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It’s quite busy these days… Our team is woking on 3 brand new projects and a sub-site one exsisting project. Two of the new projects are internet sites. One of them is the base-production for a full publication platform of one of our customers, the other one a rebuild of an exsisting site in ASP. [...]

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Started last week with a new Sitecore-based Intranet for a new customer. Renamed the website-name in the sites-section to intranet and from that moment I actually received error after error while publishing. Ofcourse I’ve never looked in the log-files, didn’t had any problem, so why should I ? The error, talking about was the following: [...]

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My collegue Martijn, have pointed me and my collegues on an issue when elivering an file to download to an user. You have to clear the headers as Sitecore is destroying the headers oof the request. Use Request.ClearHeaders(); to make begin building your headers from scratch. Here’s a full download script: string extentie; string mimetype [...]

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It’s quite easy to do some extra Search Optimalisation using Sitecore. My collegues Ruben ‘Usability’ Timmerman and Ulco Wierenga pointed me on the spaces in the URL’s. Google and MSN don’t really like spaces, they rather preffer a dash(-). It’s quite easy to implement this. Add the following line tot the encodeNameReplacements-node: <replace mode=”on” find=” [...]

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Just started playing with FxCop and decided to create a Sitecore-Ruleset. For the people wo don’t know what FxCop actually is: FxCop is an open source tool which makes it possible for people to analyse their code with a single click. FxCop checks your code on the most vulnabilities and the .NET Code Guidelines. A [...]

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Been thinking about dividing content, navigation structures, webediting, etc. for 3 days now. What’s the issue? Well the following thing: Most of our customers definitelly want high advanced news section for example. An easy way to solve this is to create a big storage-house with ‘News-items’ divided in folders which they can create by their [...]

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Well, wasn’t so bad afterall . Did my job and everybody was happy. Now.. How to do this in a way everybody starts from zero and everybody can do the basics in Sitecore at the end of the course. Requirements: – Classroom with for every 2 students 1 computer – Beamer – Working demo-site – [...]

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Finally back from vacation. Definitelly had a good time! Have been in the beautifull landscape of Val Thorens. A place where you can ski and snowboard till half may. It brought some rest and lot of inspiration to start working on lots of new stuff. Hoped to see an announcement about the first beta stage [...]

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