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A common asked question by customers and colleague-developers is what’s the max size for Media Library items since they are imported in the database in Sitecore 5.3. The answer on this question is quite easy: 16 Mb is the predefined absolute maximum for the RequestLength of a .NET defined in the Web.config:  2385     <!–  2386   [...]

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Based on the tips and trics in this topic on the SDN-fora, I’ve decided that it’s time to give you guys some SEO hints and, directly linked to this topic, I’ll discuss fallback scenarios for titles. First of all, a list of Search Optimalisation Tips in combination with Sitecore. They aren’t new for any experienced webdeveloper, [...]

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As a reaction on this trilogy of articles (in Dutch) or maybe even more my opinion of the (W)CMS world in 2007.  The most important aspects of this changing world (trends) are reviewed from my sight as upcoming Content Management Specialist at LECTRIC. And most important, to participate in the innovative world of which might be called ‘Web 2.0′. The [...]

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Thursday is the day, I normally go to school, but as schools are closed the first week of January, I had a day off. As the boys @ work know it’s allowed to disturb me, they regarly will . They are so kind to ask if it’s allowed, so I can do something about it if I [...]

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Next to the Util-classes in the root-namespace of Sitecore. There are also lots of constants defined in different classes. It are to many of them and describing would definitelly take to much time, so I’ve just capy and pasted the full list with the documentation written by the Sitecore developer self: ArchivedItemFieldIDs – Fields of the [...]

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This post is a good example of how your proces of building software can improve a lot over the year. Where I want to talk about is quite simple: retrieving your data from Sitecore using C# / VB or any other .NET-enabled language. The problem:Customers are never happy when websites do not work at all. [...]

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Because of the GMail vulnerability the XML vs JSON discussion has started again. And as you might know, Jakob has implemented JSON in the last version of the Sitecore version because of it’s lots of quicker and it saved him expanding the codebase. Now lots of discussions have started what’s the best and most secure solution. Full [...]

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One of my favorite namespaces is ‘Sitecore’.  It contains so many Util classes I commonly use: DateUtil – Providing parse and serialize functionality for DateTime’s, TimeSpan’s and ISO-Dates.Converting/ParsingDateTime – ParseDateTime(String value, DateTime default)DateTime – ParseDateTime(String value, DateTime default, CultureInfo ci)TimeSpan – ParseTimeSpan(String value)TimeSpan – ParseTimeSpan(String value, TimeSpan default) MainUtil – Environment Util from reflection to [...]

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It is kind of a virus, all those people Tagging each other. Although I haven’t been tagged by myself, when even Scott Guthrie joins the club, the Sitecore community should participate too… I’ll do the kick-off: I was born 20 years ago, in the beautifull city ‘s-Hertogenbosch in the south of Holland. Only the first 4 [...]

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