacroContent can be very tricky to get right. You need to escape your macro text perfectly, and even then passing parameters can be tricky. I just spent a couple of hours getting it to work, so I thought I'd post here so next time I'll know how to do it!

I started to have a play around with inline editing, a la Jesper Ordrup's excellent presentation at Codegarden 08. This is a post about my experiences with AutoForm, and how to get around some of the potential issues.

I have been using visual studio 2008 for a while now, and I just found out how to turn on XSLT autocomplete! This is very handy for any XSLT development, but especially nice for Umbraco developers.

In order to 'claim' a blog as your own in Technorati, you need to create a post on your blog to prove that you control it. Well, this is mine. Technorati Profile

This is the last of the series of blog posts about the Umbraco UK Developer Meeting in London last Friday. It is kind of like the results of an Umbraco focus group, and details how we think about Umbraco, what we like, what we dislike, and also a number of confusing issues and unanswered questions that we have about Umbraco. I'm sure this is one to kick-start some interesting debate!

During the course of the day lots of handy nuggets of information were traded back and forth across the table. I've tried to pull these into a single post, here, to save you from trawling through the minutes to find them.

This is a walkthrough of what we covered during the day, from start to finish. Disclaimer: does not include details of what was discussed in the pub over a long lunch, or after the meeting had finished!

On Friday last, ten of us met up at the SAS offices in London for the first Umbraco UK Developers Meeting. I came away with lots of notes, and this is my introductory blog post about the day.