.Sitecore

Sometimes you spent to many time on answering a question on SDN5 Forum(sorry for no code highlighting, CopySourceAsHtml won’t install): Sitecore.Data.Items.Item itemToBeRemovedFromMultilist; Sitecore.Diagnostics.Assert.IsNotNull(itemToBeRemovedFromMultilist, “No item selected to remove from multilist”); Sitecore.Data.Items.Item contentItem = Sitecore.Context.ContentDatabase.GetItem(Sitecore.Context.Item.ID); Sitecore.Diagnostics.Assert.IsNotNull(contentItem, “Couldn’t find item in ContentDatabase!”); Sitecore.SecurityModel.Domain sitecoreDomain = Sitecore.Configuration.Factory.GetDomain(“sitecore”); Sitecore.Diagnostics.Assert.IsNotNull(sitecoreDomain, “Couldn’t retrieve the Sitecore domain!”); Sitecore.SecurityModel.UserItem adminUser = sitecoreDomain.GetUser(“admin”); Sitecore.Diagnostics.Assert.IsNotNull(adminUser, “Couldn’t [...]

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It seem that a lot of developers seem to forget that Sitecore has some excellent logging tools which make their life easier. It also gives you the ability to find out about problems which otherwise appear wjhhen the applications is deployed on your production environment. You can find the log-files these days under %sitecoreRoot%/data/logs and [...]

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I came across this post.. an excellent one of the ASP Alliance which describes how you can simply unit-test your (User) Controls. It seems me a bit Visual Studio testing oriented, but it shouldn’t be a problem to run it using NUnit for example. It’s funny to see that something so necesarry takes so much [...]

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A lot of people ask me these days: “Alex, why don’t you recommend more Open Source solutions? You are pretty enthousiast about product like Typo3, Alfresco and Umbraco.”. Well, let me explain. Over the past 3,5 year I’ve worked with approx 8 different CMS’s. I’ve worked on large project and on small non-profit projects. I’ve seen several [...]

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Yesterday I finally looked the videeos of Volta(video1, video 2), an amazing new way of webdevelopment. Well actually not new, it’s more an extremely flexible way of webdevelopment. It’s another product from the hands of Erik Meijer. In the past Erik was responsible for a lot of SQL Server stuff and ofcourse LINQ. These days [...]

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Just came across SubSonic. It seems to be one of the best free .NET OR-mapper around the world. I’m playing with it, but as my Visual Studios are a bit crappy these days(to much bètas) it isn’t going so fast as it should be. Nice to see is that the Sonic-guys spent a lot of [...]

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In september the season is starting again… a seasion full of knowledge sessions and training. I’ve planned a couple of nice sessions until the end of the year so far: September internal knowledgde session: Enterprise Library 3.0: Validation, Policy Injection and AOP Day afterwards: XAML for the Web October internal knowledge session: Sitecore Web.config tuning November internal knowledge [...]

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I just went to my weekly tennis-training, and as usual, we had had drink(Ice Tea ) afterwards. Today I found out that one of my training buddies is a SAP-programmer/consultant. Ofcourse we spoke a lot about what he did and what I do. And not surprising, he works with web applications as well, actually, he [...]

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Yesterday I’ve already started to run trough my bloglist, but left most tech posts for today. I’m going to share the most interesting posts with you by just supplying a link with a description. The information might be odered in the way my bloglist is ordered but you might see a total unordered list of [...]

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Yes I’m back from holiday. I’ll show you guys some pictures later on, but for now I just want to share the following movie on YouTube. This is another movie which shows us how much influence the world of information working has these days. I was extremly surprised by the figures and altought I don’t [...]

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