Hi, my name is Aaron Powell and I'm an ASP.NET developer working for TheFARM Digital, based in Sydney Australia.

I also am a developer on the Umbraco CMS core development team, as well contribute to several other open-source projects.
Umbraco Level 1 & 2 Certification

Recent Posts

Aug 30 2010

Using HttpCompression libraries and ASP.NET MVC FileResult

An interesting quirk I found from ClientDe

Aug 28 2010

SharePoint feature corrupts page layout

Are your SharePoint features corrupting your page layout?

Aug 28 2010

Testable email sending

Creating an integration test of sending an email

Aug 27 2010

Understanding LINQ to Umbraco

A look what LINQ to Umbraco is and what it isn't

Aug 8 2010
Aug 8 2010

Yes, I LIKE WebForms!

I think ASP.Net WebForms is really quite good, and here's some thoughts on the topic

Jul 10 2010

Building an application with Lucene.Net

A more in-depth look at how to use Lucene for storage and building a simple application

Jul 5 2010

Dynamics Library

A series of helper methods for working with the DLR in C# 4.0

Jul 4 2010
Jun 30 2010

Unit Testing with Umbraco

A wrap up from my talk on doing unit tested ASP.NET with Umbraco

Jun 28 2010

Dynamic Dictionaries with C# 4.0

Using the C# dynamic features to make it easier to work with Dictionary objects

Jun 28 2010

CodeGarden 10

A look at CG10 and just how awesome it was

Jun 16 2010

ASP.NET MVC XML Action Result

An easy way to return XML from ASP.NET MVC

Jun 16 2010

Creating a location service with F# and Twitter

Using Twitter to stalk someone has never been so easy!

Jun 14 2010

ASP.NET MVC Model binding with implicit operators

Using implicit operators in model binding with ASP.NET MVC

Jun 9 2010

Supporting ValueTypes in Autofac

Autofac doesn't support injection of value types as properties, here's how to support it.

May 30 2010

Writing Presenters with F#

This may not be the best idea, but hey, why not, let's writing Presenters with F#!

May 27 2010
May 23 2010

Client Event Pool

Client event pools are great to have disconnected AJAX components on a page

May 20 2010

DDD Melbourne & Umbraco

DDD Melbourne is on during May and I'll be there to speak about Umbraco

May 18 2010

Testing Messaging Within a Presenter

Cross-Presenter messaging is really handy, and here's how to do testing of it when it's in a presenter

Apr 25 2010
Apr 25 2010

Exception thrown when using XSLT extensions

A common problem when writing XSLT extensions

Apr 25 2010

Working with dates and LINQ to SQL

DateTime.MinValue doesn't match the SQL server minimum date. So how do you deal with it using LINQ to SQL?

Apr 25 2010

Why I'm not a fan of XSLT

XSLT has a place in development and Umbraco, here's why I think a lot of people miss understand its place

Apr 25 2010

Dealing with type-casting limitations

Looking at a limit with type casting in .NET 3.5 and how .NET 4.0 can help solve it.

Apr 25 2010

LINQ in JavaScript

LINQ is just a pattern, this shows you how to produce it in JavaScript

Apr 25 2010

Why does this code work?

A neat trick with operators in .NET

Apr 14 2010

An overview of Lucene.Net

Overview and table-of-contents for Lucene.Net articles

Apr 12 2010

ASP.NET WebForms Model-View-Presenter Contrib Project

An overview of WebForms MVP Contrib project

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