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Recovering Disappeared Folders in macOS Photos

14 May 2026
Dan Lister

Holy crap. A bunch of my Photos albums just vanished. Not deleted by me (as far as I know), not in the trash, not in any folder I could see. Just gone. The photos themselves were still there but they weren't showing up in my "not in any album" smart album either, which meant they were definitely in some album somewhere. I just couldn't find which one. This post is the story of digging them out, with the SQL and the recovery script. If you've...

Install IIS 10 and Register ASP.NET 4.7 with a Powershell Script

17 Nov 2017
Dan Lister

Here is a nifty little script or two to help install IIS version 10 to a freshly setup machine. The below scripts will not only install IIS and ASP.NET but it will register ASP.NET with IIS so that you can run and host your applications....

Using Simple Injector within your Umbraco Controllers

21 Jun 2017
Dan Lister

Holy crap! Has it really been three years since my last blog post? What better way to make a come back than talking about the awesome Umbraco and the equally awesome Simple Injector. Hopefully this post will help you implement your own dependency injection setup within your Umbraco application. Install Simple Injector To install Simple Injector within your Umbraco application, use NuGet to install Simple Injector's MVC package and it's package...

Golf Hole Editor Package For Umbraco

15 Aug 2014
Dan Lister

The Golf Hole Editor package is an Umbraco data type for creating golf hole information. This data type could be used on a golf club website for displaying course information. An editor can configure each hole's tees and it's par, stroke index and distances. The data type can also accommodate for different numbers of tees, holes and pars. You can download the Golf Hole Editor package from our.umbraco.org or via NuGet. Configuration Setup a new...

Using Custom Deployment Scripts with Windows Azure Websites

27 Jun 2014
Dan Lister

Automating deployments is a must when building an application. We've been using Windows Azure Websites to host our Umbraco solutions for a while. We wanted to step away from our TeamCity server as it adds another level of complexity to our deployments. Fortunately, deployment slots and custom deployment scripts have allowed us to remove our build server completely and rely solely on Azure's website deployment service, Kudo. Here are a couple of...