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Monthly Archive for February, 2006

Media Library items should be checkinnable!

I try to update my blog on daily base, unfortunality at the moment my work doesn’t give me the time to do it. Then you have to do it in the evening, but sometimes is your personal (offline) life more important then your Sitecore blog. At the end of next week, I’ll be back at [...]

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Pipelines: RenderingHack and maybe some improvements – updated

I just found something strange in the saveUI-pipeline: What is this? A fix for renderings? Does it change id’s for example? Or…? Another processor which isn’t activated: The documentation in for this Namespace doesn’t give me an indication what the function ofRenderingHack-class is: I don’t expect it is a real work-around. Then you wouldn’t deliver [...]

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Custom 404 handling with Sitecore / .Net

Ruben, one of my collegues is our usability guru. Well that’s actually not wholly true. Ruben ‘Usability’ Timmerman is next to a usability consultant, a Google-expert, a whizzkid and a cool collegue . The guys of Team Nullsoft write down the strange stuff of each other on their website. I’ll try it to do the [...]

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Sitecore and IE7 – Part II

As you already could see in the screenshot I’ve posted in my last post about IE7. The Sitecore toolbar does actually work in IE7. It still does not contain functionality for 5, but the toolbar is just cool to have . Next to the dropdownlist with the tools to restart IIS, unload applications, and kill [...]

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How to add an admin-feature to your editor menu?

At the moment I’m on daily base mostly at the office of one of our customers. At the office they definitelly miss me . On daily base I get this kind of e-mails or phone-calls: Hi Alex, The people of customer ‘X’ want to acces the recyclebin. Do you know how to configure this in [...]

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Staging module in customised environments

When you use the staging module you definitelly have to watch out for some cases. One of the main problems is that when you change the global.asax the module really is going to dislike you. You’ll receive lots of errors in the logfile. But you can’t do anything which really affect those lines of crap. [...]

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Sitecore and IE7

Woehoe! Microsoft hasfinally released a public beta of IE7 . That good news! I always wait till the first public beta’s because they normally won’t ruin my just installed WinXP . So today I’ve downloaded this new browser.. After a reboot I’m now playing with it. What I definitelly needed to know was: does Sitecore [...]

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Pipelines in 5.1.1, 5.2

Yesterday I actually found out that pipelines like workflow, look much heavier in the latest releases of Sitecore. We run our custom workflow actions and discovert that, undependent of which action was taken, running trough a pipeline took lot more resources and time then before. As a matter of fact I’m trying to figure out [...]

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Training: Not so bad afterall

Yesterday was a kind of second kick-off for a training program with as main goal that a team(read: 2) of engineers are able to create own websites in Sitecore. Or at leats are able to create, modify and delete parts of the current architecture which is created by LECTRIC. Training people isn’t actually the most [...]

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