Woo hoo, we're Umbraco certified!

Today was a good day for Mayfly. Today both Janusz and Carl obtained their Umbraco certifications. Hip, hip hooray, well done guys!

Just one more level to go before we can call our selves a certified partner - that comes in January; watch this space.....

The Fly has expanded

Today marks the start of a new era! Mayfly has expanded and is proud to add Mr Carl Sargunar as its newest member of the team. Carl has a wealth of experience in web application development and especially in Umbraco development (a key factor for Mayfly because we love Umbraco so much).

Carl also brings with him a vast knowledge of mobile application development including IPhone and Android development which will no doubt help to strengthen our armoury.

So, welcome Carl - lets get cracking!

We Start Partys

The "We Start Partys" website and social media hub is now live! Mayfly developed the system alongside the bands management to provide a new and unique music and social portal for the bands every growing fan-base.

Mocking Business Logic whilst using Entity Framework

The link illustrates how to mock your business logic and more specifically the ObjectContext when using the entity framework.

Dynamic where clause in LINQ

The link above illustrates how to perform a dynamic where clause in LINQ.

log4net buffer size issues

When using the log4net ADODOTNET Appender to write your log entries to the database, ensure you set the buffer to a useful number. The default is 100, which means the appender will not write the logs to the database until 100 messages have been logged - not very useful for debugging.

Do it like this:




Which I would have knew that at 12:00 this afternoon!

Making log4net run in .NET Framework 4.0

This article illustrates how to get log4net working in .NET framework 4 - which isn't handled out of the box.